{"id":120,"date":"2004-09-17T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=120"},"modified":"2004-09-17T15:06:37","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T19:06:37","slug":"blogs-the-new-bandwidth-hog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Blogs: The new bandwidth hog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that some pundits are worried that blogs, and in particular, RSS &#8211; the standard which forms the basis for most blogs &#8211;  might end up being <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1032-5368454.html\">the next big threat to bandiwdth on the &#8216;net<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;RSS is broken,&#8221; wrote Microsoft technical evangelist Robert Scoble in a Sept. 8 blog posting. &#8220;It&#8217;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&#8230;Clearly, RSS is losing some of its advantages. More and more sites are not providing full-text feeds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny, how just a year ago, multimedia, ultra-huge MPEG video files and file sharing were the bane of the &#8216;net.  Now, we&#8217;re suddenyl skittish over clear, simple paragraphs of <em>text?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics now contend that blogs may be the new bandwidth stealer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}