Is RSS a perfect match for Personal Software Agents?

Byte Magazine, March 1995 issue. State of the Art: Agents of Change

Some blog-noise about the topic:
Amazon.com Syndicated Content
0xdecafbad: Finding the RSS in Amazon searches
Dan Gillmor: Amazon Does RSS, Officially
Wired.com search results in RSS format...
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=703

some more sources
http://www.onfocus.com/comments.asp?id=3264
http://a.wholelottanothing.org/archives.blah/007190
http://www.dashes.com/anil/index.php?archives/006842.php#comments

i'm writing about it... 2b continued...