Memes like this bother me ala the whole declaring things dead. The problem of subscribing to content still exists. It always will. When RSS came along did th

Memes like this bother me ala the whole declaring things dead. The problem of subscribing to content still exists. It always will. When RSS came along did that kill email newsletters or email subscriptions to content? No. RSS was just another solution to that problem. Twitter, FB, social,etc. is just another solution to the problem, it doesn't mean it kills RSS. Is RSS used less now? Yup, but that doesn't mean it's dead. RSS has become a background technology. I haven't clicked the subscribe to RSS feed orange thingy in a while. I do use Pulse and get updates from key sites there. I bet that uses RSS to get the content. That's fine, that's probably how RSS should be used. Now everyone wins. If we're talking about direct syndication and subscription and not complementary tech ala fb/twitter, then I don't see anything killing it currently. Until the problem is no longer there, it's hard to say a technology ala solution to that problem is "dead".