I recently incorrectly predicted that porn was to be the killer app for RSS enclosures (Really Sexy Sindication). In fact, podcasting seems to be picking up steam
An adroit commenter wondered why they weren’t doing it already if it was such a natural fit. Perhaps because of replacement technologies? Fleshbot notes that two products (NSFW) allow you to automagically download pornographic images to your computer. Turns out it isn’t that hard to scrape most picture sites and extract the image files. In fact, had there been a more consistent structure for weblogs, RSS might not have been necessitated there either.
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I’ve got an RSS mercenary in Germany, Carlo, that will scrape sites to RSS for €2… not the great deal that it used to be, but still cheap enough to keep track of things… more info here. (Carlo maintains about 200 feeds now)