Amen, Sister! I have an assignment in my thesis class where students are required to subscribe to RSS feeds and report back on the experience. Every year, there are always students who have never heard of RSS -- and this year, a student who is openly ticked off that she's spent two years working in neuroscience labs and no one ever told her how to aggregate science news. I just don't think this element of digital life is being passed on much at all. And I agree -- there are quite a few blogs I've been to in the last few days that don't have RSS feeds; kind of disappointing. Also, now that I read on a tablet, too, I really, really appreciate it when the writer has some way of optimizing for mobile/tablet reading. - Mickey Schafer

The decision of browser-makers to drop the RSS icon on the address bar hasn't helped. I suspect a lot of sites have RSS feeds and relied on that icon rather than having on-page links. - Walt Crawford

Yes -- I've had several points of mild embarrassment this week when students have pointed to the tiny little letters in a menu bar for the RSS feed. Sigh. - Mickey Schafer