Mostly because this title will garner more debate about The Wire v. The Sopranos than feed readers.
Feed readers aren't being killed off because they lack usefulness. They are being killed off because its tougher to drive traffic to your particular ecosystem if people can pre-screen why they want to visit in the first place.
Facebook and Twitter continue to lead the charge on locking out their data in the post 'Web 2.0' world and Google is simply following the trend.
RSS is useful and pragmatic. RSS is not a currency printing machine for the sites that have to provide feeds ergo it goes.
A tweet.
Mostly because this title will garner more debate about The Wire v. The Sopranos than feed readers.
Feed readers aren't being killed off because they lack usefulness. They are being killed off because its tougher to drive traffic to your particular ecosystem if people can pre-screen why they want to visit in the first place.
Facebook and Twitter continue to lead the charge on locking out their data in the post 'Web 2.0' world and Google is simply following the trend.
RSS is useful and pragmatic. RSS is not a currency printing machine for the sites that have to provide feeds ergo it goes.
Sad, really.