I actually saw this article in my RSS reader Feedly http://www.feedly.com/, which does a lot of the same stuff in, I think a prettier fashion, with a browser extension for Chrome or Firefox.
The "RSS is dead" thing is getting a bit worn. Twitter and Facebook can fill in a few gaps (I use Twitter to follow TC as they post too much stuff to keep up with one-by-one) but are useless for following sources where you want to guarantee you see every story (e.g. personal blogs, slower moving authoritative news sources, work stuff).
Some people have been finding a combination of Twitter and social link sites (like HN or Reddit) are "enough" for their needs and have dropped their use of RSS, but for people with a serious need for managing a wide array of news sources, RSS is far from cold in the ground.
On an aside, this whole RSS is dead meme is extremely annoying. A universally-adopted dead-simple file format that is the plumbing for all manner of random data around the web can not be "killed" by social stream platforms.
This is just a horrible example of echo-chamber thinking run amok. Just because RSS Readers are no longer a hot space to be in does not suddenly mean that the closed platform dujour is somehow superceding RSS. Does anyone have any idea of how many of Twitter's "100 million" actually log on regularly? Or what the engagement value of a Twitter follower is vs an RSS subscriber?
Humans are social, so a social service is always going to get more users than a serious tool (well, as long as it's "cool"). But does anyone think the need for finding and filtering quality information is going away any time soon? RSS sure offers a lot more hope than Twitter.
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Some people have been finding a combination of Twitter and social link sites (like HN or Reddit) are "enough" for their needs and have dropped their use of RSS, but for people with a serious need for managing a wide array of news sources, RSS is far from cold in the ground.
This is just a horrible example of echo-chamber thinking run amok. Just because RSS Readers are no longer a hot space to be in does not suddenly mean that the closed platform dujour is somehow superceding RSS. Does anyone have any idea of how many of Twitter's "100 million" actually log on regularly? Or what the engagement value of a Twitter follower is vs an RSS subscriber?
Humans are social, so a social service is always going to get more users than a serious tool (well, as long as it's "cool"). But does anyone think the need for finding and filtering quality information is going away any time soon? RSS sure offers a lot more hope than Twitter.