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Why I'm not sold on RSS

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

I don't know if I'm the only one but I've just never gotten on with RSS (under the umbrella of which I include Atom too). Nothing I've read about it resolves these open questions:

  • What is RSS for?
  • Why is RSS the best way to do… whatever it is that it's for?

I think that RSS's history lends credibility to the fact that nobody really has the answers to those questions.

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