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Killing The 'RSS Is Dead' Debate

TechCrunch's MG Siegler contemplates the whole 'Death of RSS' media meme, which is presently one of his favorite industry "echo-chamber" debates. "What's most interesting lately is how for every one person that busts out the death of RSS meme, a dozen people seem to pop up with posts that refute it," he notes. Yet, "If RSS is doing just fine, shouldn't that be self-evident? Why do we need so many posts pointing out just how not dead RSS is?"

For his part, Siegler doesn't think RSS -- on its own -- is a consumer-friendly technology, although it does provide a "partial backbone" for friendlier services like Twitter and Facebook. For one, it's RSS that auto-syndicates the content from TechCrunch to Twitter and Facebook, Siegler points out. In the end, however, he believes the "reliance on RSS to pump the content into these services is going to continue to erode."

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