RSS as a mainstream content delivery platform for the average user is a concept that is probably dying. People are getting more accustomed to feeds more in the

RSS as a mainstream content delivery platform for the average user is a concept that is probably dying. People are getting more accustomed to feeds more in the form of Facebook and Twitter streams which use concepts that are easier to understand and use. RSS for power users (somewhere between Joe Schmoe and Scoble) is definitely not dead or dying. There's a lot of room to improve the end user experience too. Hopefully Google Reader's popularity doesn't detract others from trying to do better. RSS as a standardized content delivery mechanism for interoperability between systems is alive and well and not going anywhere any time soon. Having a standardized format makes interoperability so much easier. I should disclose that I work for a company that's heavily using RSS in this manor, so my viewpoints may be skewed.