Good stuff Steve.

RSS was much more effective as plumbing, yet, it was forced down the users throat as a consumption mechanism. Few know what RSS is, let alone an RSS reader and that certainly did not help.
As you correctly say, we needed services like FriendFeed and Techmeme to really show the power of RSS as a transport utility, as opposed to last mile consumption.

I wrote about this in the context of business usage: http://bit.ly/1QTnt

Nicely written piece, and you can tell that you love RSS, which of course I do too.

I’d like to get on the record predicting that RSS is just as dead as HTTP and SMTP are.

It’s part of the infrastructure. I’m actively writing software, and every day that involves parsing and generating RSS, because it is the way apps communicate with each other about change.

Google Reader took us in a bad direction, made promises for RSS that it couldn’t keep (in line with Sameer’s comment). Of course it’s not actually dead, software never was alive so it’s no more or less dead now that it was last week, month or year.

You know it would be interesting if one of the industry conferences invited me to speak about RSS someday. It’s never happened. This is the 10th year of RSS, we’ve learned a lot. I would love to share some of it, but this industry has never wanted to hear what I have to say. Or so it seems.

Don’t understand this at all.

Saying that Twitter replaces Google Reader is like saying email replaces the stack of print magazines I have sitting next to me right now.

Huh?

A related thought: If it doesn’t take a writer an order of magnitude or two (or three or four) longer to write than it takes me to read, then I’m not interested in it.

I’m a dinosaur, I guess.

Wow. No one has asked you to speak about RSS, Dave?
That just blows my mind.

I use a desktop client to read RSS. It can be on all the time, or just start it up when you want to check your favourite blogs/sites. I find it much easier to follow the people I want to keep up with than Twitter.

P.S.
You can add the RSS feed for your Twitter friends to your RSS reader, making it possible to keep up with people when offline.

I’m probably totally missing something or the point – often the case
So Steve, you no longer get your info (links/news/etc) through RSS, you get pointers (links) to that via Tweets. If true, aren’t you being somewhat parasitic, letting others do the work of parsing/reading their feeds in order to even post those interesting links in Twitter/Friendfeed? Those links have to come from somewhere.
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What am I missing?

We at Obamacare.tv utilize RSS, Twitter, and a number of other services, platforms, sites, etc to gather raw data, filter it, and create original content from. Saying goodbye to RSS is like saying goodbye to the Air Force because you just kick ass in the tank.
We say this as an enthusiastic supporter of twitter power.

The true power of RSS is the ability to ignore the sheer volume of information more easily.

source: http://twitter.com/qthrul/status/1688525894

I don’t have enough trust that my friends will find all the stuff I want to read to give up RSS. If I can “j” down the page, I’d rather at least see what I’m not reading in GoogleReader.

On point.

Nah! There’s life in the old dog yet.

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RSS will always be a great format and data type, but it’s not as immediate and brief as Twitter, and it never will be.

RSS while never really “sexy”, for the true information connoisseur will always be very much in use.

The majority of links Twittered or Friendfed (and I have RSS feeds which follow such things) are links to the “big” name sites. I don’t want that kind of information. I am looking for the boutique stuff, the opinions less held. The wheat not the chaff.

Nice try, but no banana I am afraid.

Interesting post. Twitter/Friendfeed offer a social organization of your information stream and Google Reader provides today a more topical organization of the stream. I think that people like to go back and forth between the two. I think that it will be all the more the case as twitter mature and the velocity of the stream increases.

In feedly (http://www.feedly.com), we are trying to best integrate those two concept and allow users to take advantage of both Twitter and Google Reader while keeping control of how the information is filtered and presented. Did you ever had the chance to try feedly?

One more thing: under the hood Google Reader is an amazing platform which will allow Google to easily mutate x multiply the experience when they decide to do so.

But doesn’t someone need to check their RSS feeds in order to share interesting stories on Twitter? Like, otherwise where would it start…? I don’t want to click on every link that @so-and-so-blog pushes out… I want to scroll through it faster on my RSS feed to see whether it’s worth reading or not, or at least scan through it and know the news.

Maybe I got it all wrong.

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Great post, but my question is this: Why the Beatles photo to accompany the post?

Google Reader and Twitter are two different things. At least I use them for different things. The first to monitor news from sites I normally visit. The latter for monitoring the buzz on the web, what people are reading, thinking…

How convenient! The next item on my TODO list is “create an RSS feed for XXX”

“Never instead of. Always in addition” – Rabbi Joseph Gelberman

Twitter is the fad app of the moment. It’s also a great way to get lots of hits from the relationship managmenet/ 2.0 is god crowd. There is no 2.0 please go back to your homes.

RSS is still far more useful than twitter and much more widespread. While I’m sure you are a nice person, I find your article to be populist drivel capitalizing on a crap fad to get hits, you should team up with Scoble. Good day.

I definitely agree that it’s easy to get caught up inside a Feed Reader and miss out on native blog comments and conversation, which is the biggest weakness of RSS consumption at the moment – the same could be said of Twitter/Friendfeed etc, until the likes of Disque and Backtype unite everything together somewhere…

But I do disagree that RSS is dead – for starters, it never really became a mainstream consumption tool. It still might, though, as it’s simple to use compared to the brilliant but overwhelming amount of options on Friendfeed.

And realtime doesn’t always win – I tend to catch up on RSS in mornings or evenings when I’ve got time to read, blog, think etc, rather than during the working day – which would mean missing a lot of Twitter content unless it’s as an @reply. Instead, I can quickly skip through content I might have already seen via trips to Twitter etc throughout the day, and still find things which might have slipped through my network’s nets.

Plus I quite often find things via RSS which serve as a starting point for me to hopefully add some value to when I research, write about it and add to it – and being able to find previous articles quickly and easily via RSS is a lot easier than indexing every single thing I might ever need in Delicious, or searching the entire web every time….

For me, it’s horses for courses…

I read this post via RSS on my iGoogle homepage – i’d much rather have that than a stream of nonsense via twitter. Maybe i’m “Old School” – but I prefer the long form content (image that – blog posts now considered long form, in depth content! – thanks twitter!)

RSS is great for receiving content, and allowing your content to be shared w/ other platforms – i think it will be around for a while…..

Steve, I don’t disagree about the value of Twitter and the extent to which it works as a sort of randomized delivery system… and I wasn’t using RSS much at all. However, earlier today I installed RSS Ticker, a Firefox plugin, and it feels like a great way to make RSS useful again. I’m also digging Friendfeed as a way to fish the ocean of information. We have an embarrassment of riches, I think.

I agree, however I believe that it is very much easier to ignore the sheer volume of information using Twitter.

I use FeedDemon and frequently feel guilt when using the Panic button, often leaving unread items until I have a few spare hours at airport lounges, etc.

Twitter, IMHO, has little in the way of “I missed your tweet” guilt, if I missed it, I missed it…you can always re-tweet it if it’s that important. Similarly, others will re-tweet important messages over a different time-frame, hence I’m more likely to see it.

Rgs
–Craig
http://www.twitter.com/camurphy

To be honest…the best thing about RSS is the lack of social connectivity. Give me what I want without any information bias.

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Can I join Allison’s fan club? Well said.

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Even the swine that had some slight taint of flu is dead, deadlier and deadliest now. So what now, die an even deadlier death?

I’ll bet both RSS and Twitter will outlive the swine, though…..

In some places of the world RSS is still a new concept for many people. I use it 365 and I use Twitter 365.

RSS 365 = Tweeter 365

I use twitter from Google Reader

I added Betwittered to my Google Reader.

Problem Solved.

Funny thing – I use RSS (GoogleReader) to parse, grep and organize my Twitter feeds; Full feed (including @Replies), Fully-configurable grouping (via labels), and FULLY-searchable using Google’s search tools. I’m not done with RSS yet. Certainly not the sexiest of tools, but like the unsexy 16oz Claw Hammer – no tool box is complete without one.

I attune Twitter and RSS as like those dreaded dinosaurs, The newspapers. Twitter is quick to the pace, RSS is kind of like your Sunday paper, for more details on the drill, I think a mix of them would be good, because as cool as Twitter is, I don’t want to know where you ate, what concert you went to and how your kid is a menace. give quick grasp info that people can appreciate. It is interesting albeit unfortunate how many RSS feeds appear to be dying though.

Disagree 100%. RSS is far from dead. You seriously think twitter is a replacement? Surely this is some knid of joke?

Steve,

The usefulness of RSS depends on who you talk to and how they consume information.

Take tech news bloggers, for example. I know at least a few of the guys at Mashable continue to comb RSS feeds for the less prevalent information.

I’ve seen a trend of casual users who don’t frequently use Twitter but check RSS feeds and – gasp – chat forums on a daily basis.

I haven’t checked my Google Reader in half a year either. I do subscribe to RSS feeds on occasion, with the mentality that “I’ll check it later,” but never end up returning to Google Reader.

My replacement for RSS is primarily the blogroll that I hand selected for my own blog, marissalouie.com. My customized Friendfeed groups are a distant second. And I stopped using Twitter as an information pulling service after I followed more than 400 people. It’s only an information pulling service when I manually look up a friend’s Twitter name – at which point the RSS comparison ceases for me. (It’s like manually typing in techcrunchit.com versus receiving it in a reader or by following your tweets about techcrunchit updates @stevegillmor).

There will always be a need to enable RSS and email subscriptions, as you mentioned. Otherwise we would lose valuable blog and website readers for as long as RSS and email shall live. This highlights that when it comes to RSS consumers, “to each his own.”

There is indeed room for improvement in RSS so that it becomes more pervasive and in-your-face. Perhaps your blog post will help launch a new RSS paradigm.

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I am a reatime social media and news junky. I believe RSS still has it’s place. RSS is like reading the NY Times Sunday edition. It’s an event, not a process through which I (at times) obtain valuable information. At the very least its a form of entertainment. RSS allows me to slow down, to think critically, and to respond without the added distraction of parsed realtime bits of information about emerging media, breaking news and other and real time content.

Why did the Beatles cross Abbey Road?

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“…. is dead” always were the best-selling covers at Byte Magazine. Same as it ever was.

don’t know about email, but what stack?

not much apparently, Px. Letting others do the work? Damn right.

You’re not following the right people, but until Track returns you have an excuse.

I mostly use sources like NewsGang and TechMeme to compliment Twitter/FriendFeed. These days I follow more than subscribe.

Much of the coverage on the web today is about as useful for promoting progress as a stack of old magazines.

I haven’t seen Google rushing to scan the world’s periodicals just yet. Yet.

create a friendfeed account and follow XXX.

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disagree that RSS isn’t mainstream. Twitter is the response to RSS ubiquity, tilting the filter from topic to people. Async follow + Track + aggregated RSS (FriendFeed) beats RSS.

there is no such thing as no information bias.

npoe

intersting how many admit they have dropped Google Reader even as they keep adding feeds. I in fact click on twitter urls as they appear, following those who filter the network efficiently for me. RSS may be used by some, but less and less.

Tabs replaced Google Reader.

what periodicals? oh wait, the Kindle stream.

Often overlooked, but very poignant. I think GOOG should just set the GReader API loose, and let companies like yours have at it. They can keep GReader for those that want to use it, but it should be made a platform with documented APIs (reverse-engineering the API is too much of a moving target).

It’s asymmetrical (chronous implies time).

Shame on you for not linking to Winer, Obasanjo, or Wired, all of which published highly relevant posts in the last couple days (or in Winer’s case 3+ yrs ago on Realsimplesyndication.com. Good reasearch

thanks, a typo which I’ll leave in. Only read Dare’s post when I saw mine related to it on TechMeme. Wired I missed. Winer I’ve read every day since I met him at the .Net rollout in Redmond. He invented the shit I’m talking about. Haven’t you heard?

I have to join in the chorus of “Huh?”.

Twitter is an attention Ponzi scheme. Its only really useful for the early adopters and the popular bloggers. For us lower on the food chain its not terribly useful.

The only way I make twitter usable is to create categories in TweetDeck. However in this case all I’ve succeeded in doing is recreating Google Reader in another tool.

True until Track returns. Then the tools will improve dramatically. If Google Reader is so useful, why are they trying to reverse engineer Twitter social dynamics. Because they are being blown past by Twitter et al.

I don’t use RSS nearly as often either. But it still serves a distinctly different purpose for folks who want a more methodical, less ADD-like focus.

Exactly. I read this post via RSS. In Google Reader.

RSS isn’t dead. It hasn’t even scraped the surface of mainstream enterprise IT usage yet.

The East River is very clean these days. It’s still busy enough with shipping traffic that most people don’t swim in it, but I see people fishing there every day, and many eat their catch. Let’s not perpetuate outdated ideas about the level of pollution of particular flows.

I once sailed up the East River with my father, and found myself parked at the bow with a long pike to fend off “fish” and other objects. Jumping into the river was frowned upon by authorities due to the high level of debris and bacterial substances, if you get my drift. Glad to hear it’s better, but I’ll still pass.

I enjoyed this post as I too have been wondering why I am spending less time in Google Reader – admittedly I have too many subscriptions and need to clean that up.

I love the “embarassment of riches” we have right now with communication tools available – my favourites are Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed. I don’t like managing my “web presence” on each network separately, it seems inefficient. I am thinking that FriendFeed is perhaps the most interesting “content aggregator” right now and am keen to learn more.

Some great comments are appearing here too – so part of my reason for leaving this comment is to subscribe to followup comments so I can continue learning about how best to manage the content we’re consuming and the content we want to make available to out networks.

Cheers,
Tony

Feed Readers never went mainstream, maybe because feeds like flowers need care and are not everlasting.

I had a similar experience and I scrapped NetNewsWire and Google Reader and built to other tools.

Hushchamber.com a linkblog aggregator for the .NET and ruby communities (mostly). The .NET space had gotten increasingly saturated with link bloggers.

Most recently I’ve created http://urlagg.com to basically keep track of del.icio.us/popular for tags you’re interested in, and only show new ones. The theory is you’re getting mostly good links because people are actually bookmarking them to come back to them and you’ll only see them (on the front page) the first time they’re new.

Once again Gillmor has a very good point, but I think calling something dead has jumped the shark (which has also jumped the shark). Ecosystems are fluid points that don’t necessarily die but evolve.

In any regard, we should thank Dave Winer for giving the system life.

I think I disagree Steve. Different use cases, different models. Twitter is like watching CNN – breaking news all the time. RSS feeds (at least mine) are like sitting down to the read the Economist. You’re going to need some time and some brainpower to digest the stuff coming at you.

I read posts like this and think that you all have a 3.2 second attention span. 3.25 if you’re on the tech short bus.

E-mail is too much, RSS is too much. Do we give it a year before you are all overwhelmed with too many tweets? Maybe we’ll bring it all down to monosyllabic grunts. Ha! No, wait, that’s verbal. Too inefficient perhaps.

It’s like a bunch of pre-teens furiously typing away text messages. It rarely communicates anything except a momentary emotion. There’s so little effort out there. It’s amusing. Twitter makes the echo chamber louder. Quick, I need a URL shortener…

Oh, I meant aged periodicals.

The new version of the periodical is where the real action will be. 7-11 style anytime and anywhere you’ll have the Slushee machine of brain happy goop on tap and sold by the pull.

The cup will be called a Kindle instead of a BigGulp.

I just ran into this interesting comic: http://twitpic.com/4n72w Sorry for the quality.

(I know that when you say twitter, you mean sophisticated track…but this is too funny to pass )

That’s exactly the way I see it too, Francine. I don’t want to be dependent on others to tell me what I want to read.

I use RSS … on the bookmark bar on my Firefox.

yea we get your drift. nonetheless, this flowery piece reads like you might have taken that dip after all.

might as well say move over indoor plumbing here comes twitter.

I still use RSS several times a day. I would never think of trying to replace my RSS with Twitter. Now a service like Friend Feed might be a klunky replacement, but not really ready for something like that just yet.

Direct usage of RSS is far from being replaced, but I could see it happening someday. Just not this year.

I disagree – they’re 2 different formats. Twitter is essentially real-time in that if you’re away from Twitter for a few hours, you miss out – whereas with RSS, it’s easy to go back.

Google already has scanned in vast quantities of periodicals, (Google Books).

Stupid is as stupid does. RSS is an infrastructure aggregation protocol that benefits the front end…comparing it to Twitter is like comparing fish to trees.

RSS is like Twitter without the noise or commentary. My RSS serves it’s purpose, it’s just Twitter adds some elements that aren’t always fit for my patience level.

Man!

Whats up with bloggers today? Damn! Comparing RSS to twitter is like comparing hammers to screwdrivers. I thought Gilmore was less stupid that this. Unfortunately I’m mistaken.

Hmmm…. Lets see, next time I need to consume one of my internal RSS feeds I send it over to twitter first, then read twitter’s RSS or Json API to get back the info I want.

What the bonehead Gilmore does not understand, is that RSS is not just for looking at through a feed reader. Computers use it a lot too. And furthermore I don’t want the unwashed masses looking at the stuff that I have in my Google Reader. There’s public and lots of private feeds in there for me and my staff’s own consumption.

I tell ya folks, something is in the water tonight. Its making all the normally sane bloggers stupid.

good lord, it’s bad enough with splogging via RSS, now think of it in real time via twitter. Add those funny or not worms and you have a massive AOL real time spam network. With that aside, I almost think this was twitter’s main point originally…
Micro blog instead of RSS

nicely written, thanks buddy

RSS is awesome. Don’t suggest that I would have to go through RSS withdrawals just because Twitter is cool. They’re different. Pe.ri.od.

Well put. This article was a fair bit of nonsense masquerading as wisdom.

Twitter is a novelty; I won’t dispute it’s relevance and utility, but a replacement to RSS it is not…

Google Reader is an indispensable part of my daily routine and informs me in a way that Twitter is simply incapable of, or any of the other social platforms.

RSS empowers me to channel the stream, rather than the current pulling me where it wants to.

Um, no

there is a competition between reader and twitter, but it’s about as much competition between google and apple. they’re both tech giants, but they don’t have a ton of overlap.

i use twitter and reader. reader is my lifeblood. for some of my favorite feeds i don’t even know what the real site looks like. is it social? no, not very much on reader. but sometimes i just wanna read the news. and that sometimes is always. i gobble it up, reading about 750 feeds a day from about 70 different sources.

twitter is great, but for sharing links. it is NOT a news feed. it is superficial – essentially what i got back in the early days of RSS feeds where i got the title only. title only feeds are WORTHLESS to me. i hate having to click out to find stuff, especially on my mobile reader.

take the tech crunch feed vs. twitter. i subscribed to the twitter it was awful – a title driven rehash of the RSS that cluttered up my twitter. i only need one, and i’d much rather have the full text.

like i said, the overlap is there, but more the majority of my feeds, they will stay in reader rather than twitter. unless you have useful information beyond a rehash of my reader feed, i’m not adding you to my twitter.

tech crunch got the axe from my twitter for this very reason.

I bring all my RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, etc into one place on my desktop. If I happen to catch the feed when it’s published then so be it, I might get to it 2 or 3 days later when I go through my Google Reader account.

I’d be really hard-pressed to agree that RSS is “dead”.

@JT

That was beautifully written. Tech news as literature. Thank you.

I completely agree with Dave. RSS is here to stay as a plumbing for the transfer of information between applications.

RSS as a concept for consumption of information by the end user may be on its way out, in turn being replaced by a layer above and beyond (Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed)…. but services like these will continue to rely on an underlying infrastructure driven by RSS. I continue to see new applications leverage RSS for this purpose and still see the value it provides.

I love both: I use both. I enjoy reading from both. The real world does not revolve around technology; technology aids development but in itself does not give any value to the social environment unless people start using it. Twitter is transient and dynamic, RSS is the fridge magnet that lets you hold on to an important note you would want to use at your personal critical convenience.

RSS is an open standard. It will last as long as software supports it.

Twitter is a proprietary service. It will last as long as Ev has money.

Man!

Whats up with bloggers today? Damn! Comparing RSS to twitter is like comparing hammers to screwdrivers. I thought Gilmore was less silly that this. Unfortunately I’m mistaken.

