Robert Scoble stirred up plenty of discussion (including in my own blog) when he explained that MSDN’s full-text feeds were reduced to excerpts because “RSS is broken“. In his post, Scoble states:
“Bandwidth usage was growing faster than MSDN’s ability to pay for, or keep up with, the bandwidth. Terrabytes of bandwidth were being used up by RSS.”
However, Sara Williams – head of MSDN – posted a clarification in which she says:
“our RSS traffic is neglible compared to all the traffic generated by Windows Update, MSN, downloads, and the rest of microsoft.com. “
In the meantime, full-text posts are back. So…perhaps the RSS sky isn’t falling after all?