It would appear that some pundits are worried that blogs, and in particular, RSS – the standard which forms the basis for most blogs – might end up being the next big threat to bandiwdth on the ‘net:
“RSS is broken,” wrote Microsoft technical evangelist Robert Scoble in a Sept. 8 blog posting. “It’s not scalable when tens of thousands of people start subscribing to thousands of separate RSS feeds and start pulling down those feeds every few minutes…Clearly, RSS is losing some of its advantages. More and more sites are not providing full-text feeds.”
Funny, how just a year ago, multimedia, ultra-huge MPEG video files and file sharing were the bane of the ‘net. Now, we’re suddenyl skittish over clear, simple paragraphs of text?