The RSS Blog

Dave Winer has started a new project. He's implementing the RSS cloud. This is a ping server that echos the pings to subscribed clients. His ping server will be lifeliner.org. Unfortunately, this is no better than push. It's great for geeks and Web based aggregators, but it won't work for native RSS clients residing behind corporate firewalls or NATs. That's why push notification failed numerous times over the last decade.

http://rsscloud.org/
http://lifeliner.org
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/07/14/rebootingTheRssCloud.html