Micro Persuasion: For All its Benefits, RSS Threatens News Sites

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

For All its Benefits, RSS Threatens News Sites

Infoworld's Matt McAlister: "The day InfoWorld's top news RSS feed received more requests than our home page, I started thinking a frightening thought - RSS is doing to the Web today what the Web has been doing to print for the last several years. We have disintermediated our Web site by offering our news in an easier to access format...again."

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