>This will be news to all the bloggers out there still successfully publishing things and getting read on the internet. "Died off" simply means the author does

>This will be news to all the bloggers out there still successfully publishing things and getting read on the internet. "Died off" simply means the author doesn't use it. RSS and Firefox are widely reported as dead, and surely buried somewhere near the BSDs. When you change the people around you to be more like you, those who differ no longer exist. So any voice that disagrees can not be human like you. This is the power of social media. Not a reaper of stale software and stuffy practices, but a surgical scythe on the user's sympathy for others.