Has this guy been living under a rock? Slashdot and Digg? seriously? RSS died because better systems came along which did a much better job at following source

Has this guy been living under a rock? Slashdot and Digg? seriously? RSS died because better systems came along which did a much better job at following sources "directly". He talks as if we no longer have any relationship with authors anymore, when Twitter and Facebook actually made audience and publishers closer than ever. RSS died because it wasn't necessary anymore. It's a typical pattern of pendulum swinging between centralization and decentralization. If you're going to say "It's time to get back to RSS", at least understand why RSS is dead. Then maybe you will have a real solution instead of a non solution like "go download feedly". Lastly, people blame Google for "killing RSS" by abandoning google reader, but these people have no idea. RSS was dead long before Google discontinued it. Instead of coming up with conspiracy theory, think about more plausible reason for why something would be disrupted by another piece of technology.