> ...many of these challenges are ultimately problems with the underlying protocol itself... > ...It’s an exhausting experience wading through articles from th

> ...many of these challenges are ultimately problems with the underlying protocol itself... > ...It’s an exhausting experience wading through articles from the style and food sections just to run into the latest update on troop movements in the Middle East. > Some sites try to get around this by offering an array of RSS feeds built around keywords. Yet, stories are almost always assigned more than one keyword, and keyword selection can vary tremendously in quality across sites. Now, I see duplicate stories and still manage to miss other stories I wanted to see. None of this is a problem with the protocol. The protocol just publishes a list of stories. If people want a feed of the "most important" stories, you can build that. You can let people build their own personal feeds based on tags, popularity, or any set of rules imaginable, and you can de-dupe the items in that feed. I used to subscribe to a podcast feed on The Conversations Network (no longer operating) which they let me personalize to include a mix of episodes from a variety of their podcasts. That was RSS. RSS has nothing to do with how you determine which stories to publish on which feed.