From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2004-11-13T16:14:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] RSS: Howto get started?


On Nov 13, 2004, at 2:06 AM, Curt Hibbs wrote:
>
> Well... I didn't really like Gush all that much, so I just uninstalled 
> it.
> My favorite reader for Windows is still RSS Bandit
> (http://www.rssbandit.org/).
>
> Curt

I tried out Gush (for OS X, I think it's mostly the same thing) and 
didn't like it either. Its polling model is quite interesting, though: 
It opens a Jabber connection to the PubSub server so it receives 
updates from PubSub instead of asking for them periodically. Bob Wyman 
(PubSub CTO, also I know him since he sits on the board of the 
non-profit I work at) writes about this issue quite a lot on his own 
blog. POP clients get updates every few minutes, and we should be able 
to get the same update rate with feeds like RSS and Atom.

F.