Over the last few months there have been a few articles (one here another here) and concerns over RSS and the affects it has on bandwidth use. The concern is that it could grind the net to a halt by having feed readers pole every hour or as little as every fifteen minutes. For pure rss/xml/atom it maybe justified for very popular sites, but the real killer is other digital data, like Podcasts. Geek News has some interesting stats on their first audio feed. Fortunately the innovation related to this type of technology is so rapid that we’ll see the convergence of Podcasting and Bittorrents in the the next couple of weeks. It’s really starting to get fascinating how we’re massively connected.
If you haven’t tried out Podcasting yet, swing on over to iPodder and check out some of the recommended clients, feeds, and have some fun. Adam Curry’s Podcast, Daily Source Code, is especially interesting if you want to understand where the technology sprang from and is headed.
