"RSS is best for following a large number of infrequently updated sites: sites that you’d never remember to check every day because they only post occasionally, and that your social-network friends won’t reliably find or link to."

Interesting thoughts on a feed reader for news types.

Cool observations on Twitter and how it relates to RSS.

Dave Winer's got his minimal blogging tool up and running. Sounds cool.

Dave Winer muses on how to work with RSS feeds that don't have titles.

"First, it's wonderful to see people get excited about the idea of a minimal blogging tool built around RSS. I think intuitively people are beginning to feel that it's time for something more than Twitter, and at the same time -- almost paradoxically -- something less than Twitter too."

RSS is alive and thriving at The Guardian. 8000 plus topic feeds can attest to that.

"So to the extent you're locked in, that's the extent you are not on the open web. The perfectly open web has zero lock-in. The silos are totally locked-in and therefore not on the open web."

"RSS is quiet and fast and professional and largely hype-free. Perhaps that's why it's not the flavor of the day."

"Anyway, I wanted to revisit blogging tools in light of all that we now know about blogging, which is a lot more than we knew the first few times around, in the mid-90s to the early 00s."

"But they fail to notice that everything is dead the same way RSS is, including their employers, their jobs, their way of life, etc etc. Because things change, and first visions of new things, even things that become wildly popular, are usually wrong."

Fred Wilson surveys some of the statistics avc.com gets from various traffic sources. Turns out RSS is still a heavy player for him.

Dave Winer's streaming feed of WikiLeaks coverage.

"Social streams may eclipse RSS, but the blogosphere's roots run deeper."

Dave Winer's ideas for how to reboot RSS.

"I stay with RSS because it's solid, it works, and no one can tell me I can't use it."