Hmmm…. Lets see, next time I need to consume one of my internal RSS feeds I send it over to twitter first, then read twitter’s RSS or Json API to get back the info I want.

What Gilmore does not understand, is that RSS is not just for looking at through a feed reader. Computers use it a lot too. And furthermore I don’t want the unwashed masses looking at the stuff that I have in my Google Reader. There’s public and lots of private feeds in there for me and my staff’s own consumption.

I tell ya folks, something is in the water tonight. Its making all the normally sane bloggers crazy.

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I second the feedly.com plug. Feedly revolutionized GReader. It turned my once static and lifeless (yet over-full) RSS collection into a dynamic pot of information. It’s integration into social media is brilliant and can only grow better. Plus it pulls in your twitter content

I like twitter, but so many article/blog summaries cannot be fit into 140 characters plus RT references and links. on that front it falls short. If it is a personal recommendation that has been properly parsed, it is great, but lots of blogs force feed twitter and make it useless unless you already want to read the link. Ergo http://www.feedly.com.

What about podcasting? Or TV torrent subscribing?

Sameer,
I am sure you are not using Outlook 2007 in Enterprise environment.

I find RSS to be very useful. It provides me full contents with ads in my inbox.

Twitter for me is more of a pebble on water, bouncing until blog sphere and media sea allow.

How can you read whole article without having to click and open the browser?

perhaps i might be missing some thing here.

Outlook 2007 allows me to skip through various blogs fast and much more efficiently.

Twitter may be useful when you want to keep in touch with a couple of guys (humans) but definitely not useful for reading blogs.

A word of advice, don’t listen to people who don’t have to produce anything for a living.

If can live off the kindness and crumbs of others and occasionally spout off about what other people find interesting, Twitter is the tool for you.

For the rest of us: books, journals, search engines, email, and rss feeds still prove to be essential tools for getting our jobs done.

RSS as *you* use it may be dead. But RSS sure as hell isn’t and won’t be. I’m sure you remember from your study of networking the 7-layer model? Where does RSS fit into that model? You’re thinking it’s at the application layer. But RSS is lower down the stack. Dave’s right, it’s as dead as HTTP.

Spot on, Dave! I’m guessing Steve is trying to get a rise out of everyone (which he is) and that he can’t possibly be as naive as this post makes him sound.

Yea, yea, Twitter is booming, and I am a HUGE fan of Twitter (see http://faseidl.com/public/item/230692), but the world wide adoption of (and investment in) RSS is staggering.

Back in 1989 I sold my PC-based version control company to a mainframe based software giant. Friends in my industry warned me against the sale saying that I was climbing on a sinking ship because the acquiring company had lots of COBOL offerings and C was taking over the world. (Glad I didn’t listen.

Twenty years later, C is old news and COBOL is even older–but still going strong.

To elaborate on Gillmor’s usage of RSS:
All my news is in techcrunch. I don’t go there any more. Since Gillmor is on techcrunch, I won’t use techcrunch.

I am not going to a stinking Social Network for my news feeds. I even use RSS for business purposes. This factless “news article” is just biased junk. Are we supposed to read one TechCrunch article in a 12, 140 character, tweets? -Not to mention the 50++ other feeds I am subscribed to. The only thing that will fit in a tweet is the header and the link, and Google Reader in List View does it better and faster than anyone else. Why reinvent the wheel?

(Love you TechCrunch!! No offense intended whatsoever. I just want you to know how foolish, uncreditable, and unprofessional you sound right now.)

RSS is still alive and well, and thousands, millions use RSS. For this site alone, over half a million people have subscribed to RSS. -And get this: I can read a whole news article in one piece from Google Reader. Ohhh Ahhh! The technological break thrus are truly outstanding.

What if XXX is NOT on friendfeed ?
Don’t make the assumption that everything in the world is able to provide data / information in a stream that’s a) accessible to you and / or b) that you access ?

To truly progress our minds, we need to get:
-) contrary messages,
-) messages outside our echo chamber,
-) messages from different taxonomy’s …

Examples are :
-) RSS is as dead as plumbing (i.e. consumer RSS v infrastrucre RSS)
-) I use RSS to track what is happening in the US and Europe business hours (overnight for me)
-) You appear to be tagging RSS as a consumer technology, where it is becoming less useful, rather than an infrastructure technology.

I think the first two are points that people have covered enough in the past (basically, its the echo chamber argument).

Hower, twitter and friendfeed won’t translate the cultural or linguistic differences. Think of what he roots for the Green Bay Packers means to someone outside North America. That’s assuming you see their posts, because of time zone differences.

I’m not really surprised you’ve never been asked to talk about RSS. It’s a shame in a way.

I remember talking to others I worked with about how good, and innovative, and useful RSS was about 5 years ago. Even most of the web designers I worked with back then, didn’t know what the heck I was on about.

A few have since gone on to adopt it.

I still use RSS myself, and in fact, for me, Feedly has given it a new lease of life here. I’m well aware it’s really icing on the top of Google Reader, but I like to useful functions such as being about to post comments directly into Friendfeed, or push a link to Facebook, or to Twitter.

I really like Twitter, and Friendfeed, but I’ll continue feed reading too right now.

tweet tweet tweet my brain tweet tweet has been tweet tweet abducted by a banal tweet tweet communications tool tweet tweet that will be obsolete tweet tweet in 2 years tweet tweet so that’s how tweet tweet I got this job with TechCrunch TWEET!

I disagree. This is pure FUD. RSS and Twitter are completely different tools. You’re using it wrong. Twitter will never replace RSS until Twitter feeds become more organised. It’s just too much all at once, filled with mostly junk and noise.

No – they didn’t.

Google Reader is a single consolidated page of the information I want. If I opened the equivalent number of tabs as articles I scan in Google Reader, my browser would be brought to it’s knees.

And for scanability, tabs in their current state can’t possibly compete with a feed aggregator.

i disagree. i stopped using local RSS feed readers such as outlook and thunderbird, and started using Google Reader so i could read my news on any computer and have it marked accordingly. plus i know my sources have content i like.

twitter still has a lot of noise behind it. if anything, people who tweet news-worthy material, probably get their stuff from RSS.

so to say that RSS is dead is ridiculous.

As I write this comment the top trending topics on Twitter are: Adam Lambert, KFC, American Idol, Allison, Oprah, Swine Flue, Danny Gokey, Star Trek, #ftsk and Mavs, none of which interest me personally. Now I go over to my Feedly powered Google Reader and I can look at a combination of search feeds and blog feeds specific to my interests all integrated with the social networking apps I use. If I find an article I like I can immediately see the related friendfeed conversations – it’s the best of both worlds. I really can’t see one without the other from the standpoint of being able to effectively filter content that’s relevant to me.

Well, Twitter has something more personal than a business blog.

On Twitter, you can deliver your new blog posts, but you usually add during the day a lot of comments and thoughts well behind the simple posts.

At least, when someone subscribe to your RSS feed, they know they will only get the posts. On Twitter, they just don’t know what they will get and suddenly they face what is often perceived as a lot more noise than a simple stream of posts.

Secondly, before reading a post, I usually go through the excerpt. It is not a lot of info but gives already a good idea where the post will take me.

Making that choices on Twitter is far more difficult because there is only 140 char. People able to make a good summary of their posts + link in 140 char a just real good marketing people.

But to be honest, most of us are not. Still the content of the post might be excellent and just because your are not the best man to write down a great 140 char summary people are going to miss your excellent posts.

Who are the right people?

Guys and girls, dumping RSS, email, blogs, etc for Twitter is pure idiocy. You are proposing we throw away open, vendor agnostic systems for lock-in! Why dump an open standard for a PROPRIETARY, PRIVATE COMPANY!? Wake up, fools! Despite how cool Ev and company are, its dangerous how people like Arrington are moving people. I can’t believe all the lemming behavior going on here! At this rate, in 5 years, Twitter will own all of you (and your bases). Somebody should punch you all in the face!

I find it fascinating how the ways we access information is in flux. The comments to your post show that not everyone’s heading in the same direction.

Think about it! This is only something that somebody who really, REALLY wants Twitter to take over communication would propose. Its crazy.

Well, I’m so glad that I have now filtered you out of my RSS reader so I don’t have to read anymore of your drivel. Seem how effective that is? Saves me from wasting anymore time on you.

Go blow it out your tweeter.

Could we please some postings other than Twitter and Facebook?

um, no, you are completely wrong, you still need rss if friendfeed uses it… heh, stfu

I’ve thought about this trend recently, wouldn’t this be solved by Google Reader adding a real-time feed, so new stories come in as they’re posted.

Admitedly it wouldn’t solve the content discovery problem, as the real-time feed would only be for the feeds you’ve subscribed to.

Perhaps they could add a trending topics or suggested blogs module on the side ?

Anyone from google reading this ? Google Reader is great, but it’s time for an update.

[...] like feeds are popular enough to get criticized. I use feeds regularly to follow people. I think feeds work really well when you use them to follow [...]

BTW, did you Dave’ post the other day on what a first time twitter user sees ?

marketing and drivel… sounds like my local free-to-air TV

5 stars 4 ya

RSS is a transport protocol. Saying its “dead” because something different has come along that is “fashionable” is about as meaningful as saying electric power lines are dead because cell phones are “it”. Outside of Steve’s narrow usage model, Its a baseless and meaningless comparison.

Rather than toss out abstract discussion points on transport technologies or make vague techno-pithy comments such as “social management of the ecosystem”, I’ll simply provide my counter example: my.yahoo.com

My entire yahoo page is a carefully crafted collection of 15 RSS feed widgets from all my favorite “highly qualified” providers (including TC, from which I found this post). Such a info-dense layout allows me to do a quick scan of those “RSS feeds” to get immediately caught up on all current news in all information vectors I’m interested in…including “Andy Capp”.

As in any “UGC vs Skill Content Professional” fight, one high quality piece of content, or provider, will always triumph over an incalculable number of “low signal-to-noise ratio” information “spooge” feeds. As such, the RSS mechanism delivers EXACTLY what is needed, with little fanfare and network overhead, and certainly no more than what is requested.

Hope this is just a joke… I am actually updating about your posts through the RSS feeds and I even have not a Twitter account… please do not be rush

RSS’ dead and inferior to Twitter? Uh, hell no.

Sameer said…
Few know what RSS

Hehe, I am one of those.

I don’t agree TechCrunch! RSS is alive and well suited to my needs, especially since I discovered Feedly for Firefox.

The issue with RSS is that users tend to oversubscribe and end up with a lot of unwanted junk. The Feedly way is to organise that in a beautiful digest format with ability to mark your favourite blogs.

Twitter on the other hand is available in a variety of applications that aren’t always complete. I have resorted to Tweetie for Mac that handles multiple accounts beautifully but not groups.

And Twitter comes a lot more junk! At least with RSS I chose to subscribe, where as Twitter I have no choice in knowing what my favourite blogger is having for dinner. Alas I still find them junk tweets amusing.

I spend half my working day on RSS..

I signed up for Twitter, used it for a week, got bored, end of story….

So I think the natural conclusion involves some sort of social RSS functionality. There are clearly advantages and disadvantages to consuming content on the RSS-platform versus the Twitter-platform.

I’m attempting to remedy this dilemma as we speak….until then….

Stupidest thing I’ve ever read. RSS delivers full news items and updates directly to me in the manner and device I want. Twitter delivers me 140 characters about someone’s bowel movement or how long the line they’re standing in at the bank is.

People who flock to twitter are braindead. Twitter’s only use is in stroking the egos of the media. That’s why the only people who really pimp it out are people with podcasts, television shows, movies, bands and other content. And you already have somethign for that. It’s called RSS+ a website.

*Yawn*.

Move along.

For those of us that don’t have time to sit in front of TweetDeck or Seesmic Desktop and click on all the tweets promoting blogs in real time… RSS is still king.

I love my GooReader because it allows me to consume my news on my own time.

RSS and Atom aren’t dead, but rather in the shadows. They’re the glue and a form of XML which helps disparate systems interchange information. Users may not know what it is or what it can do for them, but many use it without knowing it.

For example, because clearly we need one or two or three…

We love feeds; you can use them in many more ways than in Google Reader or another reader. We use them for widgets, so you could create a widget with recent Tweets from Twitter and embed it into your blog or a reader. If feeds didn’t exist, you couldn’t do this very easily.

But here’s a better example, if I like to get news from a foreign news website, but don’t feel like putting it through Google Translator each day, I can use BlastCasta’s feed translation tool and created a translated feed from that website and add this new feed to my reader.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. I think feed usage is more B2B rather than B2C, but as more web savvy users enter the web, the more conscious the web as a whole will become of the power of feeds.

Feed Translator: http://www.blastcasta.com/translate-feed.aspx

What do the Beatles or Abbey Road have to do with Twitter or RSS?

nonsense.

let’s see how prescient you are in a year.

Twitter is 140 characters of vacuous. I still use RSS and love it. It’s not shiny and new, so that may be a downside for the hype cycle, but it is quite valuable.

I disagree.

While twitter is great, it serves a purpose and is not universal.

Do you get picture feeds or other media with twitter?

No.

Can you group things natively…Air is a pig of a framework–for organization and time management?

No.

Can you follow a help topic with sample code on a dev forum?

No.

Again, twitter is great at many things, but so is RSS.

Sure, twitter will take some of RSS’s thunder, but they are two different tools which serve different purposes.

I swear this town can’t keep perspective on anything in moderation. Everything is super hot or dead. Nothing in the middle.

Google Reader is my bedrock for information about what interests me. Twitter is the moss, supplementing my core ‘intelligence’ with useful and interesting information links. Together, they build a healthy mini eco-system.

Who’s fault is it if people/blogs/companies are pushing their contents via Twitter on top of RSS?

Who’s fault is it if people are bored with Google Reader’s lack of innovation and now finding Twitter a new toy to play with the same old game?

Certainly not those who invented RSS and certainly not those who have no control of where the innovation is taking us forward.

I love both: I use both. I enjoy reading from both. The real world does not revolve around technology; technology aids development but in itself does not give any value to the social environment unless people start using it. Twitter is transient and dynamic, RSS is the fridge magnet that lets you hold on to an important note you would want to use at your personal or critical convenience.

Tony,

FriendFeed is something you will want to dive into (deeply) and pronto. The aggregation is what got me in, but the real-time is what got me to stay.

The whole site is fully real-time. Post appear in real-time, as well as comments on those posts. The search is (soon to be) real-time and very powerful with all the metadata that you can use as extra options for your search. Group funtionality is also powerful, and can be private (the old imaginary friends on ff) or public/semi-public.

Then there’s the moderation. It’s decentralized, so you control items under your posts and when you block someone they no longer see you and you no longer see them – anywhere.

Basically you can pipe any of the 57+ services plus any rss/atom feed into FriendFeed as either something that is under your username and others who subscribe to you will see, or as a group where depending on your group’s privacy settings it will be seen by only you or anyone who happens upon the group.

There’s a lot more in the ‘little things’ department about FriendFeed that make it so great (and if I’ve missed anything speak up), but as far as I can see it’s FriendFeed 24/7/365.25 for me.

~Chris Heath (ccheath)

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I arrived here via Feedly, which uses my RSS feeds. I’d say RSS is growing and is far from dead, it may just be working more behind the scenes, It does drive a lot of applications and services people are now starting to use.

I’ll share this via Stumbleupon, which will spread via users much like tweeting it to friends… but RSS will get a hold of my initial stumble share and then post’s it to my Friendfeed, then in turn gets tweeted… Which, We can thank RSS for.

I’d rather find sites with the help of good articles being shared then decide on my own if I’d like to hear back from this sites articles anytime in the future via a RSS reader (Greader+Feedly) or the next great way of how we read/sort feeds.

I agree, RSS is in decline, and it’s not a Twitter killer, but Twitter won’t kill RSS either. Twitter is just another Del.icio.us, but for phones too.

good for you then. i couldn’t live without rss and google reader.

Lemming behavior runs rampant in the tech world and I’m not even in it, I just keep up with the news…even so, it’s all about seeing positives of technological advances rather than spending even a second on the negatives that comes with blindly adopting them.

Twitter is no Godsend as TC claims but all it takes is a TC search for ‘twitter’ and you’ll see how much in bed they are.

More dangerous than Arrington & Co.’s love of Twitter is their unknowing love of the UN Agenda 21. They fully support the carbon taxation scam. One can care about the environment without falling into the trap set by Dr. Allegory and friends.

Twitter is just a fad. RSS changed the way we consume news forever.

I disagree, as other stated RSS is plumbing. Very useful when you’re thinking of different devices and contexts. If we think of RSS as a web tool it may be dead in a few years, but if we think of using that channel and put it into a very focused situation in a context that doesn’t depend on desktops, laptops or mobile devices (like delivering certain data constantly) to other apps, it becomes an incredible tool to take the web away from your desk.

“Ordinary people” are able to get a wide range of information using RSS, while twitter is fine for the self-proclaimed elite, who must follow all the right people.
I use Twitter mainly as a social network, and I think probably 90% of Twitter uses do too. I have unfollowed many pundits, but I rarely give up a good feed.
I still use RSS to keep me informed about things I don’t expect my social network to communicate about.
RSS lives for me despite the lack of a great receiving platform.

RSS is dead? Are you smoking crack or something?

You’re right, but the best thing about twitter is if you’re away for hours you really technically didn’t miss anything WORTH going back for.

My goodness. No wonder you’ve been relegated to the IT blog where no one can really see you. I won’t be reading any of your post beyond what I’ve quoted below. Try to push the writing quality up beyond Blogspot levels. Even better punctuation on your part will suffice for now.

Mind you I am an absolute hypocrite: I have no standards at all for how commentators write as long as they make sense on any level at all and are fairly relevant to the OP in some way. The OP, on the other hand, should rise to a higher standard.

“The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it’s not worth swimming in if you get my drift.”

You are making me flinch with the punctuation you forgot to use on that.

“I’ve done the math: Twitter 365 Google Reader 0. All my RSS feeds are in Google Reader. I don’t go there any more. Since all my feeds are in Google Reader and I don’t go there, I don’t use RSS anymore.”

Flinching some more. It *could* be good with some tweaking, but it’s just blunt and unappetizing, like reading a Twitter update via TC IT with barely a bit more formatting and style than the Twitter version would have – actually, I’ve seen better stuff on Twitter. Perhaps you should stick to podcasts?

And RSS is dead? My instinct is to say no, but my instinct is wrong. Yes. And it probably should be dead. But Twitter as the replacement? When it starts automatically aggregating my content, maybe.

I completely disagree with the article and completely agree with Bernard. There is a lot more junk on Twitter, and stuff flies by too fast. I use Netvibes to aggregate all of my news sources via RSS. Twitter is for my friends – RSS though Netvibes is for my news, and I will never, ever want to combine the two.

I guess that depends on who you’re following now doesn’t it. I’m pretty sure YOU select your RSS feeds, so you are filtering your own information no differently then you choose who you want to follow to filter out who’s had what for breakfast and who’s headed to so and so for such and such conference..

anyone know how to automatically submit posts to twitter? like a tutorial.

boos helps me get down the stairs with style
http://www.epiclosers.com/load/8-1-0-309

And yet, a user’s twitter timeline is available as an rss feed.

I agree that Twitter and other social networking sites have been a great help to content writers. It has been a great avenue to post new contents.

this article is nothing more than a flame bait – ridiculously stupid.

RSS & Twitter are different products and cannot be treated as alternates to each other.

RSS is loved for its ability to Auto subscribe/publish content to/from Sites / Blogs. The way information has been standardized on RSS is yes to be achieved with Twitter.

RSS feed content lasts more, unlike a ‘Tweet’ that is lost in the public-timeline practically in less than 5 seconds.

Twitter will give you all tweets, even the ones you dont want. All links (small urls) without telling you where they belong and what they have., compare the same with RSS – you have the content right in there.

And hey.. Twitter too gives you a RSS feed for your followers – http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/19055557.rss )

RSS is here to stay (for long); but has not got its credit.

If you have to ask…

For me RSS > Twitter by leaps and bounds.

Twitter IS great for getting tid bits that bubble to the surface, BUT, in its essence…its a stream of shit. I find some shit interesting, some boring.

