WordPress just released the wonderful news that every self hosted WordPress site out there is about to get more real-time thanks to some new behind the scenes developments.

WordPress announced on its official blog that it has turned on support for PubSubHubbub, yeah that’s a mouth full, a move that will get RSS content of WordPress blogs to RSS readers like Google Reader or Bloglines in real-time.

How RSS feeds current works is readers poll the feed every few minutes checking if there is new content available, how it will work with PubSubHubbub is that the WordPress blogs will now push the feeds to the respective RSS readers as new content is posted.

Just today I wrote an article on the South African blog aggregators, this now opens up a hole new field for them as well. Blog aggregators like MyScoop and Afrigator will now have the ability to get your content in real time without you needing to log into the aggregator and ping your blogs. Real-time aggregation, I would like to hear if the local blog aggregators will make use of this service.

Here is a nice demo of PuSH (PubSubHubbub) in what WordPress call a “cheesy video”, for even more info on the PuSH protocol you can head over to the PuSH project page.