RSS: Making knowledge populist.

I try to follow security related issues fairly closely and I am fairly surprised to see the delay of at least a day in reporting major issues like Halliburton’s move to Dubai, and even greater delay of up to a week with smaller stories. It is kind of odd, because I used to rely heavily on news networks for news, and now I find myself moving away from them and more towards the blogs of their sources. Its funny how a RSS reader can make a news service like the BBC superfluous by cutting out the middle man. RSS/Aggregators give the reader the power to create their own micro news service with the opportunity for speedy receiption of news, and more detailed coverage of what they are interested in. It will be interesting to see what happens to places like the BBC/NPR where people conventionally went for the same type of information. I guess they’ll have to get faster or provide more original content.

-Duke