RSS Web-Feeds, The Next Big Thing?

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)

Comments

That's great, Taco.

[James A. G. Joyce]

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.