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How Much Bandwidth is Required to Aggregate Blogs?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-than-a-little dept.

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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  1. 9M, or 900K? by slavemowgli · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe it's just me, but TFA seems to be talking about 900k posts a day, not 9 million - and that's not even something that can be explained by a simple typo.

    Deliberate misinformation? Who knows, but it sure shows just why submissions *should* in fact be proofread by editors (yes, even those lazy bums on Slashdot).

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