RE: "Next-Generation" Tools

I hope the book[1] is more up-to-date then the blurbs that are on the Amazon
page describing it... On the Amazon page it says:

"Google tracks 1.4 million RSS feeds, and there are approximately 250,000
additional feeds powered by Atom, a newer protocol"

These numbers are vastly smaller then the total number of RSS and Atom feeds
at just ONE single site -- LiveJournal[2]. As of this morning, LiveJournal
claims to serve 5,076,553 feeds of which 2,118,248 are considered "active"
(i.e. they had recent updates). All of LJ's feeds are available in both RSS
and Atom. If you add to the LiveJournal numbers the tremendous number of
feeds served by Google at Blogger/Blogspot, the AOL Journals Blogs, the
Typepad blogs, etc. you get vastly more than 250,000 Atom feeds without even
considering all of the non-hosted blogs and those blogs hosted by smaller
providers.

At PubSub.Com, we currently monitor between 3,000,000 and 6,000,000+ feeds
(depending on how you count the numbers. We only quote "active" feeds on our
site.)[3]... Technorati.com claims to monitor something like 4,000,000
(although they don't indicate what number of those are "active" feeds...).

There are many, many more feeds in the wild then indicated by the blurb on
the book's page at Amazon. Hopefully, those numbers will be updated before
the book actually gets published.

		bob wyman


[1]  "Beginning RSS and Atom Programming"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764579169/qid=1099751292/sr=8
-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-2826897-4765551?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 
[2] http://livejournal.com/
[3] http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/main/2004/11/we_might_monito.html




 
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