The first thing you'll learn from this article is the meaning of the term 'scraping', something I think a number of academic publications are ripe for. Scraping illustrates the power of RSS: "yanking control" over information viewing from the providers and placing it into the hands of the readers. The "fence sitters" described by the author are those publications that have not yet made the leap into RSS syndication: they are concerned about the diversion of ad revenues (mostly) and confusion among readers (a little). The story also refers to the new built-in RSS reader in Opera (a web browser, like Netscape) and to Bill Gates's recent comments about RSS.
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