Month	Number of feeds (in thousands)
January 2004	307
February 2004	382
March 2004	347
April 2004	382
May 2004	429
June 2004	478
July 2004	577
August 2004	644
September 2004	701
October 2004	758
November 2004	946
December 2004	2,746
January 2005	4,316
February 2005	5,295
March 2005	6,099
April 2005	6,497
May 2005	8,468
June 2005	10,439
July 2005	12,007
August 2005	13,605

Source: Feedster Inc.

RSS Keeps Booming

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, which deliver up-to-the-minute headlines to readers, have caught on in recent years as a way of staying abreast of news, blog posts, and even podcasts. The growth in the number of RSS feeds available is showing no signs of slowing down. From just July to August, over 1.5 million new feeds came online -- more than twenty times the number added during the same period a year before.

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