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Ryan Lowe asks why syndication formats like RSS and Atom don't support feed deltas by default. This is all in reference to the MSDN master feed cluster you know what. I've thought about this some since the last time I posted on it; I've come to a simple conclusion:

A master feed covering 1300 blogs is a truly stupid idea

It's too big, tries to cover too much... etc. This isn't a technical problem - it's a marketing problem. In other words, it's exactly the sort of problem that Scoble should already know how to solve - if there are feeds which are logically related, then there's value in clustering them. Otherwise, there's not. This is a sorting out issue; someone at MSDN needs to build smaller buckets...