The Coming Web Revolution

Many people think of RSS as related to blogging. And indeed, blogging platforms use RSS to syndicate content across the Web.

Digression: If you haven’t checked out the blog phenomenon yet, do so today. The blogosphere is growing at a phenomenal rate. Technorati, a blog search engine, reports the number of blogs has doubled in the last five months, reaching 16.4 million blogs in September 2005. For starters, check out www.bloglines.com, www.newsgator.com and www.blogger.com. But RSS extends far beyond blogging. Here’s a grab-bag of some creative non-blog uses of RSS: