I don't think Google Reader killed RSS. Sure, it was nice to have a common place to discover feeds but I don't think that was enough to make or break RSS. I th

I don't think Google Reader killed RSS. Sure, it was nice to have a common place to discover feeds but I don't think that was enough to make or break RSS. I think the failing of RSS is that no major browsers have RSS indicators anymore. Defaults are king and if users need to install an extension, view source and search for feeds, paste the URL into a reader and hope that there is a feed or click an RSS link and wonder what this XML is then >90% of users won't use it. If browsers add a "subscribe to this site" button that opens your reader or redirects to your "app store" to get one then there is a decent chance of non-trivial user adoption.