Today, RSS is a shell of its former self, casually subsumed as the transport for 140+ content into the social stream. There, RSS items are fed into aggregators and husked for their behavioral signals, packaged as Tweets and sold for pennies on the whuffie dollar.

Steve Gillmor for TechCrunch - Rest in Peace, RSS telling us that apples are the new oranges.

According to Steve, it’s time to cut off RSS feeds because they arent real time, and therefore arent good enough as a news source.

Sure Twitter is a ‘live’ service and allows for interaction, essentially a global conversation, allowing for faster distribution of news, but it also brings with it the general noise of large numbers of people interacting with each other.

Source: techcrunchit.com