Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?

News aggregators may be the best new tools to appear on the Web since the browser, but as the programs and the underlying RSS standard grow more popular, some question whether the Internet will be able to handle the traffic.

Aggregators, sometimes called newsreaders or RSS readers, are a hybrid of a Web browser and an e-mail program, allowing Web users to peruse hundreds of information sources, from Boston-based restaurant job listings to Taiwanese political blogs.

But what happens when everyone discovers the power of aggregators? Will the Web be able to handle it? In Internet boom-speak, will it scale?

Source: Wired News - Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?