My feeds are all quality – no idea who there big bad RSS pushers are. They certainly arent in my google reader…Also…you have been using google reader for…months?

Months?

Meeeeh.

Anyway, I turn to the net for design inspiration – nothing better than RSS feeds to awesome blogs for that.

Also use it for new programming techniques and emergent technology: the finger on that pulse is well and truely blogs.

Hell, I found this article through friend feed.

Hate to break it to you, but this article is nothing short of idiotic.

Despite what you and your nerdy friends might think, the vast majority of people don’t have time to patrol their twitter accounts 24 hours a day. They also don’t really care if you are tying your shoe, taking a dump, or walking to get a loaf of bread.

For the most part, RSS serves blog posts and articles that are thought out and that CONTAIN information from the most relevant tweets. Someone else is doing the work and YOU, as an RSS Subscriber, are benefiting from their hard work and writing skills.

Twitter is a fad. It will die. Or more likely, be swallowed. But to look at your own little world and think that Twitter is going to defeat RSS is absolutely ridiculous.

You need to get out more.

I read the first couple sentences of this in my google reader. The author is an idiot.

I agree. “j”ing down the page and “v”ing anything worth reading in full (or checking the comments for) is convenient. I can star a page for as long as I’m participating in its discussion.

For me, RSS is to Twitter as listening is to overhearing.

Steve….I think that your post is a greart PR piece for Twitter…..Do you own stock ?….By any chance are they paying you anything back for the content that you give them, and that now has them about to be purchased for hundreds of milllions of dollars ?
Oh and Steve I m sure that the founders will happily give you a precenage of the what they sell for; after all it was your content and avid evangilism that put them where they are today….Just to warp up…RSS is an open standard…Twitter is a closed source and therefore you and all the other users of service are slaves with no where else to go

TechCrunch notes on their advertising page that you can buy ad space on their RSS feed.

So I guess I should start using Twitter to advertise and not use TechCrunch’s RSS feed?

I would never stop using my RSS and go to twitter. I can’t keep up with twitter as it is. I read my RSS everyday. I don’t even read all of my twitter b/c I get like 500 a day.

I haven’t used Google Reader ever but is it anything like Netvibes? I love that thing, it’s the simple most useful site I have in my history. Perhaps it’s not the tech but the tool?

I follow 2 people on Twitter and I couldn’t care less particuarly but my RSS feeds bring in around 200 websites, it’s like crack to me…. sad sad lonely nerd that I am

CRAZY! If Twitter had come first – and then RSS – we would be talking about how RSS has brought badly needed organization and peace to information gathering. The Twitter “real-time” flood tamed to something that is digestable to those who don’t live on the internet 24/7.

Steve Gillmor is a fun read but he has literally never written anything that has actually transpired in any meaningful way.

My prediction is that someone, maybe Google, will recast the rss reader as with a twitter or friendfeed user interface

And that resulting real time stream of rss will no longer be semi-public lokced behind some ill-fomed locked silo.

But than again my official rss reader has become both twitter and friendfeed with me only opening up GoogleReader once per week.

I subscribe to the RSS feed for this TechCrunchIT blog, so I received this provocative article in my RSS reader.

Agree. The author of this post will probably be thinking about the possibility of twitter replacing operating systems or computer languages in the near future.

RSS is dead? I’m not that sure about it.
I wouldn’t even read this article if RSS wasn’t there.

It feels as though stories like this get posted to TechCrunch, with the editors knowing it makes little-to-no sense and will simply create buzz. The headline is extremely misleading. Perhaps “Op Ed: RSS is dead” would be better.

And yes. Twitter is going to replace email, Facebook, and now RSS. Twitter will replace the internet. Just like Facebook was going to…oh, wait.

They’re all just fads. Twitter is a fun site for narcissists. There’s some good data to be gleaned from masses tweeting. At the end of the day it’s a small company without revenue (AAPL has not yet acquired it). Where will it be in a few years? Who knows. I promise RSS will be around as it’s a format not a service.

-Blake

Whit the Brief extention in Firefox RSS is still the way to keep me updated.

Using Twitter? oO That would mean I’d have to click every link that gets posted to just get an idea of what the article is about.

With Brief I get all the (full) stories on one page with out having to load all the sites I’m subscribed to.

And Twitter still is a useless “Oh look at me – I’m twittering while taking a dump and got nothing interesting to say, bu I just wanted to let you know that because I can” website to me and always will be.

The sad and annoying thing is that 50-60% of all the articles in my RSS reader are talking about Twitter. !pleh

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I’m with u Marah. Does anybody knows how to tweak TC to ignore Gillmor’s posts? maybe a webmonkey script? I NEED IT!

I can’t stand Twitter. RSS keeps me posted whenever I site updates, I don’t need to hear about what someone had for check updates.

my point exactly thanks.

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If TC uses RSS feeds, and RSS is dead, then… TC is dead! This Gilmor guy does not have a clue about the importance of RSS.

Sorry to pee in your Cheerios, but there’s a stark conflict of interest here: the author gets paid to move on to the next latest thing. It benefits him to poo-pooh the last technological tool in favor of a new one.

Notice also that unlike TechCrunch proper, there is no Twitter field in the comment info box here.

u forgot to mention… Gilmor’s next post will be “Twitter will replace Operating Systems in 2 years” or perhaps.. “Twitter killed the browser”!!!

Okay, I am unsubscribing from TechCrunch then.

P.S. Twitter sucks

Dave, I would attend that talk. I know there are others who would too. Not only do I use Google Reader everyday, I aggregate my activity feeds into a lifestream that dates back to mid 2002. The lifestream is only growing in usefulness over time.

Ridiculous. How can you seriously call Twitter the replacement for RSS when I *can’t even see what link I’m about to visit*?

Or maybe you enjoy receiving a ton of the follow: “Very cool link, check it out: http://bit.ly/…“. Yes, very useful.

Right, One this ‘opinion’ is a copy of the mashable article a few day’s ago.
Two, this is such an echo chamber driven opinion.

There is just no way that a ‘real time’ channel with so much noise as Twitter can provide you with news the way RSS can.

piffle and balderdash….you are comparing apples with pears.

This is either just another article trying to keep Twitter in the headlines as the saviour of mankind or its a complete p*ss take.

You got shares in Twitter then Dave.

Strikes me there is a lot of pump and dump going on at the moment. A few interested parties are trying to hype Twitter to the sky so that either Google or Microsoft feel they have to buy it sooner rather than later at a massive price.

Steve Gillmor is correct–RSS (as an end-user technology) is dead. But most of you all don’t get why. RSS was always about plumbing; geeks and early adopters tried to make RSS about end-user consumption. Remember, these are the same people who thought “XML” in orange letters was an acceptable UX to tell users that there was an RSS feed on the page.

Outside of the geek/techie echo chamber, I’ve never seen intentional mainstream use of RSS readers. Most regular folks were using RSS’s plumbing on their iGoogle and MyYahoo portal pages without realizing that’s what they were doing. And now that the destination web and portals have been eclipsed by a new generation of services (Twitter, FriendFeed, etc.), RSS will return to its rightful place as infrastructure and not something most folks need to be concerned about.

I’m having the same experience as Steve–I get all of my interesting and useful links to check out via Twitter. I hardly ever open a RSS reader anymore. In fact, the quality of the links is so much higher than when I just subscribed to stuff and I get to see stuff I would never know about because the people I follow pass along such good stuff.

The dynamism of Twitter is what blows a RSS reader away. I love getting tweets from folks at conferences or events (like the Technology Tasting at Facebook last week) as it happens. RSS doesn’t help with that.

You’re an idiot.

My thoughts exactly.

What a load of bullsh*t – just because the author is a news junkie who needs his fix every 5 seconds, that doesn’t mean RSS is dead. It may be dead for realtime news delivery (in fact, it was never alive for that), but for most other uses, it’s pretty much alive and kicking. I don’t subscribe to feeds that get updated 20 times a day anyway – but for all those useful sites that I don’t visit several times a day and would still hate missing when they are updated, Google Reader is my friend and will be for the foreseeable future. Oh, and it doesn’t limit me to 140 characters either, so I can actually get *useful* information instead of compressed information fast (junk) food.

steve, u r such a moron, if u and some freaks like u have abandoned technologies like email, forums, rss and live 7/24 on twitter, (which is really stupid) it does not mean the technology is dead, you the geeks, u do not define standards, u r the testers dude, do not forget it.

One starts to wonder if you’ve even used RSS or Twitter. I follow over 400 RSS feeds with Google Reader. Try doing that using Twitter with absolutely no features to organize or group feeds.

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I second that… senseless…

When! When is this stupid flaw of twitter promotion is going to end?

How much did twitter had to pay you to promote it like that.

Almost every second post is about f*ng twitter

W T F

Techcrunch has lost its mind lately. It is becoming stupid day by day. Comparing RSS with Twitter. What a stupid guy?
How to organize, search, manage, save content with Twitter like u can do with RSS?
and moreover twitter is not built for taking over the functionality of RSS. it is just an update service. not a content syndication technology.

do u even deserve to be a technology blogger?
why dont u shut down techcrunch instead of showing ur stupid side to the world

I got to this blog post through my RSS reader. If I was completely on twitter, i would definitely have missed it in the unmanageable stream of updates…….u fucking idiot

If twitter wants to own me, then own me

That’s the problem with Twitter. It’s too hipster, “in-crowd” for receiving information.

I got to this blog post through my RSS Reader. and if i was completely on twitter, i would have definitely missed it in the unmanageable stream of updates…….
and one more thing, u think RSS is dead. why don’t u kill the feeds of your site Techcrunch. why bother to have them even RSS is no more used??? huh

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Don’t agree. I have roughly 350 RSS-Feeds I follow working as an IT Journalist. And I can keep tabs on everyone of them, thanks to my RSS-Reader. This is simply not possible in twitter.

hahaha nice way to stir up a lot of obvious comments.

For me, Twitter, del.icio.us, etc. are sometimes used by people to spread news and links to their friends. But at the end of the day, what you get is limited to your contacts taste.

RSS feed on the other hand, is like a big pipe, and you are the one who has to filter what to read and what to skip using certain tools or even using your own eyes.

And that’s why, I cannot see how one of the above two sources can kill the other. They are complementary services to me.

In other news techcrunch fully supports this idea and RSS is being removed from the site because the 300,000+ people using it are obviously wrong?

Let’s not be confused between RSS and Twitter. RSS is a technology for syndication while Twitter is a service. A fairer comparison would be between Google reader and Twitter.
BTW, if you’re interested in finding out what you should follow or read on twitter, I recommend you to try http://www.feedmil.com.

Let’s not be confused between RSS and Twitter. RSS is a syndication technology while Twitter is a service.
A fairer comparison would be Google Reader vs. Twitter.
BTW, if you’re interested in finding out what you should read or follow on twitter, I’d recommend you to try http://www.feedmil.com

+1: Stupid article. Will be amusing to see this already irrelevant technology journalist continue to do his job with twitter as his only source.

Total flame bait and it worked perfectly. Over 200 comments and counting. Well done!

sorry. total BS

I think Steve is making the classic mistake of taking the way *he* uses a technology and assuming that’s the way that *everyone* uses it.

Sometimes, information finds me. In that context, Twitter works. But for some things, I want to actively get information – and in that context, RSS and feed readers work.

Indeed: I was notified on this article via Twitter, not via RSS

I dumped my RSS reader as well. I use feedly and iGoogle. RSS is *not* dead, our use of an RSS reader is. RSS is too useful to die.
I live in a village. I use google news and RSS to keep up with the village news. On the dutch ebay I have RSS feeds for certain products on sale within a 5 mile radius of where I live. Great for looking for a good local deal!

dream on. twitter will be gone the second the figure how to monetize it and all the telcos will be over it in a picosecond

Attn: Steve Gillmor

You suck. Instead of being concise, you try for poetic indulgence. If you know anyone with original ideas that aren’t just bait, please encourage them to write for TechCrunch. I hope a replacement will be found soon. Thanks!

I hope Apple buys Twitter, so we can finally tell who the fags are.
(See how easy it is to bait?)

[...] Gillmor thinks RRS is dead and that Twitter is its [...]

omg, written by an old man purporting to be a young man who is sooo radical, totally ludicrous. yeah i agree twitter is good, but it to be a total replacement of news feeds when it is at such a to-be-refined stage is hyperbole, at its very least. almost as ridiculous as arringtons infamous ‘Twitter!’ post. calm down gillmor, u wont get too far on twitter’s one-half-and-hard-to-find-the-other-half conversations. there’s a better way coming, just take it easy

ARE YOU OWNERS OF TWITTER? All you do is write how great Twitter is!

I think Twitter is mainstream and full of junk…compared to my RSS reader that actually makes me a better Twitter user as I can post the most relevant information as soon as it hits the news, blogs etc.

[...] RSS war gestern, Twitter ist heite: Rest in Peace, RSS [...]

honestly, i just had to stop reading this man’s kak, “I swam in the brisk waters of the RSS river” u what mate!? i was actually feeling sick, i couldnt get to end, so melodramatic

I *think* this article is supposed to be serious. But it reads like satire. Pretty funny anyway.

Completely agree wth the “Father of RSS”, Dave Winer- RSS is just plumbing.

[...] Rest in Peace, RSS — 23:50 via Delicious It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just [...]

i think you are mistaking rss and twitter for what they are and what their purpose is. twitter can be used to update an audience that there is something to be read, but this should be secondary to share information.

twitter is microblogging, rss allows you to aggregate blogs and news in a way that twitter will never do. update twitter if you must with your blog post, but do not make this your primary use of twitter, it’s not a great way to reach your audience.

Please … RSS is not dead … I still use it … without it I won’t be able to track the news, follow flickr updates etc.

Twitter is nice, but still has to much noise (chats) to track.

And implementing a RSS feed is a piece of cake.

why don’t you shut your pretty mouth?

Here’s the point: I get my web links from twitter now, not from Google reader.

popurls.com // popular today…

story has entered the popular today section on popurls.com…

funny thing, i tried the other way up and finally (re)installed a rss reader yesterday to catch up with all the stuff from bookmarks, blogs etc.

totally agree. to think that Steve is not clued up enough to realize the only way to effectively track keywords on twitter is through RSS is unbelievable. i guess he just sits in front of his TweetDeck and watches the feed full time, haha !

As many have said before, this article is ridiculous, and obviously flame-bait. I do enjoy some of Techcrunch’s articles that are more entertainment/amusing rather than news, but this is straight-up junk. I am a bit disappointed to see an article like this.

There have been more and more ridiculous posts on this site, but this one has got to be one of the worst.

Do you use podcasts? Then you use RSS.

I’ll be referring to this post the next time I see the Fail Whale.

I think it’s another one of those – damned if you do; damned if you don’t cases.

If you have a site with RSS it also makes sense for people to subscribe to email updates as well as Twitter and possibly Facebook, etc.

It is becoming more important for the supplier to cater for how the consumer wants to receive the items rather than the supplier dictating how the consumer WILL get it.

In my case, my Twitter followers do outnumber my feed subscribers.

J

I obvioulsy meant “If you have a site with RSS it also makes sense for people to HAVE THE CHOICE TO subscribe via email updates as well as Twitter and possibly Facebook, etc.”

Doh!

If you use WordPress there’s a plug-in I use called Twitfeed :0)

J

Agreed, sounds like it was written by a 5 year-old.

I haven’t been in Google Reader for months. Google Reader is the dominant RSS reader. I’ve done the math: Twitter 365 Google Reader 0. All my RSS feeds are in Google Reader. I don’t go there any more. Since all my feeds are in Google Reader and I don’t go there, I don’t use RSS anymore. Mom picked me up from school today. Mom drives a silver Volvo.

[...] TechCrunchIT, Steve Gillmor argues “RSS doesn’t cut it anymore” and that “RSS is a shell [...]

RSS will slowly disappear be hey, let’s not write about it for it might anger some.

So who paid you to write this post? So ridiculous. I read this post in an RSS reader. Twitter is limited to 140 characters. No embedded media such video or images. Who says I want to read all my post in real time anyway. Just because its what you want doesn’t mean it’s what the entire population wants. Twitter is not a protocol nor a standard, it is a service. It’s ridiculous to think that someone should build their service completely around someone else’s service, if twitter starts charging or charges a ridiculous price your complete business model could collapse. Or it is ridiculous to not continue to use an open standard. Look at what has happened with
things like internet explorer or firewire in which refuse to agree or use an open compliant protocol. Also with RSS I can catagorize things (a.k.a. a taxonomy). Twitter is also riddled with bots and 60% of the people who sign up quit using it after the first month. It is the new fad. 2 years from now it will be something else, maybe back to RSS with semantic capabilities mashed up with this real time stream garbage that everything thinks is so awesome. In fact if twitter is so awesome, why didn’t you write this post on twitter instead of your website?

[...] Steve suggested that RSS – the syndication system that powers the web today – is dead.  He writes: It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t [...]

RSS isn’t dead or even dying, ridiculous article. You can’t use Twitter for everything.

[...] by Gianni on May 6, 2009 Steve Gillmor says here he isn’t using RSS anymore. [OT, can someone explain the FabFour reference? [...]

All my RSS feeds are in Google Reader. I don’t go there any more. Since all my feeds are in Google Reader and I don’t go there, I don’t use RSS anymore.

You should have repeated it one more time, because I didn’t get it the first time when you said I don’t go there I don’t go there…

twitter is stoopid.

Just to point out that

a) you’re NOT notusing RSS anymore – you may be not using an RSS READER anymore (and Google’s IMHO doesn’t hold a candle to Netvibes)

b) none of these are relevant, as these XML-enabled streams are inesorably gravitating back to the browser. Which explains why Google is splurging on Chrome istead of making Reader just a tiny little bit less brain-dead

c) Twitter is already subsumed by Twitter clients’ functionality – once they lose ID (and Faceborg or Firefox have hundreds of millions of them, bam! History

This article is ridiculous. How can you compare Twitter to RSS? They are both completely different things which can be used for completely different things.

(1) A site can have RSS feeds for lots and lots of different things, they aren’t going to make a seperate Twitter account for all of these.

(2) You can read the blog post in your RSS reader whereas you have to navigate away using Twitter.

(3) With Twitter you have no choice but to read the persons other tweets (not just post notifications), if you didn’t want to do that and given number 2 why the hell wouldn’t you just use and RSS reader.

(4) Your whole argument is just stupid, ‘I don’t use RSS any more so OBVIOUSLY it’s a dying technology LULZ, forget the 2.1 million people who subscribe to TC’.

(5) Reading the comments in this article by the author, he seems like a complete douchebag, screw him.

…and I still don’t get the Betles reference, call me thick!

Uh. No.

Twitter produces informatic mediocrity.
I do not need someone I don’t know “filtering” the web for me. I’m competent like that . Twitter is The Peter Principle applied to crowd sourcing. What it really does is keep people from articulating larger ideas then having people be critical about those ideas. In this way people are still communicating but not really. Which for most small minds is a blessing.

Steve sez:
“there is no such thing as no information bias.”

Obviously you have never studied informatics.

All Twitter does is appeal to people who have nothing worth saying i the first place.

There is also this. I don’t follow I lead.

i third that!

[...] an article published in yesterday’s TechCrunch, Gilmor pronounces the death of RSS (Really Simple Syndication). He even proclaimed that Twitter is [...]

This is shameful idolatry. RSS replacing Twitter?

I am looking for a way to get my Twitter feeds using RSS

[...] TechCrunchIT writes that it’s the end for RSS [...]

goodnight sweet prince
RIP RSS (1999-2009)

[...] TechCrunchIT écrit que c’est la fin du RSS [...]

Adam,

You have far too much sense to waster your time here.

RSS is a godsend for people that want to stay up to date but don’t hog twitter. And guess what? There will be far fewer Twitter users in a few months.

I wouldn’t call it dead. Or dying – it’s barely begun to live.

When Google finally releases their public cloud access terminal, and regular people use cloud services more and more, you’ll see RSS really come into its own. It’s the best way to surf the web, without actually surfing the web.

