Online news gathering expands with greater access
Minnesota Daily — “Installing Really Simple Syndication readers and subscribing to services are active processes, and adoption by the masses has been slow in coming.”
Talks about the usual stuff: newspapers are dying, young people get news online, people like choice, RSS is really easy, RSS is really hard, etc. If this is news to you, check out the article.
My take is this: newspapers aren’t dying but they are being challenged and they have to adapt, and they need to capitalize on their existing meatspace subscribers. Further, RSS is a pretty good technology but it still isn’t easy enough for grandma yet. The technology needs to get easier or we just have to wait for folks to get a clue over a longer period of time. RSS, or something like RSS, will happen. It isn’t if, it is when.