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RSS Web-Feeds, The Next Big Thing?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the three-years-late dept.

mi writes "Yahoo! carries an Associated Press editorial about RSS-based news feeds, and how they are pushing the spam-ridden e-mail and advertising-ridden web-pages aside and consolidate information from multiple sites. Slashdot itself is mentioned by the author as one of his sources." We've been exporting our headlines practically since the beginning. (note that RSS link in the footer). I still think the problem with RSS is the name. It sounds stupid. Let's all call it 'Speed Feed'. Cheesy rhyming will help the non techno elite remember it, and this is a technology that needs to be more widely deployed. (It's also worth noting that Slashdot's RSS feed will have more article contents for subscribers in a few weeks)

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  1. um by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    sorry to break it to you, but you can't use cookies over rss. so good bye all those settings, etc..

  2. The next big thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure. Two years ago.

  3. That's great, Taco. by James+A.+G.+Joyce · · Score: 3, Troll

    Slashdot's RSS feed is really useful. Apart from the fact that:

    • The feed is only updated once every hour.
    • Viewing the feed any more frequently, even by mistake or for just a day or two, bans your RSS reader permanently.
    • It misses out much of the information from the story (and only around 0.2% of Slashdot's readers are subscribers, so your proposal doesn't help).
    • It requires your RSS reader to use the Slash RSS module.

    All in all, this makes it pretty damn useless. Way to go, dipshit.

  4. Why does everyone hate capitalism? by AIX-Hood · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know this is communism central, but what's wrong with someone making a buck? If everyone only uses the RSS feeds for articles, and all sites are stripped down to their meat, no one will make any money and we'll all be shut down. The only answer is that every site has to become subscription based only. Is that what you people really want? Having to shell out an additional 40-50 a month just so you don't have to see an ad every now and then?

  5. *ggl* by toroko_nomura · · Score: 0, Troll

    This page was generated by a flock of uber-robots for tomoko_nomura