Agreed – apples and oranges and further more I got so many useless interruptions from twits, I ditched it.

I will cry if RSS starts to disappear. How else could I mash up 15 sites and view full articles in line?

Twitter is an outlet for attention whores and useless. Get over it already.

Who is this schmuck ,really? RSS still serve the due purpuose. I still certainly find it useful to get my updates from a single source of my choosing , away from the noise of the crowds.
Having said that Twitter in itself is v useful too, i foe crowd source a lot of things and run searches. He of all people should be aware that emrgence of one technology doesnt just kill the other, although we are inclined to believe in such things.
Just the other day John C Dvorak , wrote and article about how Social Networks killed Email. I and many other millions use it for a reliable day to day communications .
Thats the problem with punditry , its this percieved mastery of all that there is to know about things tech , that future predictions about deaths and dominance are made.Irresponsible journalism at its worst.

Over my dead cold hand…

[...] Reader in preparation of writing a post on a completely unrelated subject I happened across this craptastic piece of editorial bologna by Steve Gillmor at TechCrunchIT on the ostensible death of RS…. In his infinite wisdom Gillmor claims to have completely given up on his RSS reader in favor of [...]

[...] by Scott Adcox Scott Adcox’s Website // I saw this TechCrunch article (in my RSS reader) and found it very [...]

How many tweets do you need to write this post?

This is a stupid article, by a moron. Twitter doesn’t allow “full text” posts that you long for, and is just another shiny object for people to focus on for 30 seconds with their short attention spans.

Twitter is an extension of RSS; your article is the equivalent of saying “I like mashed potatoes but not raw potatoes.”

Idiot.

Hmm … I read this entire post on an RSS reader on my Blackberry, and viewed the past 20 TC posts. I was also able to view 10 other blogs’ most recent posts.

Is that possible with Twitter, without having to access a browser?

Comparing RSS and Twitter doesn’t make sense. Also, I don’t want to be stuck with one supplier so I’ll stick with RSS and use Twitter.

You can’t get out of twitter, in an efficient manner, what you can out of RSS and Google Reader. Sorry.

Then again, you can’t get out of Google Reader and RSS what you get out of Twitter.

Hell, you’re comparing apples and oranges.

[...] Today on Talk Social News we discuss Apple buying Twitter rumors, 3G chips coming to MacBooks and long live RSS – episode [...]

This article is just ridiculous. The notion that Twitter can “replace” RSS is ludicrous. I use RSS to keep track of topics on Twitter, not the other way around.

This tech author doesn’t know the difference between an internet XML standard and the applications which use the standard. RSS is a standard while Google Reader and Twitter are applications, both of which make use of the RSS standard.

This misconception also goes for some of the comments posted here.

Maybe separate client RSS Readers are dead, or unnecessary, since RSS is part of all browsers and most portals, but RSS dead? Might as well say HTML is dead. Not used as standalone much, but RSS and HTML and XML are some of the bones needed to keep the sexier stuff (and fluff) from collapsing on the floor as a glob of amorphous, gelatinous goop. Flame rating – 5

It appears that your audience doesn’t agree with you – and there is hard evidence that proves it – I actually glance at the Feedburner ticker at the bottom of your website from time to time – and I remember when it was three digits – it’s now at 5359 (I assume that’s 5.5 million subscriptions of your RSS feed). Correct me if I’m wrong but that number ain’t going down.

How do you compare an XML schema with a real time messaging service? One doesn’t impact the other. We all know where you’re coming from but saying that ‘RSS is dead’ really doesn’t make much sense and it does beg the question as to whether or not you’re being swept up with the rest of the media with Twitter-mania.

I just removed TC from my RSS. RSS is dead right?

Yeah I agree.. I did not like this article. It was very poorly written.

Nice linkbait.
And obviously I dont quite agree.
RSS is fine tuned according to my interests. With twitter thats not quite possible. Yes, I follow people with common interests, but even then they like a lot of stuff which I dont care about (say Football). Twitter is good..its an excellent source of new info..but I still mainly rely on RSS to stay updated.

+1 hooked by this flame-bait-tastic article.

Complete garbage. Go back to swimming in the brisk waters of self indulgence.

RSS is dead, eh? How ironic, then, that the reason I actually found this article is because the RSS entry showed up in my Google/ig page TC RSS gadget. Not only that, but the article itself, as well as most of the comments thereon are more than 140 characters.

Gotta wonder whether Mr. Gillmor spent any time at all thinking before he started writing. Could be that Twitter is well-suited for Mr. Gillmor; I’ve found that most ‘tweets’ are actually ‘TWITs’.

I like to think that when Twitter (or its ilk) comes to dominate communication, it will be an opportunity for those of us who are not attention-span-challenged to run your world for you.

RSS is dead? Yeah righ, you wish man!

[...] prognostiziert dies TechCrunch. Twitter, Facebook und FriendFeed anstatt RSS lautet die Devise. Ich glaube, eine ähnliche [...]

Stupid..I fire you!

Something that’s been vaguely alluded to here in these comments is the fact that Twitter is an interrupter. There’s something to be said (a lot IMHO) about _flow_ of thought; in other words, uninterrupted thought; in one word: meditation.

What Twitter does is:
1. Interrupts your thoughts
2. Forces you to digest _other_ people’s mostly trivial and banal thoughts when they’re not actively requested

In effect, you lose significant control over the thoughts in your mind. Your ability to formulate long chains of thought diminishes as you are constantly interrupted by new, mostly meaningless information. The possibility to gain deep insights based on extended meditation on a topic of knowledge diminishes.

In pop parlance: In a world of Pimps and Hos, you’re the Ho.

Grrrr, argh, snarl, what would that young upstart whipper snapper know about RSS anyway?

I think this is a crazy idea. Just look at how many twitter posts are fed by RSS!!! The 140 character limit is the hindering point here. How detailed can one be in a tweet on what their link is about? While it may be a great way to find new content, it will also increase the amount of visitors who came to the wrong page and leave right away.
And then there is the obvious one: RSS is a standard, twitter is a service.

RSS is Dead…

……

twitter biased article. tech crunch falling short of meaning ful news

At twitter, you would have hard time searching for the past.

With RSS, you can search for articles about the past and present then organize things easily.

RSS River is still alive and shouldn’t be thrown into the dumpsite of Mars.

[...] a bizarrely elegiac article up at TechCrunch claiming that Twitter is the new RSS.  In the end, I think this says more about Steve [...]

[...] No Comments  Just as I was asking about the similarities between Twitter and RSS, Tech Crunch writes an article about the very same question (only a week after I made my [...]

Wow, Techcrunch, your losing me.

I live in Google Reader. I haven’t touched and have no use for Twitter. And I’m sick of Techcrunch turning into article after article about Twitter.

Rather then RSS dying, Techcrunch is close to dying out of my RSS reader.

Get back to news please.

Twitter have images? Can read an entirely post?
Sorry i will stick with my netvibes.

another biased comment from tech crunch towards twitter. Looks like every thing in this world is going to converge into twitter.
I guess Boston globe was filing bankruptcy bcoz of twitter

[...] algo atascado, pero también puede que el editor de TechCrunchIT que ha escrito el post “Rest in Peace, RSS” se haya pasado de listo. En dicho artículo Steve Gillmor reflexiona sobre la tecnología [...]

I don’t think RSS is dead, far from it. I have SharpReader as my RSS client which slowly raises a small box at the right bottom of my screen, stays for a few seconds, then slowly descends. During the few seconds you get to glimpse at the summary line and decide whether you want to click on it for more. It works like a charm, much better than a web based reader like Google Reader IMO.

I use both RSS And Twitter but have found I prefer reading news headlines in my RSS reader so I can leave more room in my Twitter timeline for more interesting (and personal) stuff from real persons.

Good God. This is the dumbest idea I’ve read on TC and I’ve been following it for years.

Nice flame bait though.

RSS is useful because I don’t have to monitor it constantly. I can disconnect for an entire weekend, come back, and catch up on what I care about. Twitter is such a single-channel firehose, ‘catching up’, especially selectively catching up, is entirely impossible.

RSS has less mindshare. It’s plumbing.

Google Reader loses mindshare – completely.

Twitter becomes the easiest way to subscribe to an RSS feed – among other uses for Twitter.

Why struggle with Reader to gain 1,000 subscribers in a year, when Twitter delivers 45,000 followers/subscribers in 30 days. The click-thru is higher from Twitter, although the rate is lower; but given the magnitude difference – who cares

Game over. The people have voted and Reader is relegated to niche use. Twitter wins.

The concept of RSS is great – easy, quick and direct news. But okay Steve, maybe there is an issue – an issue of writers distributing their nonsense articles with RSS – somehow it just ruins the idea of RSS. Come on Steve, you can do better…

nice linkbait…
this article is ridiculous²

Is this article serious or a joke? Twitter replacing RSS? Maybe ATOM replacing RSS but not twitter lol. What a fucking joke.

Twitter is a fine tool for a tech trends blogger, who’s purpose is to pick up on trends and write about them. if your information needs involve tracking what the nerdiest nerds on the internet are buzzing about, Twitter is a great tool.

What about real people who need real information? Doctors, scientists, businesses, investors. To people who need real information from trusted sources, RSS is still a fantastic solution and Twitter is still a joke, or an interesting side conversation at best.

TCP is also dead
IPV4 is dead

(from the 1990′s)

“All my RSS feeds are in Google Reader. I don’t go there any more. Since all my feeds are in Google Reader and I don’t go there, I don’t use RSS anymore.

Of course, my friends use RSS, or they used to. Pretty much every blog has an RSS feed”

Worst….writing….evaaaaar….

Worst….reasoning….evaaaaar….

Twitter and RSS have as much in common as a a rock and pancakes, that is, they have nothing in common.

I think your understanding of the word dead is a problem. Work on that.

“… that’s FriendFeed using RSS, not me.”

You could say that you originally wired up your feeds to Google Reader, so that’s Google Reader using RSS, not you. In a broad sense, you’re saying you’ve never, ever, ever used RSS, but your flavor-of-the-month aggregator has.

Switching from one aggregator to another doesn’t mean the underlying technology is dead. Grow some credibility.

Twitter and RSS do different things, they can both do things that the other can’t, why do you keep trying to compare them?

I agree – this article is completely retarded (and thus flamebait). Well done Techcrunch.. you are now REMOVED from my RSS reader… ironic really…

Steve, if you only knew how much ignorance this article displays. Oh well.

Sorry, Alex, for being out of the loop. I’m brand new to this, only been following TechCrunch for about a month. Besides, looks like you’re twice my age, which has given you more time to enter that loop.

I agree with Bernard and Cory. I use RSS in Outlook 2007 to keep up with this and other related industry sites. At home, Twitter keeps me up to date on my personal interests.

I found this article via RSS…

RSS will be dead….eventually – steve just wanted to post this so in 5 years time he can say, told you so, i foresaw this yeeeeeears ago.

Dickhead

Never compare a technology with a product!

what a load of shit.

Looks like Techcrunch employs retards as writers for humanitarian reasons.

I get my Techcrunch news via RSS so maybe I should give up Techcrunch. How doesn’t Techcrunch’s twitter stream compare to the blog? No doubt less informative and no doubt less lucrative in advertising dollars to Techcrunch since you can’t plaster the site in banner ads. So do you really want everyone to give up RSS? If so, go ahead and see what happens if you suggest to Techcrunch IT that they disable RSS. If you’re actually going to publish your own random opinion as a directive to all of us then you should do it at your own company first.

There also really isn’t much of a comparison between twitter and rss. Twitter is a stream of random, unedited, and often completely useless thoughts. If you want to be constantly distracted, destroy your personal creativity and productivity then Twitter is a great service to latch on to.

RSS is a specification for the distribution of content in a form simple enough for thousands of applications and websites to consume. That’s all it is. While it can be used to distribute blog posts it is also used to distributed edited and truly thought-out and researched information.

If you gave up RSS for Twitter, you’re actually saying you’re giving up well thought out information in exchange for random thoughts. That would actually be a good experiment. Unplug someone from the world of real information and plug them only into twitter for a year. I have a feeling they’d come out sounding like an idiot, with disjointed facts and no depth to any information they had absorbed.

Or are you already conducting this experiment now?

TechCrunch paraphrasing a tech phenomenon already discussed in /Slate/ (http://is.gd/wi4a)???… Yikes.

Let the love I have for you
Live in your heart
And beat forever (together my love)
Forever
Forever
I’ve been so happy loving you

- The Beach Boys

… RSS will be around for a very long time yet. Two completely different tools and currently writing some feeds for health executives who i can’t imagine spending the time to filter Tweets. Even if they could, being able to read posts that have more substance can be very useful oftentimes.

Unbelievable, wish I could adequately describe how much nonsense I think this is, really make it clear how unbiasedly crazy I think this post is.

To get to the studio?

Gillmor’s post is a non-issue. And poorly written (he ‘seems’ to confuse gooReader with RSS) .

He knows that his arse already got handed to him in this comment section, otherwise he would have joined the discussion and defended this monument to failure of a blog post.

BUT YOU, SIR, YOU DON ULRICH,
you just made me kill off my (seldomly used) twitter account for good.

“I do not need someone I don’t know “filtering” the web for me. I’m competent like that”.
Exactly.

“I don’t follow I lead.”
You magnificent bastage.

if XXX isn’t on friendfeed you can still subscribe… that’s the beauty of friendfeed, just make a group (choose public or private) and then add all the accounts/services/feeds that you want.

Hahaha… Steve Gillmor, are you a comedian or something? Twitter and Facebook are services on the net that both make use of RSS. RSS is not a service, it is a technique to aggregate feeds. The thing you do is like comparing HTML with the Twitter and say that HTML can rest in peace cause Twitter is so much better. I look forward to see your program on Comedy Central, you are real funny man!

I, for one, dislike these social networking sites. Facebook, Twitter.. Nothing more than a way for people to waste their time. Rather than spending 3 hours a day on Facebook, I spend the time studying. Will these social sites replace RSS? Don’t be silly.

It’s funny how i read a story about how RSS is dead on my RSS reader. They’d have to rip the rss feed reader from my cold dead hands.

This is a moronic article. You fail.

This is BULL!
What is Steve Gillmor smoking?

I’m shocked to see that it was Steve Gillmor himself that was the author if this article. I think you used the wrong headline for this article because not even you can really believe that RSS is dead. It’s not dead, and will not die. What are you smoking? I don’t use RSS for news. I did it somewhat before, but my favorite RSS-reader stopped the development so I stopped using RSS. But RSS is used for allot of other stuff. Like podcasting. That is something that Twitter can never replace. Twitter is something else. It does not even play in the same league as RSS…

RSS is not dead. And may not rest in peace. This article however is dead, and SHOULD REST IN PEACE!

Does that mean that the tedious Gillmor Gang will also be shut down? After all, what will Steve do if he can’t ask “but what about RSS??” in every episode?

We could only be so lucky.

actually with friendfeed, i have more of an incentive to use it.

Yes. He probably has to star publish download links to the show via Twitter.

RSS dead? Utter nonsense, and ironic as I accessed this article via Google Reader.

Kinda agree. Although I use Twitter, I refuse to register at Facebook. For the first. It sounds disgusting. Face-Book… Huuuuh. Second. You can’t browse or check out the site without registering and Google can’t index it which is totally lame…

[...] Steve Gillmor no longer uses Google Reader, he gets all the information he wants from Twitter, so he declares RSS dead. He says the race for real-time is already won.   I agree – but real-time is not everything.  There is still room for thoughtful analysis, where thoroughness is more important than timeliness.   [...]

Rest in Peace, RSS? I Don’t Think So….

TechcrunchIT has a piece on RSS. It suggested that with Twitter’s popularity, RSS is no longer needed.

I don’t think so. 8)

Here’s some reasons RSS is still (very much) relevant:
- A tweet i……

I think this is way off base. I find that if I don’t log into Twitter regularly, I miss a lot of content. There’s also a lot of garbage on Twitter…people retweeting, seeing @ responses to people that I don’t know and I’m not part of the conversation. Unless I’m glued to Twitter 24/7, I don’t see how Twitter is a worthy replacement of RSS.

I would never, ever use Twitter to keep track of blogs and news the way I use Google Reader. It doesn’t work the same way. Twitter doesn’t even offer archives.

I also think that above all, Twitter is a trend. Microblogging probably isn’t going away, but Twitter itself will ultimately be passe. With RSS, you don’t have to rely on a specific website or service to get your info. You can retrieve it how you wish.

First I thought it was a joke. Then I realized that you were just stating you personal preference. No matter how much people laugh at you through out the day today, I want you to know that its OK. Many like me don’t quiet get twitter either.

http://www.ishatmypants.com

If it wasn’t for RSS, I wouldn’t be reading what you had to say at TechCrunch.

WTF He used a picture of the beatles? The fookin beatles mate? TC is officially stoopid.

Make the sweeping claim…get more traffic…

NO way twitter is RSS reader…do you know how much junk you have to put up with for twitter..I think twitter is great for celebrities, so people really follow it but when you combine that with your RSS feed people post up too much junk..people who really follow twitter have way more time on their hands ..JUST way more for any kind of productivity..unless u r working from Techcrunch..

I couldn’t agree more. It is ridiculous to compare RSS and Twitter. I am dumbfounded that this article was written and even more surprised that it was published.

I, like many have to disagree, RSS is great for blogs and publications, I read full articles on outlook side by side with incoming emails. Twitter, friend feed facbook, etc are good for other purposes. Ill stick to RSS for blogs and articles complete with pictures and formating, not just tinyurls.

So RSS via Google Reader Neh; RSS via FriendFeed Yeh? Just signed up for Google Reader a couple months ago and like the setup, but for some reason FriendFeed seems more convenient.

Yes it will… “Show – Expanded/List”

I agree with the previous people who have said it’s rediculous to compare RSS to twitter. They have completely different purposes.

Twitter may be very popular at the moment, but it lacks essential things that people following websites need, such as catergorisation or folders. Twitter is a good way to get some internet user types’ attention, but for a lot it wouldn’t cut it. Lots of people don’t use social networking but still want to follow websites’ updates.

If I were to use twitter to follow site updates, I would most likely need a different account to seperate it from normal status updates. I’ve found with twitter is that I miss/ignore many updates if they are not within the last 20 or so I’ve received, and I’m certainly not going to check individuals for updates if they’re just saying their site is updated. I may as well just go to the site directly and check.

I have been using the internet since 2000, and I’m on it a lot, I would class myself as an advanced user, and yet I’ve only recently started using RSS feeds “properly”, with google reader. Before I would only put 1 or 2 on my iGoogle homepage. I think that RSS is undervalued and if more sites would just promote their RSS feeds, or even start using RSS, more people would know what it is and use it.

Interesting (read hilarious) – I’m sure RSS is dead, just like all that Attention data of mine that has been aggregated.

Those 140 char tweet sure are enlightening, much more than RSS, right?

start the trend by eliminating RSS feeds on techcrunch. If that doesn’t sound like a good idea then your article isn’t a good idea either.

i still love RSS – especially when sites include fulltext and graphics in their feeds. long live RSS!

Surprised 350 comments in, that nobody has found Mr. Gillmor’s old articles and Gillmor Gangs where he said that RSS was everything and a bag of chips.

How about this instead?

Twitter is the stupidest app out there right now. I count myself among the vast throngs of people who created a Twitter account and then promptly stopped using it. RSS, on the other hand, is immensely useful and I have no plans to stop using it.

If the Twitter guys are smart, they’ll sell it now while the fad is at its peak.

When will techcrunch die like CNET or some other I used to be somebody site?

Pages and pages of twitter & idiotic articles such as this. Please die a swift death.

I do feel validated for not visiting this site in 2 weeks as no real non-twitter content is here

How can you rely on a cloud platform that displays a failwhale 20% of the time to syndicate content when you can just syndicate it much easier on your own?

I couldn’t agree more. I haven’t used bloglines (etc) for reading for at least two years. I get ondemand stuff through google search, and let the rest find me. If it is important or fun enough it will always bubble to the surface.

I especially enjoy activating realtime searches in Twhirl when I’m in need of a fix.

