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November 8, 2003

All the News That Fits, It Pulls

That bon mot above is the conclusion of my article on why RSS news syndication and aggregation is the pull version of push, and why everyone on the planet should go out and start using it. I also say that RSS is "push locally, pull globally," and give some step-by-step on how it works.

Posted by Glennf at November 8, 2003 6:37 AM

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Glenn,

Excellent article, I sent it around to some friends (via email, ironically) to introduce them to RSS. I wanted to point out a small correction. You mentioned Technorati pulls RSS feeds. As far as I know (and I could be wrong about this), Technorati collects its information by visiting the HTML page of the blog, and extracting content and link information from there. There are other sites that do consume RSS, index the blog items as individual documents, and use the data for various applications, like Blogdigger (http://www.blogdigger.com/) and Feedster. This allows content to be associated with metadata provided in the RSS (like links, date, author, topic).

Both methods work really well, in different ways. Thanks for the great article!

Posted by: Greg Gershman at November 19, 2003 8:06 AM

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