First let's define our terms.

Bandwidth vs. Latency:

Bandwidth & Throughput Digital bandwidth or throughput is a measurement of amount of data that can be transferred over a digital line over a specific amount of time.

Latency Latency is time it takes to deliver a packet of data from one place to another. This includes time it takes for an electrical or optical signal to travel a certain physical distance (propagation delay) and time it takes to process these signals along way (processing delay).

So bandwidth is a measure of frequency or a rate of service delivery while latency is a measure of time or signal delay.

Technology Comparision.

Cable service uses signals transmitted through same coax cable that cable television uses. DSL uses normal phone lines to send digital signals to a DSL modem.

Coaxial cable has a far greater capacity than RJ-11 phone cable. But, coaxial cable coming into your home is shared with many people outside your house and provides many services. Cable modems have higher bandwidth though connection is shared among cable users in your service area and even with your digital cable box. As a result performance is quite similar to DSL. Generally, cable modems can achieve better peak throughput, but this high bandwidth is not consistant and depends, again, on load, affected by time of day and other factors. DSL service usually provides a more constant, consistant feed, with lower latency. The distance to your exchange or "switch" is main factor that determines DSL quality of service. Look for green (in Toronto) phone exchange box in your neighbourhood and note how far your home is from that box.

Everything from what new item is selling well on eBay, to what "Wired Magazine" is saying about latest technology. More and more magazine and newspaper publishers are gaining a foothold on this new juggernaut which is going to change way we gather news.

Advertisers too are not left out. Already some of largest media companies in world are now poised to find advertising space for their clients 'branding' campaigns, on any available web page that regularly features in rss feeds.

The media companies with billions of ad dollars to spend, will they say, be spending less on newspaper and t.v. advertising in coming years, and will concentrate instead on 'blogs' and rss feeds.

Competition will be fierce for every available space on most popular feeds, some run by newspapers!

Many freelance journalists will be running rss feeds in direct competition with newspaper employers who now pay them to gather news for their publication. There will be no editor to censor their news items, they will be free to write whatever they want.