Tuesday, March 23, 2004

RSSify - an example of the cost of novelty "Web Services" RSSify was pretty cool. It could turn a non-RSSing blog into RSS for consumption by aggregators. But here's the catch--it caught on so much that it was hogging precious bandwidth (see below). Successful grass roots services (not necessarily limited to XML-RPC/SOAP) face the same problem--becoming the victim of their own success. 23-Mar-04 3:00:30 pm Please stop using RSSify. Unfortunately I can no longer bear the bandwidth cost of running this service so I'm turning it off. There's a mirror at http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/services/rssify/rssify.php. There may be others. RSSify is a rather horrible hack that shouldn't be needed any more. Please ask the owner of the site you're reading (http://handheldlib.blogspot.com/) to change to a system that generates RSS natively such as Blogger Pro or Movable Type. Alternatively consider hosting RSSify yourself rather than using my bandwidth. [RSSify for http://handheldlib.blogspot.com/] Oh, and by the way, note the mention of the Blogger Pro subscription. It's not that expensive for the year. That's why it surprises me so much that Dave Barry's weblog doesn't use the pro version. Come on Dave, if you don't want to fork over the cash, have somebody pay for it. Your readers will thank you.

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