Tipping point for RSS

Chad Dickerson: March 09, 2004 Archives:

Ever since we began publishing RSS feeds at InfoWorld, the requests for our home page had always exceeded requests for our Top News RSS feed. Not any more. Over the past several weeks, requests for InfoWorld’s Top News RSS feed have regularly exceeded the requests for our home page. This has been going on long enough now that we’re certain that it’s permanent. I think it’s a big deal.
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Feels like a tipping point to me.

Of course, for those of us lower on the foodchain, the tipping point to celebrate is when user requests outnumber robot requests . . . . .