It's amazing how much a shift of management focus can change things... Google embraces RSS, develops the premiere online RSS reader, so good that even stand alone readers are largely abandoned... then google nukes RSS support from Chrome, and shutters Reader. And the world is worse off for it.

It definitely inspires a "never forget" kind of mindset, such that I don't trust relying on a SaaS that I don't have a personal exit strategy for.

Twitter took RSS as a concept and humanized it

RSS is an open format, Twitter is a walled garden.

If Twitter is making it more human, I'd rather be ruled by the robot army...