An interesting Tweet from Paul Kedrosky gave me pause for thought:
@pkedrosky i haven't opened my RSS reader since June. Does that mean I am officially over that sort of thing? Am I a trend?
When Paul said that, I suddenly realized that I too am using RSS readers much less than I was say six months ago. In one sense, the conversations in which I am most interested and which get my attention are occurring in the Twitterverse. But there are still plenty of folk I know who are sceptical about Twitter's utility. These are people whose thoughts I also want to hear. 99.999% of the professionals I know have no clue about Twitter - and why should they? It can be a dreadful time sink.
To declare RSS reading as over is, I think, over reaching. However, RSS feeds are becoming a lot more mobile in that they can be used for targeted content widgets - as is the case for my sponsors section. Twitter sucks you in while RSS is something you can easily graze, digging in when required. There is room for both.
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