I have even set up a few Twitter accounts that spew out a few chosen aggregated rss feeds to fill a few gaps where the original content creators are too slow to get on Twitter.

Are you talking about web sites, activities, or delivery formats?

I suspect you’re either trying to say that you like one web site (Twitter) better than another (Google Reader), or that you like one activity (microblogging) better than another (full text blogging).

LOL! Better yet, how about Omegle.com should supersede RSS? //end sarcasm

I don’t have time to read all the comments, and I am sure someone already mentioned this:

RSS is just data. That’s the beauty of it. It is just a stream of data that can be used for any application. You could feed that data into Twitter if you wanted. Or you could setup a 1940s style ticker tape.

Saying that Twitter will replace RSS just shows a fundamental lack of understanding. This is like saying, “Cars are awesome! But gasoline is the worst!”

Get a clue.

Fail.
You’re just saying you like Twitter as an RSS reader (over Google reader). It’s not RSS that you’re abandoning, but Google Reader.

When you start liking something besides Twitter as an aggregator, you’ll probably find this useful:
http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15361

Totally stupid, Gillmor. You’ve made me want to take TechCrunch off my RSS reader… Crappy post.

Entertaining article and comments!!
I agree with what most commenters have generally said – RSS and Twitter/FriendFeed/etc. both serve separate, valid purposes.
Personally, I use both…
I use RSS for news (Yahoo, CNN, Delicious, Digg, Mashable, etc.) – a certain quantity of this I might get via Twitter, but I would miss a lot if I relied solely on that. Plus, I like my news undiluted by the extraneous noise that Twitter can be prone to.
I use Twitter (via TweetDeck) for interesting articles and blogs that I might, otherwise, miss out on and certainly wouldn’t find out about from the mainstream news channels.
I would guess that there are still more people using RSS than Twitter and its ilk, and a service is not likely to “die” while there is still widespread consumer demand for it.
In fact, if anything, I think it is possible that Twitter might someday become a ghost town, haunted by the souls that use it solely (pun intended) as an online diary in the naive belief that the online community is interested in the minutae of their existence.
I have read other articles suggesting that, when an online community becomes flooded and the river of information becomes diluted, the “leaders” move to a new community and are slowly but surely followed.

@Gillmor, in my view your post replaces the debate on Collaborative Filtering vs Standard Push.

Great post: I blogued on it, it’s in french…
http://www.longboard-montreal.com/2009/05/la-fin-des-feed-rss.html

All points made in this piece were frankly, mute. I for one do not understand the whole twitter thing. It seems like a far simpler version of facebook. I have twitter yes, but I never use it. RSS provides me with updates, news, and information from sources I like. With the use of such readers as Snackr, catching up on the news or even find articles such as this one (found it on an RSS) is a snap. I can preview the article and gather information far more efficiently.

I found this article in my RSS feed. I would not have found it otherwise. I have accounts on twitter, delicious, and facebook; but nobody in by networks have shared this article on their wall/stream, and neither will I.

I’ve written a dissenting opinion of the “death of RSS” on my blog. I hope you will read it and offer some feedback. I welcome all comments.

http://www.techyuppie.com/2009/05/rss-is-dead-not-hardly/

this dude is def twisting some left-hand smokes… he’ll probably also tell you netflix has already destroyed blockbuster… and no one uses blockbuster anymore… sure netflix is cool and is def an upgrade of BB… but it has not come close to closing BB’s doors… will it? sure… eventually the BB business model will become a thing of the past… but for now i still see plenty of cars in front of blockbuster everytime i drive by…. and the same holds true for RSS… there are plenty of people who use it today and will for a long time to come… so this dude needs to take a deep breath and relax and allow twitter to evolve naturally and stay away from hyping the hype at warp speed… “i’m given her all i can captain and there isn’t no more!” ease up scotty… before you blow the hype engine!

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This was an interesting perspective when Techstar’s David Cohen wrote about it last week.

http://www.coloradostartups.com/

Well I always liked the idea of RSS in that it brought me to the content of websites, but I hated that it turned it into all white screen, black text. I missed seeing the design of the websites. So I have a whole lot of rss feeds nicely categorised but completely uninspiring to me.

Twitter is just a modern form of irc, and you will miss most of it unless you read it all day. Its not like well thought out (sometimes) web content. And it seems like when you add a couple of heavy twitters you just get lost in sea of conversations that arent directed at you. Am I just missing the twitter bandwagon?

Who exactly are you and why do we care about your opinion? So your habits have changed – that’s nice. RSS is still an immensely powerful tool, and you’re only looking at it from a very limited perspective.

Mr. Arrington, would you mind exercising a bit of editorial control here?

Absolutely right. The noise is the right thing to point out in twitter which is the main annoyance. RSS is much more clean and affective. You don’t have to consume news like a dog, all the time with your tongue out.
RSS readers have done wonders to news and the way news are delivered. You can read the whole article, watch a video and number of photos inside the RSS reader.

Well there is pointless to dish out hundreds of advantages to this type or article where there is no scope of comparison left. Good luck with twitter.

If you want a cleaner way to work with rss, try planetaki (http://www.planetaki.com)

Twitter is still 99% geek.

[...] Right along side of Robert we have see people like Steve Gillmor grasp Twitter with open arms as being the end all be all of the Web. For them this is the new information nirvana and anything that came before it is old and dead. At least that is the pile that he is trying to spread over at TechCrunchIT with a post titled Rest in Peace, RSS. [...]

I feel I must intervene with a powerful quote on RSS being replaced. Too much anger here. This will all make us feel better.
“Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.”

- YODA

Badly written article.

[...] Gillmor says that RSS is dead.   As a member of the RSS Advisory Board, I feel compelled to inform Mr. Gillmor that his [...]

worst post ever! if something like this is posted again I’m pretty sure it will affect TC image. @Gilmor: RSS for ultra-dummies will be a good idea.

I basically completely disagree with everything that was said and I don’t think Twitter is even close to a source of news.

Hahaha. Steve Gillmor, I hope you use a synonym when you write you stupid articles, cause this was probably the most stumpiest article published on internet EVER! HAHAAHA! Do you even know what RSS is? It doesn’t sound like that! RSS is an aggregation protocol used by ALL the sites you are mentioning…

This site would probably benefit if it was renamed to Lamers Church IT instead, cause obviously its only idiots that writing articles on this pathetic site.

When I read articles like this I’m starting to wonder if freedom of speech really is something positive. I’m sorry to say this man, but you are retarded, and it is sad that you have a found a channel to express your stupidity in front of so may people. If you don’t have a clue what you are talking about you shall probably thing before you open your moth next time…

I do not agree with you. I’m mad about news and then finally they come to me.

I’m connected to Google Reader for hours every day!

I dunno. Maybe you could write one? I’m not proficient enough to write scripts or I guess I’d do it for you. Check userscripts.org; if not, make friends with someone who writes GM scripts who doesn’t like Steve’s posts, either.

The most amazing thing about this tripe is that it has garnered 385 comments as of this writing – and it’s not even readable. If it was, the comment counts would surely climb to record highs for a TC IT post (over 1,000).

Maybe Steve’s style (which lands somewhere between horrible and none at all) is the one to use to attract a huge amount of visitors, after all.

Or maybe it’s that for some reason this got posted on TechMeme – which is how I found it.

The Web itself is fast becoming this very tight, cliquish little circle jerk; no one else, even if they were 300 times as talented as Steve-o, could get this post (even if it was written with much more style) on TC IT unless they were first friends with Mike, Jason, et al. That’s the shame of it.

TechMeme these days (I’ve been watching it since the day the site went live) is more like “We all know each other Meme”, and the quality of writing that gets linked to definitely suffers as result….why worry about your writing “style” when you *know* that thanks to your web presence and sooper-special friends everyone on Earth will read what you wrote (and little of what anyone else wrote on the same subject)?

*fumes*

I found this post to be so lacking in research and any form of due diligence that I just had to post. I hope this is not the content that Techcrunch is hoping to retain its future reader base on.

I guess, if you don’t actually understand RSS, then you might think that. People have been calling for RSS’s death for many years. They were all wrong. Join the club.

I have to admit… a lot of the news I get off twitter is from RSS feeds. HUZZAH!

@hhotelconsult

This article address’s just one point of view. Many people do not use twitter and it takes a certain mindset (closed) to accept that professional news comes best via twitter.

The web is consolidating, see http://www.ghq.com. The main use of RSS enables others to professionally aggregate the news for sophisticated users.

Is this some kind of joke. 140 characters is the same as a blog post. Rss is huge the amount of time it would take me to follow twitter links would be stupid. Not to mention how much you depend on post tiltles..

Dylan also said he ain’t goin’ around Maggie’s farm no more.

So?

Who cares about Twitter either?

HA HA HA BUUURRRRP!

Shirley, you jest!

The only times I’ve ever pulled a feed were when I saw on was available from my You Tube page.

What did I see?

A summary of my clips.

Twitter can hang. 1000 words isn’t enough fo me sometimes even if ONE SENTENCE suffices most of the time.

Well, you are very lucky. Some people turn to drugs to get that expansion. We can still explain this to Paul and Ringo, thank goodness!

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. And art itself may be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect. It is an attempt to find in its forms, in its colours, in its light, in its shadows, in the aspects of matter and in the facts of life what of each is fundamental, what is enduring and essential—their one illuminating and convincing quality—the very truth of their existence. The artist, then, like the thinker or the scientist, seeks the truth and makes his appeal. Impressed by the aspect of the world the thinker plunges into ideas, the scientist into facts—whence, presently, emerging they make their appeal to those qualities of our being that fit us best for the hazardous enterprise of living. They speak authoritatively to our common-sense, to our intelligence, to our desire of peace or to our desire of unrest; not seldom to our prejudices, sometimes to our fears, often to our egoism—but always to our credulity. And their words are heard with reverence, for their concern is with weighty matters: with the cultivation of our minds and the proper care of our bodies, with the attainment of our ambitions, with the perfection of the means and the glorification of our precious aims.

It is otherwise with the artist.

Confronted by the same enigmatical spectacle the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms of his appeal. His appeal is made to our less obvious capacities: to that part of our nature which, because of the warlike conditions of existence, is necessarily kept out of sight within the more resisting and hard qualities—like the vulnerable body within a steel armour. His appeal is less loud, more profound, less distinct, more stirring—and sooner forgotten. Yet its effect endures forever. The changing wisdom of successive generations discards ideas, questions facts, demolishes theories. But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition—and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation—and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity—the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

It is only some such train of thought, or rather of feeling, that can in a measure explain the aim of the attempt, made in the tale which follows, to present an unrestful episode in the obscure lives of a few individuals out of all the disregarded multitude of the bewildered, the simple and the voiceless. For, if any part of truth dwells in the belief confessed above, it becomes evident that there is not a place of splendour or a dark corner of the earth that does not deserve, if only a passing glance of wonder and pity. The motive then, may be held to justify the matter of the work; but this preface, which is simply an avowal of endeavour, cannot end here—for the avowal is not yet complete. Fiction—if it at all aspires to be art—appeals to temperament. And in truth it must be, like painting, like music, like all art, the appeal of one temperament to all the other innumerable temperaments whose subtle and resistless power endows passing events with their true meaning, and creates the moral, the emotional atmosphere of the place and time. Such an appeal to be effective must be an impression conveyed through the senses; and, in fact, it cannot be made in any other way, because temperament, whether individual or collective, is not amenable to persuasion. All art,’ therefore, appeals primarily to the senses, and the artistic aim when expressing itself in written words must also make its appeal through the senses, if its highest desire is to reach the secret spring of responsive emotions. It must strenuously aspire to the plasticity of sculpture, to the colour of painting, and to the magic suggestiveness of music—which is the art of arts. And it is only through complete, unswerving devotion to the perfect blending of form and substance; it is only through an unremitting never-discouraged care for the shape and ring of sentences that an approach can be made to plasticity, to colour, and that the light of magic suggestiveness may be brought to play for an evanescent instant over the commonplace surface of words: of the old, old words, worn thin, defaced by ages of careless usage.

The sincere endeavour to accomplish that creative task, to go as far on that road as his strength will carry him, to go undeterred by faltering, weariness or reproach, is the only valid justification for the worker in prose. And if his conscience is clear, his answer to those who in the fulness of a wisdom which looks for immediate profit, demand specifically to be edified, consoled, amused; who demand to be promptly improved, or encouraged, or frightened, or shocked, or charmed, must run thus:—My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm—all you demand—and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask. To snatch in a moment of courage, from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life, is only the beginning of the task. The task approached in tenderness and faith is to hold up unquestioningly, without choice and without fear, the rescued fragment before all eyes in the light of a sincere mood. It is to show its vibration, its colour, its form; and through its movement, its form, and its colour, reveal the substance of its truth—disclose its inspiring secret: the stress and passion within the core of each convincing moment. In a single-minded attempt of that kind, if one be deserving and fortunate, one may perchance attain to such clearness of sincerity that at last the presented vision of regret or pity, of terror or mirth, shall awaken in the hearts of the beholders that feeling of unavoidable solidarity; of the solidarity in mysterious origin, in toil, in joy, in hope, in uncertain fate, which binds men to each other and all mankind to the visible world. It is evident that he who, rightly or wrongly, holds by the convictions expressed above cannot be faithful to any one of the temporary formulas of his craft. The enduring part of them—the truth which each only imperfectly veils—should abide with him as the most precious of his possessions, but they all: Realism, Romanticism, Naturalism, even the unofficial senti-mentalism (which like the poor, is exceedingly difficult to get rid of,) all these gods must, after a short period of fellowship, abandon him—even on the very threshold of the temple—to the stammerings of his conscience and to the outspoken consciousness of the difficulties of his work. In that uneasy solitude the supreme cry of Art for Art itself, loses the exciting ring of its apparent immorality. It sounds far off. It has ceased’ to be a cry, and is heard only as a whisper, often incomprehensible, but at times and faintly encouraging.

Sometimes, stretched at ease in the shade of a roadside tree, we watch the motions of a labourer in a distant field, and after a time, begin to wonder languidly as to what the fellow may be at. We watch the movements of his body, the waving of his arms, we see him bend down, stand up, hesitate, begin again. It may add to the charm of an idle hour to be told the purpose of his exertions. If we know he is trying to lift a stone, to dig a ditch, to uproot a stump, we look with a more real interest at his efforts; we are disposed to condone the jar of his agitation upon the restfulness of the landscape; and even, if in a brotherly frame of mind, we may bring ourselves to forgive his failure. We understood his object, and, after all, the fellow has tried, and perhaps he had not the strength—and perhaps he had not the knowledge. We forgive, go on our way—and forget.

And so it is with the workman of art. Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off. And thus, doubtful of strength to travel so far, we talk a little about the aim—the aim of art, which, like life itself, is inspiring, difficult—obscured by mists—It is not in the clear logic of a triumphant conclusion; it is not in the unveiling of one of those heartless secrets which are called the Laws of Nature. It is not less great, but only more difficult.

To arrest, for the space of a breath, the hands busy about the work of the earth, and compel men entranced by the sight of distant goals to glance for a moment at the surrounding vision of form and colour, of sunshine and shadows; to make them pause for a look, for a sigh, for a smile—such is the aim, difficult and evanescent, and reserved only for a very few to achieve. But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished—behold!—all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile—and the return to an eternal rest.

Carry on, dead man!

or something like that.

Paul was wearing thong slippers in that picture but he took them off prior to the crossing in the album cover picture. The bare feet were interpreted by some folks with bad, bad microdots as being related to a Sicilian thing about being dead.

Paul is DEAD they said, so he played on instead.

Why does his mouth elicit sentiments of beauty when you elaborate and evaluate?

Do these feelings elicit joy?

Enquiring minds wanna blog…

I HATE tabs…they are the biggest pain in the ass in IE. I don’t want to click and go through menus to find my stinking page again and they REALLY don’t help if you want to use multiple eBay pages to enter a series of bids rapidly, for example.

“Being dead”, kids. Look it up. Paul was supposed to be dead becuase he was barefoot. Ask your momma.

Ain’t that somethin’!

Oh!

I like Coke. You will too. Enjoy Coke today, it’s everywhere.

Looks like I’m a freaking tycoon!

I didn’t subscribe, I favorited and check the new stuff either from linking from email or from links on other blogs.

DUH! Ye of badly distributed faith.

Isn’t that how VIRUSES got started?

Hey, Professor, ping my PDP!

I can see my eyes in the mirror though.

It was on the side of TechCrunch or one of it’s army of blogging Fembots. Call me old fashioned but my computer audio is a Pioneer boombox.

PAUL IS DEAD! YOU WONDERED TOO?

You look about old enough to at least know Deep Purple and Uriah Heep anyway,,,

What in god’s name were you doing with your hand?

NO, DON’T ANSWER…you look 13.

a- ONE

a- TWO

a- THREE…

THREE

Really messes up your bowels too.

Pancakes don’t make good weapons either.

[...] “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore.”, says Steve Gillmor in his Techcrunch post titled “Rest in Peace, RSS“. [...]

If the Beach Boys said it, it’s gospel.

Can you do a Staples Singers tune next time though?

Ha! Shirley IS serious.

Still a nice lookin’ dog.

140 characters is bad, but holy Holly, Batman! I got a headache looking at in in my email.

Shoot the gaffer!

[...] Gilmour says RSS is dead. That’s a prediction more than a thousand times proven false. What Steve doesn’t [...]

[...] door Steve Gillmor’s essay op TechCrunchIT (want het is meer dan zo maar een blog [...]

practice what you preach. Remove all the RSS feeds here then and shoot yourself in the foot :p

Pretty much all of this post us unreadable fluff but the important part and yes Steve I agree..

“It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore”

You make a good point. All of the feeds I subscribe to via my home page have twitter feeds. Ive therefore installed Tweety and subscribed to the twitter feeds of the the content im interested in. I have no intention to post on Twitter but to use it as a method of obtaining the news and information that im interested in is an interesting concept.
Thanks for the idea.

You’re welcome

Yes but using twitter as a a way to acquire information is the same manner as RSS makes sense. When you view an RSS feed in your homepage or reader typically you see a summary of the article followed by a link to the page containing the content. The 140 characters contains the summary and a shorted URL take you to the article.

oh an I might add that im not necessary agreeing that Twitter will replace RSS.
RSS is prevalent in just about all blogs and aggregators as you stated in your post. I view it as complementary rather than as a replacement.

I think Twitter is another way to obtain and digest information on the web. I don’t think the ‘real time’ nature of Twitter makes any difference to me based on the type of content im interested in (news, blogs etc) but the way the information is presented in the various client based Twitter apps is appealing to me.

Im also interested in the concept of the discovery of new content via the followers of twitter users who are following the same content providers as myself.

Maybe if sites were to automatically publish blog entries and articles ‘automatically’ into twitter feeds in the same way that articles are ‘automatically’ included in RSS feeds then RSS may have some competition but today articles have to be ‘manually’ tweeted (god I hate that word) which means I may not be exposed to all of the content on my favorite sites, I am at the merci of the ‘tweeter’.

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[...] Steve Gillmor 写了一篇文章，风趣的调侃了RSS阅读器之死，取而代之的是什么？没错，又是Twitter——基于话题而非网站feed的阅读器！其实我现在每天接受新资讯基本上都是用tweetdeck，与Google reader渐行渐远！ [...]

[...] Steve Gilmor begräbt RSS: It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it’s not worth swimming in if you get my drift. [...]

Well, Twitter doesn’t have enough tools around it for organizing and filter as RSS has, specially on phone based clients. So, I find it very hard to follow all links on my phone, but still find my Google Reader feed very easy to read.

I don’t think you took everything into consideration before denouncing RSS. Has TechCrunch come to this?

[...] up by another TechCrunch blogger Steve Gilmour blogging on the demise of RSS :  “Rest-in-peace-RSS“.  I think he’s over egging the cake [...]

If you don’t use your RSS reader anymore perhaps the problem is what you’re subscribed to.

RSS is here to stay. Any standardized datasource will persist for a long time. RSS is one of those.

