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Written on May 4, 2007, and categorized as Secret and Invisible.
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I keep hearing things like, “RSS driven content is 10% of the internet”

That means all RSS traffic, so that’s blogs mostly. But these “stats” get used to make wild predictions about the golden future of plodcasting which I find tad frustrating.

I’d like to make some predictions about RSS.

By next Thursday, old-fashioned cash dispensing “hole in the wall” machines will use RSS to deliver money.

The week after next, all the buses in London will be delivered by RSS, meaning that waiting at bus stops will be a thing of the past.

By 2012 the entire Olympics will be delivered by RSS, meaning that the athletes no longer have to turn up. You just select which sportsmen and women you want, and then, when there is another competition, you watch them test their strength and fitness without them having to actually attend.

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