How Much Bandwidth is Required to Aggregate Blogs?

Kevin Burton writes "Technorati recently published that they're seeing 900k new posts per day. PubSub says they're seeing 1.8M. With all these posts per day how much raw bandwidth is required? Due to innefficiencies in RSS aggregation protocols a little math is required to understand this problem." And more importantly, with millions of posts, what percentage of them have any real value, and how do busy people find that .001%?

Comments

Answer: Not much

[Anonymous Coward]

The bandwidth savings from using html+css are hugely exaggerated.

Slashdot is switching to html+css for the front page, but not for any dynamic pages like the one you're on now. Because slashcode was written by totally incompetent programmers, the markup for comment pages is not separated from the logic. Making any changes is therefore a huge undertaking and the people who wrote it are far too busy maintaining the high journalistic standards slashdot is known for to do it.

Wheat from chaff

[StikyPad]

search query: blog -1337 -teh -kewl -hugz -omg -bored -lol -lmao -"can't wait to get my drivers license"

Re:Wheat from chaff

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

search query: blog -1337 -teh -kewl -hugz -omg -bored -lol -lmao -"can't wait to get my drivers license"

Ah! I guess you missed the following blog entry then:

Hi everybody, it's Sunday today and I'm bored. So I guess I'll get on with my homemade engine that runs on water. As you know, it's almost finished, and I expect it to put out as much as 1337 horsepower. The reliability of the motor should be good too: my friend, Ray Kewl in engineering, said it should provide well beyond 10,000 TEH (total engine hours).

Update: the engine is in the car, and it runs! on nothing but water! OMG I'm so happy! check the pictures and the diagrams to build your own. I can't wait to get my drivers license renewed so I can take it for a spin!