Oh, No, the RSS Debate Again…
The “Email is Dead” theme is so last year, this year’s classic is the “RSS is Dead” debate, resurfacing every three months or so. Today it was likely sparked by the Googlers themselves, prompting Sam Diaz @ Between the Lines quickly declare he was no longer using feed readers. But Marshall Kirkpatrick says he “uses […]
How Many Times Can We Bury Bloglines? Google Reader Rules. But How Good is That?
Image by cambodia4kidsorg via Flickr TechCrunch put Bloglines in their Deadpool today. I think it’s long been there. I wrote my R.I.P Bloglines piece months ago, when Bloglines represented a whopping 4% of our feed readers, down from 25% 3 years ago. I declared: There is Only One Feed Reader – Google and I’m afraid […]
Moving Beyond RSS (Maybe)
Something weird is happening with me and RSS. I should preface this by saying that I’m a *classic* late adopter (insert irony here) for a ton of things (I don’t have an iPhone; hell, i don’t CARRY a cell phone 90% of the time), but a semi-early adopter for other things. The things I tend […]
The Bogus RSS Debate
Why Bogus? Because it’s not a real debate. It’s just bombastic statements, and a perfect link-bait – which I admit I’ve just taken. 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 […]
