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%?

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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!