"I've never understood the point of this "debate." RSS is the plumbing of the social web, and it's doing a fine job of it. Does it have some competitor that I'm missing that's fighting to replace it? This whole thing feels like technical semantics that most end users couldn't possibly care less about. Twitter is enabled by RSS (for crying out loud). It's just another RSS reader: every person you subscribe to is just another feed, no? It takes RSS as input, and produces RSS as output. And as far as Google Reader goes, it was pretty late to the stable of RSS readers. There's no shortage of alternatives for those seeking a different experience. Overall, I think readers in general have a ways to go to reach and enable a bigger swath of users." - Jeremy Schultz