Upcoming rss casualties
Speaking of rss/xml feeds, I realized the other day that I hadn't hit macsurfer.com in over a month, if not more, whereas it used to be every other day or so I'd go and browse the front page and second days news for anything interesting. But without a feed, it's just very inefficient to "go check and see if there's anything new of interest".
I sent them an email, asking for an rss feed to be made available... but after thinking about it I'm not really holding my breath. These types of sites generally make revenue via advertising, by aggregating links to articles of interest at other sites and letting you know when/if they've updated, but offer no real content of their own.
And since, well, the newsreader by and large does 90% of what they do by aggregating all your news into one place. It's not filtering yet (say for mac-oriented things from cnet.com), but that can't be far off at all.
It's going to be interesting to see what/how rss plays out with those sites, I have a feeling there are going to be some casualties.
Posted by drunkenbatmanFebruary 27, 2004, at 08:06 AM
