| Excerpt from: Into the MyST |
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| January 14, 2005 | | As RSS begins to emerge on every corner, IT and content management groups will have to adopt new tools to manage the numerous feeds and sources that generate those feeds. | The issue of scalability will surface quickly as companies attempt to roll out feeds that have wide appeal. Imagine an Internet where we poll for eveything? "It's one thing to do this for a nation of 37 million people. It's another thing for a nation of 300 million," said Cory Jenkins, an IT specialist in the NASS Marketing and Information Services Group. "But we're doing better." Additional issues that will have to be addressed include security (not all feeds, or feed items should be seen by all subscribers). |
|  | RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy | | When the little-known National Agricultural Statistics Service last week began offering RSS feeds of some of its news, it was the latest sign that the technology, which allows anyone to subscribe and automatically receive dynamic content on their computers, has hit the mainstream. | | http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65702,00.html |
| | RSS Adoption in Government | | Governments have recently begun to understand the benefits that RSS provides. However, there are some significant hurdles that must be mastered. | | item/18739 |
| | Big, Hungry, Orange RSS Alligators | | The swamp is teaming with orange alligators as far as the eye can see, and they're all hungry. And in the middle of the swamp, perched on a small rock outcropping with open crates labeled 'Bandwidth Sandwiches', we pitch them in as fast as possible; our only hope is that the alligators will eat us last. | | item/28885 |
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