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RSS is alive (again) and well again for me, too. NetNewsWire was the first Mac app I bought in 2002, and today I'm using the latest incarnation of it. The bigg
by incanus77 5y ago
RSS is alive (again) and well again for me, too. NetNewsWire was the first Mac app I bought in 2002, and today I'm using the latest incarnation of it.
The biggest difference to me about modern RSS is the unrealized potential and lack of imagination.
There were some efforts at making it a bit more successful around 2005 with the likes of Feedburner and ads, but eventually it was realized that walled gardens were easier than open standards.
If we had put one tenth as much effort and imagination into making RSS a way that you could get timely information from the web, in such a way that it was as common and no-brainer to people as email is, as we did for web ads, user tracking, and email spy pixels, I think the web would be a lot healthier today.