> Even before it's demise, a lot of content publishers > were only publishing headlines and abstracts via RSS, > with the intent to drive clicks to host

> Even before it's demise, a lot of content publishers > were only publishing headlines and abstracts via RSS, > with the intent to drive clicks to hosted articles. yes, but that can be helpful as well: spiegel online (biggest german news site) has feeds for every subtopic; for an example for every sport an own feed. i subscribe to ~20 of this subtopics and i'm sure i will never miss an article about one of that topics.