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Rss was just a transitional technology. Twitter and Facebook have made it far easier for normal people to get news updates, and for developers there are API's. RSS will live on for podcast delivery (at least until apple dropsre-invents" podcasting) but other than that, let's just let RSS rest in peace.

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Couldn't disagree more. Neither Twitter nor Facebook, and least of all every dinky little site offering a homebrewed API are an even remotely adequate replacement for RSS.

Twitter and Facebook have NOT made anything easier for normal people, they just managed to get the mindshare to force people to deal with their inadequacies, whereas a million different sites offering RSS feeds somehow never turned into something everyone and their dog "had to" use to be cool.

I use RSS daily as my main news source, check Facebook maybe every other day and never could figure out the point of Twitter.

news in 140 chars ... reminds me of that movie where they water their plants with soda.

It's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

It was an energy drink, "Brawndo", not soda.

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