When describing RSS to corporations and the state of the technology, I weave on the observation that all though RSS was a gift to us all when it emerged, the social evolution of the web today means that RSS no longer supports our need in the reader form. Recently I stumbled over Steve Gillmor´s article on TechCrunch, with the observation that RSS has been taken over by Twitter – and there it was, the obvious explanation to the state of RSS.
Unfortunately for Dave Winer – time has changed since 2002 when he released RSS version 2.0. Back then it was a major relief to have information pushed instead of pulled, but now RSS has turned into information overload with data that is quickly outdated. And since my Google Reader most of all reminds me of my inbox in worst of times – I stay away.
And yes – Twitter has taken its place. I want live information, from “real” people that I choose as my reliable source to information, with no sign of old data that needs to be processed. So thanks to Gillmor´s article I will be able to give a proper explanation of what happened to RSS – Twitter happened!
What happened to RSS? Twitter happened! Blog post: Twitter – the evolution of RSS http://bit.ly/11HPIU #twitterbogen
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Twitter – the evolution of RSS | Natasha Friis Saxberg http://bit.ly/25UoGF
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True… Twitter is hip and happening however I believe as a developer myself that RSS is here to stay and dare I say it?
Still has it’s uses – RSS is still a viable platform for data distribution and is a useful archive.
RSS was never meant to be a realtime platform as what Twitter is so I wouldn’t compare the two as both have their places in our media.
Good point – I do believe however that RSS will and must evolve to meet user expectations of a platform that doesn´t need to be maintained – so the problem might not be RSS but rather aggregation and filtering?