[...] Twitter acquirers yesterday. Today is the “RSS is dead again” problem. It started with Steve Gillmor proclaiming RSS is replaced with Twitter: It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore. [...]

[...] Rest in Peace, RSS — 6:26am via Google [...]

[...] que tiene varios días circulando por la web, ésta surge a raíz de una anotación en TechCrunch, Rest in peace RSS publicada por Steve Gillmor, en ella ejemplifica su caso en el cómo ha dejado de utilizar su [...]

jajaja funny but its the true.

I would never replace my meaningful RSS updates that often contains articles, videos and other interactive material with short, vague and often meaningless Twitter or Faceboook updates.

[...] latest victim of the X is Dead meme is RSS. Steve Glimor from TechCrunch IT writes that RSS is being replaced by services like Twitter, Facebook and Friendfeed. His position is [...]

[...] Does Twitter make RSS Feeders Obsolete? Not yet at least. Published May 7, 2009 Uncategorized 0 Comments Tags: twitter In a blog post today Jemima Kiss of The Guardian, asks whether Twitter signals the end of RSS Feeders, a position held by Steve Gillmor of TechCrunchIT. [...]

I could not, even for a day, live without RSS. Like all things on the web, I’m sure it will be replaced one day… but with Twitter?? I don’t think so and I *love* Twitter.

What a useless “article”.

Is cluelesness a virtue or is this just a bad attempt at more pageviews?

I follow twitter with my RSS application, but I can find no use for a single thing anyone has twittered. It’s no eonder 60% of the new twitter people never return after a month.

Does this mean we should delete Tech Crunch RSS from our readers?

I use iGoogle to sort all my RSS feeds. Is it possible to sort Twitter by categories or tags? Tweetdeck’s not quite there yet.

It’s ludicrous to throw the baby (RSS Readers) with the bath water (RSS). If RSS readers have failed us, it doesn’t mean RSS is bad.
The part of the logic I don’t understand is that- those same new social channels that you’re enamored by (Friendfeed, Twitter, Facebook, people-based) also have RSS-out.
What we need is a better way to configure what we want to read daily that cuts across people and subject filters and social & traditional media sources.
We’re just coming out of stealth at Eqentia- providing a personalized semantic aggregator, and would love to configure one for you where every link brought-in will be relevant.

Sorry, I meant Baby= RSS, Bath water=RSS Reader. Too bad we can’t edit Comments here, like with Disqus.

I thought this was a joke. Twitter is apples, and RSS is oranges.

Everyone’s shutting down their RSS because of this silly little blog posting. Even techcurchit.com is shutting down their RSS. Thank goodness that’s over. Yep, that RSS was just too pesky to be useful.

(I hope this posting is no more believable than Gilmore’s.)

[...] in Online, RSS by CThilk on May 7, 2009 Steve Gillmor thinks because he’s stopped using RSS it’s dead. Cause that makes [...]

I don’t think the behavior of the author is representative of the behavior of most people at this point in time and therefore it suggestion that RSS is dead is incorrect. It is so woefully off-beat that I, and apparently others too, have to wonder as to its motivation (assuming that there was some aforethought).

has to be flame bait. wtf?

[...] the craziest thing ever in some time (well…  not that long) , a story via Techcrunch about Rest in Peace, RSS. Steve Gillmor tells us more: It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just [...]

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I just published a response to this focusing on the use of RSS in the enterprise:

http://www.headshift.com/blog/2009/05/going-with-the-flow-whither-en.php

I too have seen a drop-off in RSS use compared to link sharing in Twitter, but I don’t think that is the whole stoey

Also agreeing with Kyle. This is one of the stupidest articles on Techcrunch that I have seen.

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Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Twitter’s great to learn the headlines of what Rafe over at Webware’s writing about or doing…but if Twitter is your only news source then you’re only paying attention to the sound bites. Real news analysis and reporting requires delving more deeply into articles. Yes, tweets can link to full articles, but you’re talking about a level of indirection that requires clicking over to something. I read Google Reader with the articles inline (not just the titles). Titles can be misleading, sensational and just plain useless sometimes.

Twitter is also more about following what my friends are doing. Yes they’re a good source of information, but I turn more regularly to Webware, TechCrunch and other blogs for the real analysis and coverage. Twitter is great but please…don’t make it the golden hammer.

There’s definitely still a place for RSS at the table.

[...] n’hésitent pas non plus à prédire la fin des blogs ou du RSS. Twitter est encore plus instantané et c’est la un autre sujet de discussion qui prend [...]

[...] have higher profile than me, so when Steve over at TechCrunch (they don’t know me!) says to ditch RSS, switch to twitter, I start figuring out [...]

I think Steve is just a douche bag… completely disagree with this stupid article!

[...] Gillmor’s “Rest in Peace RSS” post on Techcrunch (note he also wrote about “The Death of Podcasting” in July [...]

[...] Rest in Peace, RSS "Rest in Peace, RSS" – Steve Gillmor [TechCrunchIT] http://is.gd/x1vR [from http://twitter.com/kenmat/statuses/1721251913 (tags: tweecious GoogleReader RSS Facebook Google Twitter Aggregator FriendFeed YouTube) [...]

[...] Reader in preparation of writing a post on a completely unrelated subject I happened across this craptastic piece of editorial bologna by Steve Gillmor at TechCrunchIT on the ostensible death of RS…. In his infinite wisdom Gillmor claims to have completely given up on his RSS reader in favor of [...]

[...] Reader in preparation of writing a post on a completely unrelated subject I happened across this craptastic piece of editorial bologna by Steve Gillmor at TechCrunchIT on the ostensible death of RS…. In his infinite wisdom Gillmor claims to have completely given up on his RSS reader in favor of [...]

[...] week, I read this horrible article on how Twitter can be a substitute for RSS. Right, good luck with that. If you’re keeping up [...]

[...] There’s the respectable opinion that “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter” (link here). [...]

[...] che qualcuno – segnala TechCrunch – arriva a  predire la fine dei blogs o degli RSS (Twitter-Google Reader,  365 a [...]

Is it April Fools again?

[...] che qualcuno – segnala TechCrunch – arriva a  predire la fine dei blogs o degli RSS (Twitter-Google Reader,  365 a [...]

[...] Rest in peace RSS [...]

[...] original publicado no TechCrunch IT Rest in Peace, RSS – Steve Gillmor – 5 de maio 2009 http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-peace-rss/ Be the first to start a conversation Clique aqui para cancelar a resposta. Leave a [...]

[...] גילמור “קבר” השבוע את ה-RSS לאחר שטוויטר הרג אותו, לטענתו. גילמור (כדאי [...]

[...] self, casually subsumed as the transport for 140+ content into the social stream. TechCrunch – Rest in Peace, RSS [...]

Twitter and RSS are so different is seems silly to compare them. RSS provides title, content a link, and maybe a picture, describing some article you might want to read. RSS sits in your reader until you come to read it.

Tweets just a title and a link, and disappears almost as quickly as you read them.

Twitter can hardly replace RSS as a way to read news.

[...] Many articles have been written about how to more efficiently use RSS so as not to drown in the flow of information. My problem can’t be solved by better organization (Feedly is very nice, but it doesn’t disguise the fact that there’s a shit ton of info flowing in each day) or cutting out feeds I don’t read (I read them all, that’s why I’ve subscribed to them). Deleting all of my feeds isn’t an option either. So last week I tried a hybrid approach I’ve adapted from David Gillmor. [...]

[...] Tickets are usually $400 each; but we are giving ten free tickets away to readers who give us the best answer to this question: Does Google have a real-time strategy and if so, how is it going to compete against Twitter and Facebook in the real-time wars given the recent death of RSS? [...]

[...] Tickets are usually $400 each; but we are giving ten free tickets away to readers who give us the best answer to this question: Does Google have a real-time strategy and if so, how is it going to compete against Twitter and Facebook in the real-time wars given the recent death of RSS? [...]

[...] Tickets are commonly $400 each; but we are gift decade liberated tickets absent to readers who provide us the prizewinning respond to this question: Does Google hit a real-time strategy and if so, how is it feat to contend against Twitter and Facebook in the real-time wars presented the past death of RSS? [...]

I love it when people subscribe to a bunch of stuff and then complain about how much noise there is.

“Look at this! I’m subscribed to 1000 RSS feeds and I’m following 30,000 people on Twitter and the noise is deafening!”

Obviously the problem is RSS and not you.

[...] Does Google have a real-time strategy and if so, how is it going to compete against Twitter and Facebook in the real-time wars given the recent death of RSS? [...]

[...] Tickets are usually $400 each; but we are giving ten free tickets away to readers who give us the best answer to this question: Does Google have a real-time strategy and if so, how is it going to compete against Twitter and Facebook in the real-time wars given the recent death of RSS? [...]

[...] Tickets are usually $400 each; but we are giving ten free tickets away to readers who give us the best answer to this question: Does Google have a real-time strategy and if so, how is it going to compete against Twitter and Facebook in the real-time wars given the recent death of RSS? [...]

RSS is much cleaner than Twitter. I am a huge fan of google reader. Unlike Twitter, I get to organized my feeds. I read various blogs, get updates on real estate, VC/PE and stock markets, receive news fron my universities and employer all at a single place.

The neat format allows me to easily scroll to my article of interest. Google Reader’s suggestions of other articles I might be interested in are also very valid and relevant. I like that I can instantly share or email stuff with others.

I’m a recent Twitter adopter as well – but honest to God, I’m still trying to understand the hype surrounding it. I realize the applications built on top of twitter have tremendous applicability. However, thats no competition to RSS.

Add to that, 160 characters or less makes it difficult to understand. Also, I’ve noticed that the combination of AWS and low bandwidth makes Twitter very very slow.

Steve Gillmor, come on! What is more interesting the Guy Kawasaki blog or his twitter? Twitter is mainly a spamming platform. Google Reader still let me see in a place interesting articles of things I am interested about and search among them. I use Twitter but I find it too much time consuming and ineffective to get ONLY the information that I need to be updated with. Today the problem is not to get information. The problem is not being overwhelmed by it. At the moment RSS is not the perfect answer. I still have ton of posts that I haven’t the time to go through but it is a better answer than Twitter. The real solution would be a combination of the two and maybe with other stuff but even if someone is trying to do something, we are not there yet.

[...] as a means of aggregating, personalising and sharing news items. Blogs such as TechCrunch have been talking up the displacement of services like Google Reader with more real-time efforts such as [...]

Poetic rubbish wrapped with a mesmerizing cadence a la a bad William Gibson wet-dream plot line.

RSS (Rich Site Summary) and its replacement XML (eXtensible Markup Language) are standards and technologies for the wrapping and transport of software parseable texts.

For example:

use XML::RSS;
my $rss = new XML::RSS;
$rss->channel(
title => ‘Perl News’,
‘link’ => ‘http://www.news.perl.org/',
description => ‘News for the Perl Community’,
);
$rss->save(“$dir/$channel.rss”);

An actual program to parse and save an RSS or XML “feed.” No cotton candy. No BS.

-=English Verse=-

[...] no Twitter do “wanna-be-rich-with-semantic-web-boy” Nova Spivack, vi que ele discordava desse artigo do TechCrunch, que diz simplesmente que o RSS morreu com ferramentas como o Twitter, que fazem [...]

RSS adds value to my life. Twitter is a timewaster. Who is interested in people’s random thoughts anyway?

To say that RSS is dead is a bit stupid. But RSS isn’t exactly perfect either.

My guess is RSS will evolve. Today, the biggest problem with RSS is that it is too difficult to understand for noobs.

And Twitter’s problem. It’s hard to understand what value twitter really adds.

This article really sucks. The author has no clue what he is writing. The content sucks and so does the writing.
- Not on techcrunch man

[...] yayılıyor şu günlerde. TechCrunchIT‘de konuyla ilgili olarak Steve Gillmor da bir yazı yazmış. Bunun üzerine biraz düşünmek lazım gibi geldi ve fikirlerimi paylaşmak [...]

I have been using twitter, rss platforms, google reader in combination for quite some time…..

twitter is ony as great as the sourcers..the tweeters….I have been building twitter accounts solely to utilize the rss feeds that read the twitter accounts this one follows….so I have obamagov that follows all govt related tweeters (official, unofficial, govt watchdog groups, etc)…..and I have an account I use to track folks who tweet mma news (top secret account)….

I have one twittersources account I use to seed my links, coded according to the type of data it is….#wnt= worldnewstweets, etc…..then I use twitter search to gather my #wnt tweets to generate ‘product’ from….

rss without twitter is too slow for a news producer, publisher, webmaster, etc……great for newsgazers tho

twitter without rss is unfiltered garbage….one twitter account can never serve more than one master, a researcher, a promoter, a social gabber, and a newstweeter..

for blogsites, groups, etc that have to have multiple presences…..you need multiple accounts…including seeding accounts and ‘rss feed’ accounts…..

go to twitterfeedcentral.ning.com for a crude version of what I am talking about…a basic raw data center to efficiently disburse info (I’ve made developments since then, but nothing fully operating just yet…close though)

My short version of this comment”:
mashup, multiplatform, webmersion- the idea of a fractal approach to networking….fully expressed in the hidden powers of twitter in conjunction with multiplatform approaches to the web concept, the web network rather than the ‘website’……

paul collier
http://webmersion.net

[...]  Rest in Peace, RSS – flame bait from Steve Gillmor. It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it’s not worth swimming in if you get my drift. [...]

[...] the recent proclamation from Steve Gillmor. It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t [...]

[...] post was prompted by Steve Gillmor’s article ‘Rest in Peace, RSS‘ posted on TechCrunchIT on May 5, 2009. In the article Steve Gillmor argues that RSS service [...]

[...] TechCrunchIT declared RSS dead in favor of… Twitter? Really? How come they haven’t removed all of their RSS links and [...]

[...] is dead meinte Steve Gillmor auf Techcrunch und empfahl, wie schon Wired im letzten Jahr, den kompletten Wechsel hin zu Twitter und Konsorten. [...]

Thank you for this and wake up all! Do we want our complete communication be owned by facebook, twitter, google and microsoft? Hell no, use the tools (and others!) but don’t get brainwashed please.

Steve,

Late, late comment, but excellent piece of work.

Bill Z

[...] of RSS By Way of Twitter A recent article on TechCrunchIT by Steve Gillmor, entitled “Rest in Peace, RSS,” seems to sound the death knell for RSS. In his article, Mr. Gillmor takes RSS to task for [...]

[...] Gillmour provocou ao declarar a morte do RSS no blog TechCruch. “Twitter, e não o RSS, se tornou o sistema de alerta de conteúdo novo”, [...]

[...] Gillmour provocou ao declarar a morte do RSS no blog TechCruch. “Twitter, e não o RSS, se tornou o sistema de alerta de conteúdo novo”, [...]

i gust want to say some thing “great job”

Update your Twitter randomly according to your intrest Or, from Rss Feed Or, from your own tweet message list Or, Any combination of the above three http://feedmytwitter.com

[...] RSS dead?  Steve Gillmor has a nice eulogy for it in TechCrunchIT.  For him Twitter, Facebook and other realtime content has taken over.  [...]

[...] yayılıyor şu günlerde. TechCrunchIT‘de konuyla ilgili olarak Steve Gillmor da bir yazı yazmış. Bunun üzerine biraz düşünmek lazım gibi geldi ve fikirlerimi paylaşmak [...]

Ελληνικό Social Networking – Μέρος 2o…

Στο προηγούμενο μέρος του άρθρου αναλύσαμε τι σημαίνει ο όρος social networking και παρουσιάσαμε τα μεγαλύτερα ελληνικά social networking sites. Αυτή τη φορ……

Los RSS me aportan mucho a mis web y no creo que mueran nunca de echo van en subida

abrazos
CAMILO AZAR

[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

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[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

Whew…long list here-RSS evolves and changes like anything else, is it completely dead…naw…not yet. Whats the next best great thing to replace it, certainly Twitter has good trends but not a complete take over of RSS.

[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

[...] some have decried the death of RSS in light of social media sites Twitter and FriendFeed, I still find it important to experience [...]

[...] weekend we were told RSS feeds are dead and Semantic search engines will kill Google. Awesome technology… but is it game [...]

[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

[...] Update by Mike Boland at Search Engine Watch.  One article that Mike mentioned in his post was Rest in Peace, RSS by Steve Gillmor where is discusses how Twitter is killing the RSS feed. Very [...]

Steve Gillmor, this is verbal diarrhoea. Your position is absurd and your argument is illogical. What have you in store? ‘Email is dead, long live the Podcast!’?

[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

[...] information outlet, replacing his need for an RSS feed.  With a title as dramatic as, “Rest in Peace, RSS,” it’s no suprise at the attention this post has received.  With 500+ comments, it has [...]

Distributing Content Via RSS: Kindle Blogs, Twitterfeed, MoFuse Mobile…

Get Your Blog on Kindle Using RSS! Periodic claims that RSS is dead will continue to appear from those on the cutting edge since, hey, they don’t use it anymore but RSS remains a primary tool for distributing content via……

[...] このリアルタイムストリームの構築は、かなり前から始まっていた。その始まりはRSSだが、それは今ではものすごく強力で迅速な情報配信手段になり、定期的なニュースや思考の更新だけでなく、コンスタントなコミュニケーションやステータスアップデート、思考や写真やビデオなどを瞬時にして共有化するためにも、広く使われるようになっている。 [...]

[...] real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings but constant communication, status updates, [...]

There are compelling cases for both. Each of our own sites feeds has the option of RSS or Twitter. I actually believe the Twitter feeds to be way more widely followed. Although RSS is more pwerful, it hasn’t really caught the imagination of most web users.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

[...] der Nutzer wusste nicht einmal was RSS ist. Ist die Zeit für RSS gekommen? So meint es zumindest TechCrunch IT und Gartner kontert, dass man nicht sofort alles zu Grabe tragen [...]

“I haven’t been in Google Reader for months. Google Reader is the dominant RSS reader. I’ve done the math: Twitter 365 Google Reader 0. All my RSS feeds are in Google Reader. I don’t go there any more. Since all my feeds are in Google Reader and I don’t go there, I don’t use RSS anymore.”

Has using Twitter made you into a blathering idiot or something? Seriously, did you not read that paragraph at all and wonder if it made any sense? Would your 4th grade English teacher give you bad marks for this?

Come on…

Simply stunningly headlongness detected… Since RSS is a much more specific tool (to specifically allow user to read webpages recent updates), and twitter is far more dynamic and multi-use, you cant just eliminate RSS and stay on twitter. If it worked for you, fine. But the feeds reading thing offers a much more selective and time saving form of information access. Just dont run your mouth generalizing for everyone, ok?

[...] esté haciendo otras cosas. Hace un par de semanas escribieron una entrada escandalosa llamada “RSS, descansa en paz”. En esta entrada, Steve Gillmor prácticamente dijo que Twitter es el nuevo [...]

[...] that I’m doing something else. A couple of weeks ago they posted an outrageous entry called “Rest in Peace, RSS”. In this entry, Steve Gillmor pretty much said that Twitter is the new [...]

[...] still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] I’m still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] I’m still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] これはたいへんスマートなアイディアだ。あまりITに詳しくない友人から「これこれのトピックではどんなフィードを購読したらいいか？」尋ねられることがよくある。これに返事をするにはいちいちオススメのサイトのリンクを収集しなければならなかった。しかし今度は何回かクリックするだけでオススメのフィードのパッケージが出来上がる。私は依然としてGoogle Readerのソーシャル化のコンセプトには納得していないし、TechCrunchITのSteve Gillmorがフィードリーダーについて、Twiiterのようなリアルタイムのニュース・ストリーミングの優位性を説いた記事にはもっともな点が多くある。しかし、役に立つ機能はそれとして評価したい―友達のバンドルを購読するというのはなにかちょっと語呂がよくないが。 [...]

[...] still not sold on Google Reader’s overall social philosophy, and I think TechCrunchIT’s Steve Gillmor has a lot of good points about the viability of a straight-up feed reader like Google Reader against something like Twitter [...]

[...] discussie naar aanleiding van de uitspraak/post “Rest in Peace, RSS” van Steve Gillmor en reactie daar op door Dave [...]

