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The story of RSS is so telling.

I loved Google for the way that promoted it so heavily. I thought that it was conceivable that a corporation need not be evil..... How naive!

But then Google dropped rss! Just when they had everyone there!! Why?

It was by design. It was an attempt to kill a protocol that supported disintermediated information, where the user could get information directly from source.

I've never stopped using rss - it is hands down the best way to get information.




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