Commentary from Alan Levine referring to David Galbraith's: How to make RSS commercially viable. Levine comments, "there are those that can only look at a useful communications technology and only rub their hands in glee trying to figure out how to squeeze money from it. There was the glory of the web, and now we have non-stop pop-up ads. There was direct connections via email, and now we are littered by spam. Next stop? The vultures are beginning to hover over RSS." Quite right. Now commercialization typically requires two prongs: first, the insertion of commercial content into the medium, an essentially benign step; and second, the exclusion of competing free content from that same medium, an essentially hostile step. It is the latter we must watch for: signs of attacks against the use of RSS for the free distribution of information. Any day now; wait for it.
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