Link: Big Blog in the Sky: Slashdot | Is RSS Doomed by Popularity?.
Are you so sure you still want to try and implement that RSS feed? ;) This Slashdot post provides some commentary that will make Dave Winer (and maybe Bud Gibson) squirm.
This issue has been circulating since last summer among RSS cognoscenti. I think it points toward immaturity of the implementations and use scenarios for the standard. For instance, if you use full-post feeds (ones that contain the whole post like what everyone in this class has), you are essentially having your whole website downloaded everytime someone updates the feed on their feedreader. Now, people like full post feeds because they can just see everything in their feedreader. But, it's a big performance hit.
Now, consider the feedreading model that a feedreader like sage suggests or even firefox's live bookmarks. These are both models where people would get updated links and headlines and then go access the web page from the browser. Personally, I find the second, lower bandwidth, model compelling. You see the person's personal design, thereby not losing the information that comes from formatting and the personal touch. it is also easier to do things like linking and trackbacks since you are at the actual permanent URL of the article.
