Note on the Future of RSS Feeds

These days, I see a decline in the publication of RSS feeds. Either they're not present, not advertised much, or incomplete. This is especially true of mainstream, non-professional sites.

One of the reasons that might lead bloggers and webmasters to remove or neglect RSS feeds is that they provide no way to count followers (unique followers). A good evolution off RSS would be to allow a simple "declarative" download of RSS feeds.

• Authentication might be hard to obtain and maintain.
• Identified-only feeds might make users reluctant to use them.
• "Declaration" of an identifier of the follower is subject to many uncertainties, but could allow for a better count of unique users, returning users, etc.

RSS feeds for IT and ITsec

In bold characters those that I actually enjoy reading each and every time.

Security:

• Google's research on the terms sécurité "système d information" hospitalier [FR]
  
• Schneier on Security [EN]
  
• Chaos Computer Club [DE]
• Decurity blog [EN]
• Devoteam blog [FR]
• En vrac, mais pas trop non plus... [FR]
• Anton Chuvakin's Security Warrior [EN]
• Orange Business Sécurité [FR]
• SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily News [EN]
• SearchSecurity: Network Security Tactics [EN]
  
• Light Blue Touchpaper [EN]
• Knowckers [FR]
• LinuxSecurity.com [EN]
• Ma petite parcelle d'Internet... [FR]
• Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog [EN]
• Security Mike's Blog [EN]
• The Guerilla CISO [EN + Lolcats]
• Yui Kee Computing Articles [EN]
• Securitatea informaţiilor [RO]
• Logged [EN]
• SecurityRecruiter.com's Security Recruiter Blog [EN]
• The Microsoft Security Response Center [EN]
  

"General" IT:

• ITBoard [RO]
• IT&C - Cotidianul.ro [RO]
• Royal Pingdom [EN]
• Michael Krigsman's IT Project Failures [EN]
• The IT Skeptic [EN]
• Software, Interrupted [EN]
• Mini-Microsoft [EN]
• William H. Dutton [EN]
• BlogFish [EN]
• Linuxfr.org's main article feed [FR]
• Linuxfr.org users' blogs feed [FR]
• 451 CAOS Theory [EN]
  
• Bob Sutor [EN]
• Colin Charles Agenda [EN]
• Lodahl's blog [EN]
• Mark Shuttleworth [EN]
• Rob Weir: An Antic Disposition [EN]
• Groklaw [EN]
• Jim Grisanzio [EN]
• Internet Evolution: Nicole Ferraro [EN]
• linux360 Feed Aggregator [RO + EN]
• Pauza de Cafea Blog [RO]
• Quelques digressions sous GPL... [FR]
• Grupul pentru software liber [RO]
• Student la CS [RO]
• Valerie Aurora [EN]
• Încearcă software liber! [RO]
• Parinux [FR]

Friends:

• Blog de Jean-Christophe Lavocat [EN + FR]: Web technologies and search engine optimizations.
• 3R Technologic [EN]: Very active in web technologies and 3D technologies, though he doesn't post a lot. (If you hear me, yeah, that's a call.)
• Gregory Colpart's blog [FR]: Mostly about free software and GNU/Linux systems.
• /home/florian [FR]: Mostly about free software and GNU/Linux systems.

I also have my own feed Assaults on the Internet neutrality [*] gathering articles from all that I read on the web about governments and ISPs messing with the neutrality of the Internet.