Interesting in-depth discussion Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? over at Slashdot regarding the dangers posed by the explosive growth of RSS. The very popularity of the service is putting it at risk, as sites become swamped by RSS requests from blogs, feed readers, syndication sites... just about anything you can think of.

So is the recursive nature of the blogosphere now in danger of eating itself?

Of course, being Slashdot, the discussion goes into quite technical details about the problems and potential solutions, but its definitely worth a look even for non-techies.