This is fascinating. I just saw today's
This Week In Review, by the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard. (Warning: May prove addictive to media geeks.) It has a section about a debate concerning the death of two media forms: the RSS feed and the press release. I don't believe either are dead. I'm more interested in the press release though - I don't really care as much about the RSS feed. Mostly that's because as someone who looks for the RSS button whenever I find a new blog I should be reading, I think, whatever the flaws, it's here to stay. Dave Winer says the same
here, and points out the one big flaw by comparison with Twitter (and one smaller one that's more of an annoyance than anything):
