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Don't most podcast players use RSS? Isn't this the age of the podcast? :-)

• reshie 8y ago
  yes and other things. its just put to the background. there are others but the concept mostly remains the same. rss is nice as a universal tool to follow things forums/podcasts/news.
• toyg 8y ago
  Like most SGML/XML languages, RSS as a tool for machines is pretty great: server pushes data out, dedicated client (podcast player) retrieves it (often through a directory/aggregator), the user is happy without ever having to know RSS exists. As a document format for chronological, uniform data streams that need to carry human-readable metadata, RSS is just fine. What is unrealistic is the delusion (of which I was complicit, like many) that it could also become the standard way to retrieve most or all information on the planet. There are too many incentives against that.