More recent comment by Dave Winer on the issue of RSS overwhelming the internet if the so-called standard of checking no more than once an hour is not honoured.
I wonder...if there is no general acceptance of his late in the day plea for using these apps no more than once an hour, isn't the question now something like "have Dave and friends really inadvertently released the slowest acting but most devastating virus the web has ever seen"? I know my aggregator of choice, Abilon, churns every ten minutes [Edit.: "bad, bad Big Al"]. Who is he once he has unleashed the monster to say this:
...the vast majority being good network citizens and accessing it only once an hour...Wouldn't it be better to order the recall and fix the dang thang before this goes any further? Can't we stop the syndication insanity?!?!
Comments
Alan - December 17, 2003 11:11 am
More medicine being poured on the sick patient.
Alan - February 3, 2004 10:19 am
This is an interesting bit of gossip about Dave Winer's RSS validator. I don't really care as I think wide-spread RSS is something of a mistake (I deleted my aggregator at work yesterday) but it is odd to not that my request to join the moderated discussion has met with inaction. I like to talk and know little but it seems to me that when movements are afoot advocating flooding the internet with greatly expanded packet requests which are essentially useless for the most part - by which I mean most requests from an aggregator receive confirmations that nothing has changed - general access to the discussion is helpful. Someone has to figure out how web site changes can push notice of their presence as opposed to waiting to answer waves of pulling calls as to whether a change has been made.
Alan - February 3, 2004 10:27 am
I lied. The lie of unknowingness. I failed to submit my request correctly . I was wrong. I feel so yahoo groups bad. I scrape the floor over the implications of my inability to join a yahoo group.
Alan - September 9, 2004 8:53 pm
"Six months ahead" Al they call me. Between the virus RSS and the blight of spam, the internet actually has 37.6% less real activity than 21 months ago.