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Why RSS Feeds are a bad idea

by DavidAkin on Thu 08 Apr 2004 10:35 PM EDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

I love RSS feeds. I love the idea of them. (I think I may have mentioned this before but I'm using the wonderful NetNewsWire on my Macs and the pretty darn good News Gator on my Windows 2000 box as my aggregator tools). I wish the folks who send me press releases would use RSS feeds. I wish more companies would publish their corporate stuff as an RSS feed.
Antone Roundy, thought, has a different view:

Are you sick and tired of people telling you to publish a newsfeed? I sure am. So today, I'm going to give you a break and discuss why you shouldn't publish a newsfeed. Feel free to use these arguments to tell people to shut up and mind their own business"

Antone makes some good points. Not good enough that you should be dissuaded from publishing an RSS feed but there are some things he talks about that prospective RSS feed publishers ought to consider.

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