<div><a href="http://www.scripting.com">Dave Winer</a> is wrong on this one.  He's saying there's no way to do what RSS is doing without polling.</div> <div> </div> <div>RSS is based on an aggregator connecting to every server that the reader is subscribed to every half hour or so and getting a fresh copy of the RSS feed.  This is wasteful, and it forces the publisher of the content to pay for the bandwith required for people to read it.</div> <div> </div> <div>Usenet is a different model, but at a lower level (where it's all about the invidual articles posted), it's doing something very similar to what RSS is doing:  Letting a user post something, and letting millions of other users read it.  And it's doing it without polling, and without putting any burden on the person writing the material.</div> <div> </div> <div>Usenet would be an excellent model for making RSS scaleable.  But hey, NNTP isn't XML-RPC so it's not cool.</div> <div> </div> <div>Jabber would be another model that would work BTW - a publisher posts a new article and then sends a message, which gets propagated by a network of connected servers to anyone that's interested.  No polling involved at all.</div> <div> </div>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:04 GMT