k9rescue - 12:27 am on Mar 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

I've got an application streaming data to a mySQL server. There's new data record (say up to 40 chars) every few seconds. I'd like to make the info available to people on the web. I was thinking of using RSS, but that's a lot of file I/O.

On the other hand, RSS is everywhere and that would give more people the chance for access.

Are there other protocols which make more sense - like some kind of chatroom? Or, do you think RSS might work for this situation?