[...] is a cultural expression of the technical prediction that in the age of Twitter, Google is dead, RSS is dead, non-realtime content is [...]

[...] Gillmor of Techcrunch wished RSS „to rest in peace“. Her argued that Twitter  (and Facebook, Friendfeed, …) have [...]

[...] a comment » They say RSS is dead, and that Twitter is taking [...]

[...] schreef al hoe dit weblog terminaal dreigde te raken door Twitter, schrijft Steve Gilmor begin deze maand op Techcrunch ineens “Rest in Peace, RSS”. Ik begon net een beetje het gevoel te krijgen dat het ging lukken, RSS uitleggen aan de mensen die [...]

[...] famously argued earlier this month that RSS should “rest in peace“. Gillmor’s summary started off by saying, “It’s time to get completely off RSS [...]

[...] und unfollowe radikal Leuten, die (für mich) unrelevantes zwitschern. Ich glaube nicht, dass RSS tot ist. Es ist für mich nach wie vor das wichtigste Medium um mir Spezialinformationen (nerdiges, [...]

[...] “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] large component of the “RSS Is Dead” idea is that services like Twitter offer a faster and more curated way to share content. But [...]

[...] large component of the “RSS Is Dead” idea is that services like Twitter offer a faster and more curated way to share content. But [...]

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[...] large component of the “RSS Is Dead” idea is that services like Twitter offer a faster and more curated way to share content. But [...]

[...] large component of the “RSS Is Dead” idea is that services like Twitter offer a faster and more curated way to share content. But [...]

[...] large component of the “RSS Is Dead” idea is that services like Twitter offer a faster and more curated way to share content. But the [...]

[...] RSSは死んだ説が出てきた最大の要因は、Twitterなどのサービスの方が早くてまとまった形でコンテンツを共有できるからだ。しかし問題は、Twitterでそれをやろうとすると、共有するのはコンテンツそのものではなくリンクになってしまうことだ。Tweetreeがこれを解決する・・・RSSを使って。 [...]

[...] large component of the “RSS Is Dead” idea is that services like Twitter offer a faster and more curated way to share content. But the [...]

[...] 关于RSS死活的话题，三四年来断断续续总有人提起，增辉说 阅读器大众化已死，近期还有一些相关帖子：RSS真的死了么？ ；阅读器大众化未死；RSS好得很，兼谈语义web ；RSS已经死去。 [...]

[...] not even sure what he’s talking about (this?), but this is too good not to post. The most brilliantly paranoid man on the Internet draws a line [...]

I agree 10000%. I fire up seesmic desktop, check my replies, my userlist and then do a live search on “tech” or “video” or “News”… Sorry Dave Winer…

No, Steve. Keep RSS. I’m with Dave on this. RSS is VITAL for being able to RSS to my Google reader the search results of people who follow-block me on Twitter, so that I can still read their posts conveniently.

[...] not even sure what he’s talking about (this?), but this is too good not to post. The most brilliantly paranoid man on the Internet draws a line [...]

[...] not even sure what he’s talking about (this?), but this is too good not to post. The most brilliantly paranoid man on the Internet draws a line [...]

And TechCrunch’s relevance continues to dwindle..

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[...] Steve Gillmor说，RSS已经安静的死去。这样的观点不是第一次看到，但是现在看来感触更深。 [...]

RSS missed the bus, it could have been doing what twitter is doing now. Like “feed” from celebrities, NASA, or social circle etc.

Maybe if it had html interface to its xml feed…

Pleeeeze, twitter isn’t going to replace RSS. Nerds and news junkies typically subscribe and skim dozens of feeds. Do we need to effectively be I.M’d every new post from them via Twitter, no.

[...] have lined up in 2009 to bury RSS. The latest eulogy comes from Steve Gillmor, who writes on TechCrunchIT that: It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut [...]

Hey Steve, I was following your post but all I was able to read in 140 characters was:

“It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of ”

Can you please tweet the rest, 140 characters at a time, until I have enough to read the entire article? Thanks, asshole!

[...] Techcrunch current – TC has an amazing 2.3M RSS subscribers base. From some reason, they hide that figure at the bottom of their homepage, maybe because they believe RSS is dead. [...]

[...] El artículo de TechCrunch explica sus razones para considerar que el RSS estaba muerto. [...]

[...] El artículo de TechCrunch explica sus razones para considerar que el RSS estaba muerto. [...]

[...] Update by Mike Boland at Search Engine Watch.  One article that Mike mentioned in his post was Rest in Peace, RSS by Steve Gillmor where is discusses how Twitter is killing the RSS feed. Very [...]

RSS also increases the browsibility of stories. So you’re more likely to read something out of your interests. Say if you just have a feed from new York times.
Scale though. Yes that is an issue. Can sort of get that from comparing how many sites are running the story. But u tend to more get that from TV, ie daily show or tv news podcast.

[...] of keeping up on what is happening in the blogosphere. This was noted recently by both Mashable and TechCrunch. (But don’t tell Dave [...]

[...] your Twitter feed is beginning to replace your RSS feed, you can probably thank Mario Menti. Back in March, 2007, he created the initial prototype of [...]

[...] your Twitter feed is beginning to replace your RSS feed, you can probably thank Mario Menti. Back in March, 2007, he created the initial prototype of [...]

[...] your Twitter feed is beginning to replace your RSS feed, you can probably thank Mario Menti. Back in March, 2007, he created the initial prototype of [...]

[...] your Twitter feed is beginning to replace your RSS feed, you can probably thank Mario Menti. Back in March, 2007, he created the initial prototype of [...]

[...] your Twitter feed is beginning to replace your RSS feed, you can probably thank Mario Menti. Back in March, 2007, he created the initial prototype of [...]

[...] your Twitter feed is beginning to replace your RSS feed, you can probably thank Mario Menti. Back in March, 2007, he created the initial prototype of [...]

[...] your Twitter feed is beginning to replace your RSS feed, you can probably thank Mario Menti. Back in March, 2007, he created the initial prototype of [...]

[...] your Twitter feed is beginning to replace your RSS feed, you can probably thank Mario Menti. Back in March, 2007, he created the initial prototype of [...]

[...] the fact that some believe that RSS is dead (well, some don’t), I still use it frequently to catch up on the day’s news at a [...]

[...] המידע המפורסם הוא מידע יבש, אינפורמטיבי ולא אישי. לכן, בהמשך למה שנאמר לפני מספר שבועות, Twitter כנראה הופכת לגרסה המשופרת של RSS, וזאת בזכות היכולת [...]

[...] goodbye RSS, and rest in peace! – twitter replaces rss(techcrunch); [...]

[...] Steve Gillmor说，RSS已经安静的死去。这样的观点不是第一次看到，但是现在看来感触更深。 [...]

[...] der weitläufig kursierender Social Media Bekenntnisse, in denen nicht selten schon der Abgesang auf RSS angestimmt wird, fast schon peinlich. Nichtsdestotrotz läuft bei mir die [...]

[...] if you listen to these people at all, you’ll find out something: you are way behind. Blogging is dead. Myspace is dead. Even Ebay is dead. Nobody is using Internet Explorer. Nobody reads books [...]

[...] from about a month ago. For me, most everything now comes to me via the FF/Twitter stream. – http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-peace-rss/ Do you still use an RSS reader or does info come to you mostly from FF/Twitter etc..? still use [...]

[...] There is a slightly bizarre article today on Online Journalism Blog advocating that newspapers should turn off their RSS feeds and instead push their stories to Twitter. Many people have noticed that Twitter has become one of the easiest ways to disseminate content on the internet, leading some to predict the death of RSS. [...]

It’s not over ’til it’s over. I use twitter way more than RSS, but like an earlier poster said, RSS is way more methodical, and once you have it set up, everything is much more immediately at your fingertips.

[...] Rest in Peace, RSS (techcrunchit.com) [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way all through the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. lengthy live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of subject matter delivery such as Twitter and other [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time [...]

[...] the crucial comparison because, as Steve Gillmor rambled, twitter is supplanting RSS. Some say RSS deserves to be replaced. That’s a far different proposition from replacing digg [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time [...]

[...] there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time [...]

I can’t believe that you prefer Twitter to RSS. Twitter is a mess. All you get is spam links and useless information. How do you get your info on Twitter? By searching? No way, you need to have a filter for all those spammy tweets and the identify witch tweet is useful. RSS is still much alive and well .

[...] fast enough, and a number of people have heavily criticizes RSS for being too slow; some say RSS is dying (or is dead). I don’t really [...]

I totally disagree.

I see you have 10643 readers using feedburner, so you’re telling them to take a hike? Fine with me.

To avoid being hit by a lorrie!

XXX is EVERYWHERE, ya freak ;-p

Where did he hide them? At this point the article resemble a prostate problem…

dribs and drabs but still going

[...] Everyone thinks these days that Twitter will kill everything – it will kill Google, it will kill RSS, now it will kill comments. [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] feeds that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: would be [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The humans who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What whether all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

Dude. You’re a fucking idiot. Just because the retarded companies you cover don’t understand how to use RSS doesn’t mean it’s not a great technology.

STFU and go twitter something.

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] page is here, but unfortunately, Tor is not providing an RSS feed. So, I guess it’s true, RSS is dead. I’m not of the reasoning behind not providing a feed, since it’s not like [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

[...] RSS feeds that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, andwho can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: would be [...]

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

Rest in Peace? RSS will never die! You people… sometimes I’m a little skeptical of your ideas…

What about the associations we have with RSS and twitter? RSS makes you think news and legitimacy, while twitter makes you think of something more shallow or superfluous. It’s different if my boss catches me on twitter vs. reading an RSS feed, and I don’t think that’s changing any time soon.

Congratz, Phatso. Dis beat will loop till the 40 runs out and they bury yo bottle.

OUT

[...] that are migrating to Twitter. The people who run Twitter definitely don’t like RSS, and who can blame them? The big concerns expressed at the meeting were, “What if all feeds went through twitter: [...]

You guys are so horribly out of touch with reality that I don’t even know where to begin telling you how wrong you are.

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] Twitter is a Mistake Jump to Comments I disagree with Steve Gillmor’s recent essay, Rest in Peace, RSS, that declares RSS is dead.  There, I said [...]

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] Rest in Peace, RSS (techcrunchit.com) [...]

Twitter may now be more popular, but there’s still a big difference if my boss looks over my shoulder and sees me reading RSS “news” vs. Twitter.

hahahahaha.
man, I needed a laugh on friday.
thanks.

yes this article is flame bait, and the guy obviously has no idea what he’s talking about.

[...] can do interesting things with them. But for now it seems to be encouraging RSS reading — already a slow medium through feed readers — to be done even [...]

[...] the death of blogging, the demise of RSS has been proclaimed–methinks a bit [...]

[...] of RSS? Jump to Comments I’ve heard mentioned in a few forums recently about the ‘Death of RSS’. I’ve been thinking about it a bit recently myself. For those of you who don’t know [...]

[...] my attention to a blog post that referenced a few contentious debates about the death of blogging, RSS and even Twitter. The conversations referred to RSS as being DOA and argued that the public has not [...]

[...] articolul asta si nu intelegeam de ce se grabeste sa omoare RSS-ul? Poate ca unii sunt plictisiti de el, poate ca [...]

RSS has not been properly used yet. It will be resurrected when a better tool than Google Reader will rise. And it will rise… pretty soon

[...] was one of those rare cases – he wrote a piece over at TechCrunchIT today that got snuck into the main Techcrunch RSS feed.  The point he was trying to make was [...]

[...] to using Twitter? Steve Gillmor, writing at TechCrunch, lit a fire last week by declaring that RSS is dead. I haven’t been in Google Reader for months. Google Reader is the dominant RSS reader. I’ve [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] consider yourself old school. Most folks moved on to Google Reader lengthy ago, and soon after bailed on RSS entirely for the Real moment Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] to Google Reader long&#32&#97&#103o, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Ti&#109&#101&#32Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

twitter is getting famous, but for what reason i don’t know

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] user, consider yourself old school. Most people moved on to Google Reader long ago, and then bailed on RSS entirely for the Real Time Gang (Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, [...]

[...] Rest in Peace, RSS RSS is a formatting protocol, not a startup, dumbass. (tags: dumbass rss) [...]

[...] Interesting thoughts about the role (or lack thereof) of RSS in a Twittering world: Rest in Peace, RSS [...]

[...] article on Techcrunch strikes me as a bit reactionary. Its author, Steve Gillmore, is making the case that RSS [...]

RSS has none of the problems of Twitter and most of its advantages.
You wanna “follow” someone? Subscribe to that person’s RSS feed and you’ll get any updates.
Agreed, you cannot “reply” but you can write a message and that person will see it if he/she is also “following” your RSS feed. Sounds bizarre? It’s how Twitter does it (mostly); it is that stupid.

[...] E tem gente mais radical que simplesmente afirma: Rest In Peace, RSS. [...]

[...] purely sensational to declare that RSS is dead. RSS is an underexploited content syndication transport and has been mischaracterized as merely [...]

[...] Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a [...]

[...] Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a [...]

[...] Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a [...]

I was in the same hell until I found http://feedafever.com/ Rethinking of RSS feeds. It’s starts to work again.

[...] Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a [...]

Well, twitter in no way is as good as rss for the news reading.

[...] Reader is a very useful service for consum&#105&#110&#103 your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but&#32&#105&#116 lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the [...]

[...] Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a [...]

[...] Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a [...]

[...] Aug 26 Main Google Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a [...]

[...] Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a [...]

[...] Google Reader. Google Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a [...]

[...] Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a [...]

[...] in May, TechCrunch already pronounced RSS dead which makes it more shocking that today, again, Sam Diaz reveals he’s [...]

[...] Reading: Dare Obasanjo, Rest In Peace, RSS, Shooting At [...]

[...] can’t remember when the last time I read Google Reader, like Ttechcrunch i think RSS is dead. So there wasn’t any point to keep a big ass RSS button in the home page, rather now im [...]

[...] RSS inefficient, preferring instead Twitter or various aggregators like Memeorandum or Techmeme.  Steve Gillmor proclaimed in May that “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just [...]

[...] people say RSS is dead. I beg to differ. As a news junkie, RSS remains as vital to me as blood, and the Google Reader is [...]

[...] was the new messaging protocol bus, or something to that effect. “Rest In Peace, RSS,” he wrote, saying “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter…All my RSS feeds [...]

This sounds like one guy who no longer uses something saying that no one uses something. I use RSS all over the place, especially on Netvibes. So I guess now everyone does?

[...] Gillmor曾经预言过，RSS已死，twitter才是最新的信息沟通渠道。他在自己的博客里写到： 安息吧，RSS，是时候拥抱twitter了……Google [...]

[...] was the new messaging protocol bus, or something to that effect. “Rest In Peace, RSS,” he wrote, saying “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter…All my RSS feeds [...]

[...] months ago, Steve Gillmor wrote that “it’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter.” Sam Diaz piled [...]

[...] was the new messaging protocol bus, or something to that effect. “Rest In Peace, RSS,” he wrote, saying “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter…All my RSS feeds [...]

[...] was the new messaging protocol bus, or something to that effect. “Rest In Peace, RSS,” he wrote, saying “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter…All my RSS feeds [...]

[...] Gillmor stated: “Rest In Peace, RSS,” he wrote, saying “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter…All my RSS feeds are in [...]

[...] もちろん、Steve Gillmorは大喜びだろう。何しろ彼は、RSSは死んでTwitterが新しいメッセージプロトコルのようなものになる、と公言していたのだから。「RSSよ、安らかに眠れ」と題してこう書いていた、「RSSを完全に捨ててTwitterに乗り換える時が来た…、私のRSSフィードは全部Google Readerの中にある。もう、そこに行くことはない。フィードが全部Google Readerにあって、そこへ行かないということは、二度とRSSを使わない、ということだ。」 [...]

Thank heavens Steve Gillmor articles are relegated to TechCrunchIT so they no longer appear in my RSS feed.

[...] was the new messaging protocol bus, or something to that effect. “Rest In Peace, RSS,” he wrote, saying “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter…All my RSS feeds [...]

[...] was the new messaging protocol bus, or something to that effect. “Rest In Peace, RSS,” he wrote, saying “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter…All my RSS feeds [...]

[...] was the new messaging protocol bus, or something to that effect. “Rest In Peace, RSS,” he wrote, saying “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter…All my RSS feeds [...]

[...] Gillmor曾经宣称RSS正在死亡，而Twitter正成为新的信息管道，或许Dick [...]

[...] Communications (187), Feed Readers (6), Feeds (24), News (77), RSS (17), Twitter (257) Mr. Rest In Peace, RSS, aka Dick Costolo, is the new chief operating officer at Twitter; http://bit.ly/Xns4O [...]

[...] was the new messaging protocol bus, or something to that effect. “Rest In Peace, RSS,” he wrote, saying “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter…All my RSS feeds [...]

[...] Rest in Peace, RSS [...]

[...] May, TechCrunch wrote the obit for RSS. Yesterday, after Feedburner founder Dick Costolo became COO of Twitter, the blog danced on [...]

[...] Twitter was the new messaging protocol bus, or something to that effect. “Rest In Peace, RSS,” he wrote, saying “It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter…All my RSS feeds are in [...]

[...] set to declare that RSS is no longer the foremost pipeline for news and information on the Web. Steve Gillmor and innumerable others have said they’ve abandoned their RSS readers in favor of Twitter. [...]

[...] set to declare that RSS is no longer the foremost pipeline for news and information on the Web. Steve Gillmor and innumerable others have said they’ve abandoned their RSS readers in favor of Twitter. Twitter [...]

[...] set to declare that RSS is no longer the foremost pipeline for news and information on the Web. Steve Gillmor and innumerable others have said they’ve abandoned their RSS readers in favor of Twitter. Twitter [...]

[...] set to declare that RSS is no longer the foremost pipeline for news and information on the Web. Steve Gillmor and innumerable others have said they’ve abandoned their RSS readers in favor of Twitter. [...]

[...] set to declare that RSS is no longer the foremost pipeline for news and information on the Web. Steve Gillmor and innumerable others have said they’ve abandoned their RSS readers in favor of Twitter. Twitter [...]

Steve Gilmor is correct that Twitter or FriendFeed could replace RSS and has partially done so already. The reality is that today you can subscribe to an RSS feed of Twitter posts and this just proves that RSS lives in a more foundational place in the Internet that is not going away anytime soon. I think that it is more likely that over time RSS will disappear into the fabric of the the communications on the Internet as these RSS feeds disappear into software and web-services to contine to deliver text, images and audio and video podcasts. These areas are still growing in use and would be silly to think that they would be going away ever.

[...] set to declare that RSS is no longer the foremost pipeline for news and information on the Web. Steve Gillmor and innumerable others have said they’ve abandoned their RSS readers in favor of Twitter. [...]

[...] set to declare that RSS is no longer the foremost pipeline for news and information on the Web. Steve Gillmor and innumerable others have said they’ve abandoned their RSS readers in favor of Twitter. [...]

[...] RSS Dead? A few months Steve Gillmor posted an article called Rest In Peace, RSS. He has this notion that the real-time web will take over and supersede RSS. If there’s one [...]

[...] This idea came to me by way of TechCrunch, which covered the movement of Feedburner founder Dick Costolo from Google to Twitter. In the article, Mike Arrington references Steve Gillmor’s piece from May where he proclaims RSS dead. [...]

[...] arg&#117&#109ent&#115 we’ve &#115een range fro&#109 “&#116hese days &#73 &#111nly &#117se &#84wi&#116&#116er” to “I d&#111n’t u&#115e G&#111&#111&#103le Re&#97der &#97nym&#111re”. Tha&#116 [...]

[...] there was some ridiculous discussion about the death of RSS. It started with Steve Gillmor, moved on to Mike Arrington, continued with peHUB, and got so out of hand that Fred had to post [...]

[...] That said, I still feel the need to make my argument heard, possibly again.  The notion that Twitter is going to replace RSS is simply absurd.  I could end the post on that sentence alone, but I [...]

[...] ReadWriteWeb, Steve Gillmore and [...]

