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The Future of RSS is Not Blogs
notepage writes "Blogs vaulted RSS into the limelight but are unlikely to be the force that sustains RSS as a communication medium. The biggest opportunities for RSS are not in the blogosphere but as a corporate communication channel. Even now, businesses that were initially reluctantly evaluating RSS are beginning to realize the power and benefit of the RSS information avenue. The inherent capacity for consumers to select the content they wish to receive will be the driving mechanism for keeping advertisements to a minimum and content quality consistent."
No, it was going to be true push. RSS only uses a polling mechanism because of the thousands of idiots who think NAT and firewalls are a good idea. There are protocols in place for real push tech, and it would work better than the current RSS model.
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I'd say anyone who thinks they're a good idea for home users is an idiot. I don't have enough experience in corporate networks to judge there.
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Yes. Why do you need them? Either because your TCP stack has a bug, which given how simple they are means you would have been able to get a better one if you had any sense, or because you're running unnecessary services, which means either you're an idiot who turned on a bunch of unnecessary services, or you bought an OS that ships with a bunch of unnecessary services on, in which case you're an idiot for buying it.
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No, but being NATed is still a bad idea, and you should expect to have reduced functionality on the second comptuer.
Am I an idiot because I want to keep myself from being infected by the literally hundreds of thousands of zombie computers roaming the internet on a constant basis?
No, but you're an idiot if you think NAT or a firewall is the best way to do that.
Firewalls are a good idea. I'm smart enough to configure my firewall to let traffic in, if anyone had a decent push mechanism that I wanted to allow in.
But it takes a load of effort, and shouldn't be necessary. What if it uses random ports?
But where is this "real push tech" you speak of, and does it actually push anything useful to me?
Mostly in research labs, and no it doesn't, because there are so many people with nat and/or firewalls that don't know how to allow traffic through or direct it to their primary box (Nowadays almost every windows user has a firewall running) that such a technology couldn't succeed on the "real" internet. I've seen papers on how RSS could be better as a true push technology (there was even a /. story about it I think) but with so many firewalled "grandmother" users, it will stay nothing more than a research interest.
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