Re: [syndication] Low Story Volume RSS Feeds

["Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>]

> Thanks to everyone who has been so helpful with creation and
> publicizing of the Christian Science Monitor RSS feeds.
>
> I'm trying to get the tech resources to slice the CSM content into
> thinner slices.  The website has 54 different second-level hierarchy
> categories.
>
> The issue is that some categories could go several weeks without
> having any new stories.  Would RSS users find it valuable to be
> alerted to the occasional story on a subject (say Environment or
> Space), or would they find it annoying that the feed rarely updated,
> though the RSS file itself was re-uploaded to the server every
> weekday?

I very much encourage you to do this. IMO, this is much of the value of
RSS - being able to track a specific subject, despite, or even because it
is low-traffic.