Comments on: Is RSS Really Dead?

By: Sdfg

Sdfg — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:28:00 +0000

pro RSS

By: Jerry Mills

Jerry Mills — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:38:00 +0000

RSS DEAD! Hardly… How else can one keep up with 40 websites of interest? I can see why it is hard to gather the numbers and advistors may not like them due to a lack of click throughs, but for the end user, the ability to scan headlines on so many different websites and only taking the time on the headlines of interest is such a time saver.

By: Thetester

Thetester — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:14:00 +0000

yes, we are here, your RSS readers

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:43:32 +0000

It is RSS reader for me! best way to follow news there is. Twitter is a time-waster.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:52:10 +0000

140 comments and running answers your question, I think. I use Facebook for social news (whose cat died) and Twitter for nothing at all. RSS is my morning newspaper, and also where I aggregate technical information such as the health of our servers. Flexible, easy, essential.

I suspect RSS has become so integrated for us that we no longer talk about it - hence the misperception that it's dead.

By: Hellie

Hellie — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:57:56 +0000

Great questions posed and terrific feedback from all.
I can't envisage Twitter taking over my RSS habits anytime soon as you can't fit the same volume of info into 180 characters (regardless of the URLs supplied) and I find it harder to continuously monitor twitter where RSS affords me the option to read specific peoples updates when i'm ready to without having to remember to look under that person.
Facebook is no where near closer to having the capabilities of information sharing that RSS and Twitter afford.

By: Luke G

Luke G — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:18:44 +0000

Oh, we’re here.

Beyond curiosity, I consider web reading to be a part of my job. For those of us that are, in this sense, professional info consumers and curators – esp those lucky enough to love it, too – RSS is still indispensable.

By: Cody

Cody — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:07:35 +0000

What if you could have both the real-time aspect of Twitter and the topical personalization of RSS in one service? Could that service kill RSS?

It's just getting started, so content submissions are still sparse, but Poundwire.com is trying to fill this void. It might be worth keeping an eye on if you're trying to juggle a reader and a twitter account, and filter out the noise.

By: William

William — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:09:51 +0000

There is one thing that's worrying me, though.
I'm seeing more and more new sites with great content and no RSS feed. Rather, they opt for a Twitter or Facebook link for news updates.

By: William

William — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:37:05 +0000

Thanks for bringing back this topic. Every once in a while, this debate need to be revived.

Twitter vs. RSS is like apples vs. oranges.

RSS is essential, and becoming more invisible, a victim of its own success (Isn't technology supposed to be best when invisible?). But Readers haven't kept up with users needs, that's why some people have given them up in favor of the next shiny thing: Twitter. But after you follow a few interesting people, then you're back at the management nightmare of managing your feeds. This time, it's people vs. RSS feeds. So, when Twitter management of people becomes a nightmare, are we going to say "People are dead"?

The failure is on the part of easy of management of RSS, filtering and mining choices.