RSS to clog the web?

[Force Flow]

But some are wondering: What happens when everyone discovers the power of aggregators? Will the Web be able to handle it? In Internet boom-speak, will it scale? ... "Once all the covered wagons show up and an RSS reader is folded into Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Outlook, we're doomed," Murphy said. Here's how it works: Aggregators get their information through feeds that conform to a specification called RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication. The spec breaks up each entry or story on a website by title, description and direct link.

~From Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/news/infostruct...,63264,00.html

[doctorgonzo]

Well, all my RSS feeds keep me from hitting F5 repeatedly at my favorite blogs, so I think that sending the RSS data is less bandwidth-intensive than refreshing an entire webpage.