[...] RSS formátu za mŕtvy nie je záležitosťou posledných týždňov či dní, napríklad Steve Gilmor o tom napísal už v máji tohto roku. To čo ma primälo k napísaniu tohto článku, bola [...]

[...] and the re-emergence of web-publishing in an old-school stylee in the wake of Steve Gillmor’s farcical claim that RSS is dead (presumably it took three months for anyone to notice this post because they were following it in [...]

[...] inizia a maggio scorso, quando Steve Gillmore di TecCrunchIT pubblica “Rest in Peace, RSS”. In ipotetico scontro a suon di “numero di utilizzi”, l’autore indicava perdente [...]

[...] flux AFP) que Twitter pourrait bien combler. C’est en tout cas le point de vue de certains : Rest in Peace RSS et Twitter humanise la technologie RSS. Les arguments avancés sont qu’avec Twitter la masse [...]

[...] I first saw a post on TechCrunch claiming that RSS is dead because of Twitter, I was surprised that people would come [...]

[...] from pointless short-form broadcasting to real-time news feed, and just like that the bloggers are starting to write off RSS. Too slow, too clunky, too old, and this and the other… but before the “publish” [...]

[...] to the party. To be fair, TechCrunchIT is not in my Google Reader and I wasn’t there when Steve Gillmor took its pulse. Rather I was alerted to the fact that RSS had passed by way of Twitter. (case in point?) Sam Diaz [...]

[...] Gillmor hat bereits Anfang Mai RSS für tot und Twitter zum Nachfolger von RSS erklärt. It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to [...]

[...] BTW, RSS is NOT dead; Twitter has (ironically self-imposed) limitations. [...]

[...] is the feed reading system is getting a much needed upgrade especially with all this talk of it being dead. RSS? [...]

[...] pozytywnie uzależniony (podobnie jak od kawy). Po części śmieszą, po części irytują mnie dyskusje nad śmiercią RSSów, ich archaicznością w epoce natychmiastowości spod znaku Twittera. Nie przeszkadza mi (a nawet [...]

[...] Rest in Peace, RSS ; [...]

[...] afgelopen weken en maanden zoemde het plots in de blogosfeer rond: RSS is dood. Zoals wel vaker behoeft zo’n bericht enige [...]

[...] כמו של סטיב גילמור, "RSS, נוח על משכבך בשלום", חוטאים לאמת אך לא לעיקר. הזמן הוא משאב מוגבל ובהיות [...]

[...] before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead. Long live the [...]

[...] RSS may be slowly dying, startups are still building interesting products around the stale technology. Launched at [...]

[...] RSS may be slowly dying, startups are still building interesting products around the stale technology. Launched at [...]

[...] RSS may be slowly dying, startups are still building interesting products around the stale technology. Launched at [...]

[...] The next step was to follow some of the popular accounts on Twitter which, at the time of this posting, Aston Kutcher maintains one of the most popular accounts accounts. I’m not a huge fan of the actor, but his online presence is outstanding. He is very involved in social networking, and being mentioned by him online is probably worth more than months of Google Advertising. He has a large, loyal following, and his Twitter account is simply a medium he uses to communicate his opinions and interests to the millions of Twitter accounts that follow him. He’ll post websites, news articles, youtube videos, pictures, and much more. This is when I realized it, that Twitter to me is the “What comes next” after RSS feeds. This was new to me, but was also mentioned in a Techcrunch article: Rest in Peace, RSS. [...]

I have been using Twitter for only 2 months, but it did impact dramatically my look-for-info experience. Especially with a tweet browser like TweetDesk. Read on.

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[...] After all, RSS never really caught on as a mainstream technology, few outside of blogging and tech circles actively use it, and its use in those circles seems to be waning. [...]

[...] you heard? RSS is dead. Well, honestly, I don’t think that will happen anytime soon. Either way, I decided that I [...]

I would not say RSS is exactly dead. Twitter has definitely taken a large portion of the market, but RSS is still an effective way of obtaining information on certain subjects

[...] use Google Reader for my RSS feeds. (Yes, I know Twitter killed RSS, and I’m just dragging its corpse around.) In fact, I love it. Between the web interface and [...]

[...] que nada, esta discusión está LEJOS de ser nueva o reciente. Ya desde mayo se discutía este tema. Personalmente en ese momento me pareció algo bastante absurdo, al igual que a muchos. Hoy dia, [...]

[...] mean they actually read the thing.  I’m seeing a lot of information lately on the death of RSS and I’m fairly well convinced.  Myself, I use to to follow a couple particular topics and [...]

[...] for the innovators to move on to a new frontier.  Steve Gillmor, one of the early RSS champions recently annonced RSS is dead, and is turning his attention to other areas.  In any community there must be active discussion of [...]

[...] 6, 2009 by ebilodeau Steve Gillmor comments on how he no longer reads RSS feeds, relying on FriendFeed to aggregate his content. I’ve wired up TCIT, the Gillmor Gang feed, and [...]

[...] RSS is dead. [...]

[...] an article published in yesterday’s TechCrunch, Gillmor pronounces the death of RSS (Really Simple Syndication). He even proclaimed that Twitter [...]

[...] barely made it into 2009! Even in this sup­posed age of the death of the per­sonal blog and the pro­claimed end of RSS, I still felt like shar­ing my life and thoughts and work with oth­ers, not to sat­isfy my own [...]

[...] : Worse than not blogging, no1 on the Real Time Web Scoble Gilmor RSS is dead bandwagon even bothers to read feeds anymore; “My friends on twitter will link to the top stories” – Sorry to disappoint u [...]

[...] industry friends’ + there is The Real Time Web Scoble Gilmor RSS is dead bandwagon who dont bother to read feeds anymore; “My friends on twitter will link to the top stories” – Sorry to disappoint u [...]

[...] isn’t dead, it just got pushed down the stack. >> Some time ago Steve Gillmor said that RSS was dead. Now, TechCrunch writers are known to exaggerate, and I think that Gillmore was really trying to [...]

[...] need to create an account) and you can import it to the reader of your choice as well. Just don’t tell Steve Gillmor. Your customized feed, on your CrunchBase home page or in your RSS inbox: [...]

[...] need to create an account) and you can import it to the reader of your choice as well. Just don’t tell Steve Gillmor.Your customized feed, on your CrunchBase home page or in your RSS inbox:Crunch Network: CrunchGear [...]

[...] need to create an account) and you can import it to the reader of your choice as well. Just don’t tell Steve Gillmor. Your customized feed, on your CrunchBase home page or in your RSS inbox: Tweet [...]

[...] If RSS is more your style, you now have the ability to create a custom RSS feed based on pages on CrunchBase that interest you – maybe the Nexus One, for example. Every page in CrunchBase has a “Follow” button that will add all major milestones for that person, product, or company to your custom RSS feed. The feed will appear on your account page (you’ll need to create an account) and you can import it to the reader of your choice as well. Just don’t tell Steve Gillmor. [...]

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[...] As TechCrunchIT put it this Spring in a post titledRest in Peace, RSS: [...]

[...] kon worden: het draagt de potentie van een hoogstpersoonlijke nieuwsfeed.  Een voorloper als Steve Gillmor heeft zijn Google Reader al maanden niet meer geopend, vertelde hij afgelopen voorjaar: It’s time [...]

[...] Ter extra overpeinzing. [...]

This has to be one of the most stupid articles I have ever read.

[...] omaksujat Suomessa ja ulkomailla ovat keskustelleet jo jonkin aikaa siitä, kuinka Twitter tulee hyvin todennäköisesti korvaamaan [...]

[...] 2009, a great deal of discussion has been going on regarding the death of RSS. Proponents of the death of RSS believe that services like Twitter and Friendfeed are replacing [...]

[...] almost get enjoyment out of claiming “RSS Is Dead”. The main problem with completely switching off RSS and on to Twitter is that there is a lot of noise – not to say that RSS isn’t [...]

[...] and has a nice little RSS icon that lights up to let you know there are new posts to be read. RSS is dead? I think [...]

[...] barrow a line from Mark Twain, the reports of RSS’s death have been greatly exaggertated. Okay, so RSS readers aren’t used by a lot of people, but they [...]

[...] even if RSS is never destined to become a mainstream format for delivering content online, reports of its death will prove to be greatly exaggerated. The internet needs a format which, like vinyl, appeals to the [...]

Direct usage of RSS is far from being replaced, but I could see it happening someday. Just not this year.

Good post, what does this have to do with the beatles tho?

[...] curated who I followed more or less identically to my Reader curation. Some people claim  Twitter killed RSS, which powers Reader.  I find this silly.  I read Twitter on my phone and do Reader on my [...]

[...] van het realtime web (lees: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed etc.) is RSS inmiddels al meerdere keren morsdood verklaard.  Onterecht, vinden anderen, waaronder ook ik. Want Feedly en vooral Lazyfeed bewijzen [...]

[...] Rest in Peace, RSS – TechCruch, May 2009 [...]

[...] Rest in Peace, RSS – TechCruch, May 2009 [...]

[...] led some bloggers to declare that RSS is dead, despite the fact that Twitter itself supports RSS [...]

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[...] the site has been in jeopardy ever since the launch of Google Reader long ago, compounded by the shift from RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] the site has been in jeopardy ever since the launch of Google Reader long ago, compounded by the shift from RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] the site has been in jeopardy ever since the launch of Google Reader long ago, compounded by the shift from RSS to realtime news [...]

+1 for the stupidest article on techcrunch.

if rss is dead, why don’t techcrunch pull the plug on it?

[...] the site has been in jeopardy ever since the launch of Google Reader long ago, compounded by the shift from RSS to realtime news [...]

RSS is not dead!

END OF DISCUSSION!

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[...] los necrófilos 2.0 la han cogido con el RSS  y han anunciado su muerte. En mi caso el RSS y sus agregadores es esencial para mi trabajo y no me parece que vaya a [...]

[...] We also mourned the loss of RSS. [...]

[...] 我们还悼念过 RSS，为这事，我记得 Dave Winer 还在 twitter 上 DM，言简意赅地说 stop fucking with RSS … [...]

[...] 我们还悼念过 RSS，为这事，我记得 Dave Winer 还在 twitter 上 DM，言简意赅地说 stop fucking with RSS … [...]

[...] also mourned the loss of RSS. Who uses this [...]

[...] También lamentó la pérdida de RSS. [...]

[...] 我们也悼念了RSS的离开 [...]

[...] perdidas del 2009, el Feed RSS ha muerto, lo mataron las integraciones de paginas con Twitter y las paginas de fans de [...]

[...] We also mourned the loss of RSS. [...]

[...] past few years. I would bet that since the rise of Twitter, it has gone way, way down. RSS still isn’t dead, but with things like Twitter, Facebook, and new sub-tools like Flipboard for the iPad, it is [...]

[...] past few years. I would bet that since the rise of Twitter, it has gone way, way down. RSS still isn’t dead, but with things like Twitter, Facebook, and new sub-tools like Flipboard for the iPad, it is [...]

[...] past few years. I would bet that since the rise of Twitter, it has gone way, way down. RSS still isn’t dead, but with things like Twitter, Facebook, and new sub-tools like Flipboard for the iPad, it is [...]

[...] past few years. I would bet that since the rise of Twitter, it has gone way, way down. RSS still isn’t dead, but with things like Twitter, Facebook, and new sub-tools like Flipboard for the iPad, it is [...]

[...] past few years. I would bet that since the rise of Twitter, it has gone way, way down. RSS still isn’t dead, but with things like Twitter, Facebook, and new sub-tools like Flipboard for the iPad, it is [...]

[...] ひとつ残念なのは、直近30日のトレンド情報は表示してくれるものの、そうした動きがここ数年でどのように変化してきたのかがわからないということだ。Twitterが普及し始めて以来、RSSの利用頻度は間違いなくおちている。もちろんRSSはまだ死に絶えてはいないが、TwitterやFacebook、ないしiPadで使えるFlipboardのようなものの登場で、新着記事を広めるという役目を徐々に終えつつあるように思う。 [...]

[...] the site has been in jeopardy ever since the launch of Google Reader long ago, compounded by the shift from RSS to realtime news streams. Over the past few years, the site hasn’t launched any new or [...]

[...] the site has been in jeopardy ever since the launch of Google Reader long ago, compounded by the shift from RSS to realtime news streams. Over the past few years, the site hasn’t launched any new or [...]

[...] the site has been in jeopardy ever since the launch of Google Reader long ago, compounded by the shift from RSS to realtime news streams. Over the past few years, the site hasn’t launched any new or [...]

[...] the site has been in jeopardy ever since the launch of Google Reader long ago, compounded by the shift from RSS to realtime news streams. Over the past few years, the site hasn’t launched any new or [...]

[...] their announcement they quoted an article from Steve Gillmor in TechCrunch where he says: .. being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] the site has been in jeopardy ever since the launch of Google Reader long ago, compounded by the shift from RSS to realtime news streams. Over the past few years, the site hasn’t launched any new or [...]

[...] the site has been in jeopardy ever since the launch of Google Reader long ago, compounded by the shift from RSS to realtime news streams. Over the past few years, the site hasn’t launched any new or [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year, being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] Bloglines similarly blames broader trends for its demise, saying, “As Steve Gillmor pointed out inTechCrunch last year, being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as [...]

Bloglines macht dicht…

Trotz Twitter, Facebook und anderer sozialer Netze gibt es noch etliche Dinosaurier wie mich, die das Netz noch über einen guten alten Feedreader im Auge behalten. Seit Jahren nutze ich den Dienst von Bloglines, um webbasiert auf meine abonierten Feeds…

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year, being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year, being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year, being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] be widely used for its intended function, but that also doesn’t mean that it’s dead, contrary to what TechCrunch may say, just an indication that the function is changing.Changing FacesRSS may not be a destination much [...]

[...] one. Sure, perhaps I’m a bit partial because Steve Gillmor set the discussion in motion in May of 2009 for TechCrunchIT. But it’s still interesting to watch all the sides swarm around the topic. But what’s [...]

[...] one. Sure, perhaps I’m a bit partial because Steve Gillmor set the discussion in motion in May of 2009 for TechCrunchIT. But it’s still interesting to watch all the sides swarm around the topic. But what’s [...]

[...] one. Sure, perhaps I’m a bit partial because Steve Gillmor set the discussion in motion in May of 2009 for TechCrunchIT. But it’s still interesting to watch all the sides swarm around the topic. But what’s [...]

[...] the site has been in jeopardy ever since the launch of Google Reader long ago, compounded by the shift from RSS to realtime news streams. Over the past few years, the site hasn’t launched any new or [...]

[...] one. Sure, perhaps I’m a bit partial because Steve Gillmor set the discussion in motion in May of 2009 for TechCrunchIT. But it’s still interesting to watch all the sides swarm around the topic. But what’s [...]

[...] テク業界の終りのない議論の中で、私のお気入りの一つが「RSSは死んだ」論だ。もっともこれはSteve Gilmoreが2009年5月の TechCrunchITで言い出した話なので、今更何をと思うかもしれないが、今でもこれにまつわる議論は見ていて興味深い。そして最近一番面白いのが、RSSは死んだと騒ぐ人ひとりにつき、それに反論する記事を書く人が10人は出てくることだ。 [...]

[...] one. Sure, perhaps I’m a bit partial because Steve Gillmor set the discussion in motion in May of 2009 for TechCrunchIT. But it’s still interesting to watch all the sides swarm around the topic. But what’s [...]

[...] one. Sure, perhaps I’m a bit partial because Steve Gillmor set the discussion in motion in May of 2009 for TechCrunchIT. But it’s still interesting to watch all the sides swarm around the topic. But what’s [...]

[...] one. Sure, perhaps I’m a bit partial because Steve Gillmor set the discussion in motion in May of 2009 for TechCrunchIT. But it’s still interesting to watch all the sides swarm around the topic. But what’s [...]

[...] rumbles that the RSS feed are dying have been going on for some time now, yet of the over the last few days with the news that Bloglines is [...]

[...] quoted Steve Gillmor as a reason for their decision: ..being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] also interested in seeing how some feed readers are handling Facebook and Twitter.  As the pundits at TechCrunch stated that those two products seem to have changed the face and flow of [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] this infor­ma­tion has become a social expe­ri­ence. As Steve Gillmor poin­ted out in TechCrunch last year, being locked in an RSS rea­der makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

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[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] has grossly overstepped the the delivery mark. A classic example of this is Steve Gillmor’s pre-emptive announcement on the death of RSS. Gillmor is a longtime ‘Valley technology journalist and former contributing editor to ZDNet. [...]

[...] que nos venimos haciendo ya desde hace algún tiempo. Desde blogs de reconocido prestigio como Techcrunch, que lo daba por muerto a mediados de 2009, hasta la más reciente polémica a raiz del cierre de [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] We also mourned the loss of RSS. [...]

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[...] Links: Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com (at least for a few more days) Ask.com’s Statement: Bloglines Update Techcrunch Article: Rest in Peace, RSS [...]

[...] weekend we were told RSS feeds are dead and Semantic search engines will kill Google.  Awesome technology… but is it game [...]

[...] for recommendations for RSS readers I have discovered that a whole bunch of commentators think that RSS is dead, or conversely argue that RSS is not dead, and have been proclaiming this both ways for at least a [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

[...] for around $10 million, the site has been in trouble, facing competition from Google Reader and a shift away RSS to realtime news [...]

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[...] this beautiful app be enough to save the doomed RSS reader method of consuming news? Long-term, no. But it does make it a great-looking [...]

[...] this beautiful app be enough to save the doomed RSS reader method of consuming news? Long-term, no. But it does make it a great-looking [...]

[...] this beautiful app be enough to save the doomed RSS reader method of consuming news? Long-term, no. But it does make it a great-looking [...]

[...] this beautiful app be enough to save the doomed RSS reader method of consuming news? Long-term, no. But it does make it a great-looking [...]

[...] this beautiful app be enough to save the doomed RSS reader method of consuming news? Long-term, no. But it does make it a great-looking [...]

[...] this beautiful app be enough to save the doomed RSS reader method of consuming news? Long-term, no. But it does make it a great-looking [...]

[...] ya es común leer que algo ha muerto. Wired dijo que la web estaba muerta, TechCrunch dice que el RSS está muerto y que todos ahora usemos Twitter, al igual que las típicas llamadas telefónicas y que ahora nos [...]

[...] this beautiful app be enough to save the doomed RSS reader method of consuming news? Long-term, no. But it does make it a great-looking [...]

[...] – “Rest In Peace, RSS” [...]

[...] – “Rest In Peace, RSS” [...]

[...] striking. The different philosophy regarding tech is a reminder of why many people think RSS is an endangered technology. Millions of geeks using a product doesn’t make is a success, it all the non-geeks that allow [...]

[...] – “Rest In Peace, RSS” [...]

[...] – “Rest In Peace, RSS” [...]

[...] networks such as Twitter and Facebook.  At least that’s what I read over at TechCrunchIT in an article from back in May of 2009.  I’m here to tell you that there is at least one more person using [...]

[...] tehnologija za korištenje, i dalje traži određeno predznanje. Steve Gilmor i mnogi drugi blogeri predviđali su kako će RSS nestati dolaskom tehnologija koje omogućavaju jednostavnije praćenje sadržaja, ali to se nije dogodilo. [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

[...] Texto original publicado no TechCrunch IT Rest in Peace, RSS – Steve Gillmor – 5 de maio 2009 http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-peace-rss/ [...]

[...] and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and [...]

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[...] and Syndication Technologies of 2010 December 8th, 2010 | admin | 0 Comments » “RSS is Dead“, tech sage Steve Gillmor said in May of 2009. I know that’s not true, because I spend [...]

[...] “RSS is Dead“, tech sage Steve Gillmor said in May of 2009. I know that’s not true, because I spend a lot of my work and my leisure time reading RSS and other forms of syndicated content feeds. [...]

[...] "RSS is Dead", tech sage Steve Gillmor said in May of 2009. I know that's not true, because I spend a lot of my work and my leisure time reading RSS and other forms of syndicated content feeds. [...]

[...] “RSS is Dead“, tech sage Steve Gillmor said in May of 2009. I know that’s not true, because I spend [...]