Comments on: Is RSS Really Dying?

By: RSS, döende innan det blev mainstream? — magnusnordin

RSS, döende innan det blev mainstream? — magnusnordin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:53:00 +0000

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By: Brad Balfour

Brad Balfour — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:27:36 +0000

Mark,
You are exactly describing the problem of Blog Overload. But filters aren't enough to deal with this. And sooner or later the problem will repeat on Twitter as either you follow more people or they crank up the volume of their tweets.
This is why we created Bscopes. It's a graphical approach to viewing the Blogosphere. You can use it to cut through the clutter. It's a supplement to your text based feed reader.
We'd be very interested in any feedback you can give on our approach. You can find the Bscope of the Mark Evans Blog at: http://www.bscopes.com/viewbscope.html?feedid=107...

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:39:57 +0000

Alec Saunders created a blog entry on this exact topic today as well (http://bit.ly/gvAC0), so if you'll forgive me – I'll just copy/paste my comment from there….

To dust off the old cliches…Twitter is a mile wide and an inch deep.

And, as usual, someone much smarter than me explained the depth of thought situation effectively (yet another reason to never abandon the RSS feeds).

http://bit.ly/Z6P0f

Twitter helps me discover some interesting new things or track an active meme, but there are some deep thinkers out there who I like to keep track of. Without RSS this is a tough job. Using Twitter to do it – impossible.

By: sfan

sfan — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:57:46 +0000

I am an active twitter user. I am also using RSS via iGoogle. I have set up a dozen thematic tabs, each with a variety of 'off the shelf" feeds from an array of theme specific publishers and, more importantly, dozens of key-word based feeds. This provides me with easily skimmed, broadly sourced information, organized by specific topics I track. Currently Twitter is orders of magnitude less productive and less effective than iGoogle.

Final point, are you sure twitter does not use RSS?

By: Pan Admun Republic of Western Blog

Pan Admun Republic of Western Blog — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:30:50 +0000

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.

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

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:46:57 +0000

I disagree completely and agree with all the other commenter, RSS is by no means dead. An saying so is a complete lack of understanding of technology. I'll keep on telling people, Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, et al are SERVICES, RSS on the other hand is a technology. This is like comparing Apples with Oranges. What Steve Gilmore wants to say, and even Mark says here is that for them, reading blogs is something of the past.

I agree with them in that, for some users, specially early adopter bloggers, fresh information can be gathered better from real time streams (although @Tim has a very good point). Nevertheless, that's one thing, and another is to say RSS is dead. It's like saying, Internet is dead when you want to say, I declared email bankruptcy. RSS is a standard based in xml, and it's used in plenty of things, not only blogs. It's generally a poll technology, but it can even work as push (SUP), so saying it's dead is just a complete lack of understanding.

Semantics, semantics, semantics

By: Martyr2

Martyr2 — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:16:11 +0000

As a developer I continue to develop services which consume and publish RSS. RSS is all about structured content delivery and has features that make it easily consumable on the net by software (it has syntax like that of XML after all).

Remember that post the other day you mentioned about journalism dying because of the lack of newspapers? Many of us had mentioned that journalism isn't dead, it is just going online. RSS is the driving force behind much of that. It is after all "Really Simple Syndication".

By: Tim A

Tim A — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:41:14 +0000

I disagree as well. The two have different uses. I use Twitter more for real-time information (once its an hour or two old I'm not going to be looking at it – I likely won't even see it). So anytime I'm not in front of Twitter and actually have time to click links I'm not going to even see that it was posted.

As for RSS, its sitting there waiting for me to read when I have the time to read it. I can be a week behind in catching up on some feeds and its still there for me.

By: Jerry Hung

Jerry Hung — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:46:04 +0000

RSS is here to stay, with me at least

I still like to know I control WHEN and WHERE I want information (pull), vs Twitter where information are kinda pushed to me, whether I want it or not. At the moment I am anti-twitter, and Google Reader is #1 in my book (that's how i got to this page)