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<p> <span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight:
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4Cast #197: RSS is dead, long live the Tweet?</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;
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font-family: arial;">September 29th, 2010</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a title="rssface"
href="http://www.oplin.org/4cast/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/rssface.gif"><img
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alt="RSS sad face" height="58" width="62"></a><span
style="font-size: 16px; font-family: arial;
line-height: 110%;">The October 1 demise of
Bloglines that was announced a couple of weeks
ago launched a raft of articles about the
decline—or not—of RSS readers. Many libraries
use RSS feeds from their websites to pass along
news and announcements to their patron base.
Some people now think that RSS feeds are being
replaced by even shorter "feeds" from Facebook
and Twitter. Perhaps the lesson here for
libraries is to cover all your bases. Don't
depend on RSS alone to publish your news, and
don't ignore Facebook and Twitter. </span></p>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-has-killed-rss-readers-traffic-to-google-reader-down-27-year-over-year-2010-9">Twitter
has killed RSS readers</a> (Business
Insider/Henry Blodget) "RSS readers, the wave of
the future a few years ago, are now basically
toast, thanks largely (we think) to Twitter,
Facebook, and other forms of social media
(especially Twitter)."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://blog.ask.com/2010/09/bloglines-update.html">Bloglines
update</a> (Ask Official Blog, 9/10/2010) "The
Internet has undergone a major evolution. The
real-time information RSS was so astute at
delivering (primarily, blog feeds) is now gained
through conversations, and consuming this
information has become a social experience.
[...] Today RSS is the enabling technology — the
infrastructure, the delivery system. RSS is a
means to an end, not a consumer experience in
and of itself. As a result, RSS aggregator usage
has slowed significantly, and Bloglines isn’t
the only service to feel the impact. The writing
is on the wall."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://gigaom.com/2010/09/13/no-rss-is-not-dead-and-neither-are-rss-readers/">No,
RSS is not dead</a> (GigaOM/Mathew Ingram)
"While Twitter may be more real-time —and built
for consuming news in a way that relies on the
principle that 'if the news is important, it
will find me'—there is still a place for moving
outside of Twitter to look for alternative
sources. In fact, many of the tweets with links
that I wind up reading and saving come from
either RSS itself (from people's blogs published
to Twitter) or via someone's RSS reader."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/13/rss-is-not-not-not-not-not-dead/">Saying
"RSS is dead" is dead</a> (TechCrunch/MG
Siegler) "If I said 'RSS' to my mother, she
would have absolutely no idea what I was talking
about. If I said 'Twitter' or 'Facebook' to her,
she knows who those are — she even uses them.
That said, RSS does still often provide at least
a partial backbone for those services she does
know. For example, it's RSS that auto-syndicates
the content from TechCrunch to Twitter and
Facebook where she reads it."</li>
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Fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Last
February, <a
href="http://weblogs.hitwise.com/us-heather-hopkins/2010/02/facebook_largest_news_reader_1.html">Hitwise</a>
published data showing a significant decline in <em>visits</em>
to Google Reader, but now <a
href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/09/welcome-and-look-back.html">Google</a>
has published their own data showing that the
number of Reader <em>users</em> has been
continuously increasing. </div>
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