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Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS

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Re: Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS

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Post by eagleal »

leon_ wrote: post #30
dholowiski wrote: post #26

Rss was just a transitional technology. Twitter and Facebook have made it far easier for normal people to get news updates, and for developers there are API's. RSS will live on for podcast delivery (at least until apple dropsre-invents" podcasting) but other than that, let's just let RSS rest in peace.

news in 140 chars ... reminds me of that movie where they water their plants with soda.

It's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

Re: Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS

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Post by thaumaturgy »

nikcub wrote: post #27
eli wrote: post #9

UPDATE: Dave Stevens shared a hack around this in the comments that you can use with the Twitter API. Using a well-documented feature of the API? That is not a hack.

You must have missed the memo where now almost anything you do on a computer is hacking. Got a form to submit in Django? I'm hacking. Got nodejs to run a sample app? I'm hacking. Integrate a shitty jQuery plugin? I'm hacking. RTFM - nope, hacking.

Ironically, you seem to have forgotten that "hack" is also a synonym for "kludge" -- long before programmers started referring to themselves as hackers as a term of pride and endearment, many writers were referred to as "hacks".

I don't see any problem with referring to using a documented workaround as a "hack" in that context.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS

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Post by brazzy »

dholowiski wrote: post #26

Rss was just a transitional technology. Twitter and Facebook have made it far easier for normal people to get news updates, and for developers there are API's. RSS will live on for podcast delivery (at least until apple dropsre-invents" podcasting) but other than that, let's just let RSS rest in peace.

Couldn't disagree more. Neither Twitter nor Facebook, and least of all every dinky little site offering a homebrewed API are an even remotely adequate replacement for RSS.

Twitter and Facebook have NOT made anything easier for normal people, they just managed to get the mindshare to force people to deal with their inadequacies, whereas a million different sites offering RSS feeds somehow never turned into something everyone and their dog "had to" use to be cool.

I use RSS daily as my main news source, check Facebook maybe every other day and never could figure out the point of Twitter.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS

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Post by follower »

petervandijck wrote: post #6

And thus become even more walled gardens (a proprietary API doesn't count as "open"). The pendulum is still swinging towards "closed", but I sense it's about to swing back.

> but I sense it's about to swing back.

I'm curious what you're seeing that gives you this sense? From where I'm sitting I see things swinging even further toward closed which is rather disheartening but I'd be happy to be shown otherwise.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS

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Post by petervandijck »

follower wrote: post #37
petervandijck wrote: post #6

And thus become even more walled gardens (a proprietary API doesn't count as "open"). The pendulum is still swinging towards "closed", but I sense it's about to swing back.

> but I sense it's about to swing back. I'm curious what you're seeing that gives you this sense? From where I'm sitting I see things swinging even further toward closed which is rather disheartening but I'd be happy to be shown otherwise.

Just the fact that we're so extremely closed now. It just has to swing back at some point.
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