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RSS Cloud Is Exciting News

In: web2.0|wordpress

8 Sep 2009

I’ve always been a big fan of real-time information on the internet. Ever since the early days of IRC and Usenet, I would prefer IRC since the entire experience was live and real-time. Usenet and forums had the delay factor.

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Yesterday, I read about the decision WordPress made to support RSS Cloud. What is RSS Cloud? It’s essentially modifications to the existing RSS specification to enable real-time publishing via RSS feeds. That’s my take on it anyways. That means if you use a supported RSS reader like Dave Winer’s River2 or Lazyfeed, you’ll receive a “instant” notification when a RSS cloud supported blog is updated.

This blog is supported by PubSubHubbub via Feedburner, but I’ve installed the WordPress RSS Cloud plugin anyways.

Why is all this exciting?

Those who claim RSS is dead don’t realize their newfound love for Twitter would be moot if it were not for RSS. Breaking news on Twitter comes from two main sources in my mind: websites and personal experience. For tech news, I doubt there is much personal experience for news unless there’s a conference or an event. Most juicy, 0-day news comes from websites. These websites often have a… wait for it… RSS feed. The race to post tech news first on Twitter usually stems from who can refresh their RSS reader the fastest.

This is exciting because RSS has been empowered to update us all in real-time and have less dependence on others reposting and retweeting stuff they found first. Tools like LazyFeed are leading the way in this charge and more will come thanks to open standards.

RSS is hardly dead, it’s becoming more useful.

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  • http://haroldcabezas.tumblr.com/ Harold Cabezas

    Hi Bwana. I completely agree. I think the whole ‘RSS is dead’ vibe that has been circulating online lately was specifically made up to incite argument/conversation/create content. Like you said, nothing could be further from the truth as RSSCloud.org shows us. As you correctly state, most information comes from RSS feeds.

    I guess this makes me a tech conspiracy theorist. LOL

  • http://haroldcabezas.tumblr.com Harold Cabezas

    Hi Bwana. I completely agree. I think the whole ‘RSS is dead’ vibe that has been circulating online lately was specifically made up to incite argument/conversation/create content. Like you said, nothing could be further from the truth as RSSCloud.org shows us. As you correctly state, most information comes from RSS feeds.

    I guess this makes me a tech conspiracy theorist. LOL

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  • Peter Smith

    i’d say that RSS and Twitter are both closer to protocols than web apps.
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    Internet has play good role to providing instant news. I also big fan of this.

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    What more we can get with RSS cloud?

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    What more we can get with RSS cloud?

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