{"id":5037,"date":"2015-09-30T15:33:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2015-09-23T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T16:12:24","slug":"linked-dan-moren-on-the-death-of-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/linked-dan-moren-on-the-death-of-rss\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: Dan Moren on the Death of RSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2015\/09\/on-rss-readers-and-the-much-exaggerated-death-of-rss\/\">via Six Colors:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>However, while RSS may not be dead, I don\u2019t think anybody would say that RSS readers are a growth industry, and that\u2019s where the challenges for NetNewsWire come in. As John himself writes in his earlier post about NetNewsWire<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For people who read the news because they\u2019re news junkies, or because their jobs involve following the news, RSS readers may well truly never die. But I would also argue that most of those people already have their apps, services, and workflows well established, and are unlikely to switch unless a new solution truly brings something they can\u2019t get anywhere else\u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m not a news junkie and my job doesn\u2019t revolve around knowing everything. In fact, I\u2019d say using Twitter, Facebook, Reddit would actually lead me to discover more variety of news that wouldn\u2019t come to my RSS reader. I subscribe to tech news so I won\u2019t know about current events unless it\u2019s on Facebook (which I no longer use) or NY Times.<\/p>\n<p>I do think that people who don\u2019t use RSS or dismiss it are doing themselves a huge disservice. RSS is mostly ad-free, full-text and very easy to read no matter how good or bad the web design is on the publisher\u2019s site. I love RSS! It\u2019s lightweight and very easy. The news comes to me and I don\u2019t have to seek it out. As I\u2019ve stopped use of social media like Twitter and Facebook, the more important RSS has become to me in finding out what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t use RSS, you might be missing great content that just so happened to not be shared by a friend. \u201cIf someone doesn\u2019t tweet a link to an article, was the article ever written?\u201d :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Six Colors: However, while RSS may not be dead, I don\u2019t think anybody would say that RSS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:15:33Z","apple_news_api_id":"83983d70-0290-4165-a52d-98fab1f22a75","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:15:33Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ag5g9cAKQQWWlLZj6sfIqdQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1jf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":254,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/a-different-time-rss-newsgroups-forums\/","url_meta":{"origin":5037,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 A Different Time&#8230; (RSS, NewsGroups &#038; Forums)","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I began using The Internet at a very young age. 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