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lotus22Jan 5, 2011
Twitter pretty much took the idea RSS and made it social.
themazzterJan 5, 2011
I found this article via RSS.
Just sayin'.
botraxJan 5, 2011
That's retarted. RSS feeds are send to an email box for me to read my news without surfing the net. Far from dead.
graphitecubeJan 5, 2011
The only thing I don't like is that RSS doesn't let you access very old entries (most of them give you last 25 entries only).
mheykJan 6, 2011
open up the actual web page
fitnessman220Jan 5, 2011
Matthew Ingram knows his stuff and this is in fact true. RSS is dead, but it never was mainstream anyway. I think that RSS was a fad that is now a smaller part of the geek culture that was mainstream for us and will come back again just a bit smaller
A couple of weeks back I went back into my old RSS feeds for the Blogs I follow. The trouble that we really had was that a few of us used RSS for 300-400 blogs and it was awesome...until we burned out.
Now I use Google Blog serach, or real time search for topics but after last week rediscovering my blogs on google Reader I realized that all of those posts that people wrote about themselves are never found in a Google search, those posts about people are as important but completely different than the data that we look for on the web and the humanizing element is what brought me originally to the web anyway.
I hope I am back using RSS again but time will tell. I plan to only spend a couple shorter sessions a day browsing feeds but this is a far cry form my old 4 hour stints in RSS and following more than I really could have.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
basvdJan 6, 2011
Google Blog Search actually uses site-feeds (such as RSS, but also Atom) to index the blogs. Blogs that don't provide a feed are not indexed.
This supports the claim in the article that RSS is becoming more of a backend system that people use without knowing about it.
Odoi12chrisJan 5, 2011
Well what must i say about this seen it like twenty times today.
Benjo94Jan 5, 2011
As long as there are websites that generate content, and people who want to be able to manage and consume that content at their leisure, RSS won't go away. I personally love Feedly for Chrome and iPod, and RSS means I spend less time navigating websites and more time reading the content I'm interested in.
missinglinkJan 5, 2011
Technology generally doesn't "die" on it's own. It's usually killed by something that does a better job at what the technology did. Show me what works better at doing what RSS does and I'll show you the RSS-killer.
kalibrJan 5, 2011
never even used RSS
theswashbucklerJan 5, 2011
I use RSS/Atom every day...
coffeestonedJan 6, 2011
RSS has it's place, but lately i have been relying on it less and less.
liquisoftJan 6, 2011
I dunno if RSS is dead.
There are a number of very popular RSS apps for the iPhone/iPad/iStuff that are doing incredibly well. Reeder and Pulse are two that come to mind. If RSS were truly a dead/useless technology, then those apps would surely not be as popular as they are.
But then, I can also understand that the popularity of one technology does not necessarily mean another is also popular. Their metrics are relative. In the grand scheme of the internet, it's probably true that RSS is rarely used. But those who do use it certainly find it helpful, just as I do. Considering the vast majority of internet users are what we'd consider "technology illiterate," it stands to reason that those who can barely operate a mouse wouldn't be aware of RSS.
It's certainly not dead, though. Death suggests it had been very lively up to this point, which I don't think is true...based upon no data whatsoever. My impression is that RSS has probably grown in popularity just as the internet has. RSS usage has probably remained a relatively steady percentage of overall net use.
tomhardingJan 7, 2011
I use Google Reader on a daily basis. I'd say RSS is far from dead.
longhairJan 10, 2011
I use Google Reader for everything. Not sure how people can keep up with all these blogs without it.