The point isn't RSS; it's that the demise of Google Reader coincided with a phase transition. Not unlike the way AOL "killed" Usenet. Overall, people don't sc

The point isn't RSS; it's that the demise of Google Reader coincided with a phase transition. Not unlike the way AOL "killed" Usenet. Overall, people don't scale. Any more than that joyous little stand-alone afternoon script in your favorite tool can survive blowing up to fully distributed, asynchronous cloud deployment. The most fun I'm having in the age of social media is MeWe.