Marco “Instapaper” Arment in praise of RSS:
The true power of the RSS inbox is keeping you informed of new posts that you probably won’t see linked elsewhere, or that you really don’t want to miss if you scroll past a few hours of your Twitter timeline.
If you can’t think of any sites you read that fit that description, you should consider broadening your horizons.
I’ve been baffled by how so many people seem not to notice the value of this. And twitter doesn’t help:
The fundamental flaw in the stream paradigm is that items from different feeds don’t have equal value: I don’t mind missing a random New York Times post, but I’ll regret missing the only Dan’s Data post this month because it was buried under everyone’s basketball tweets and nobody else I follow will link to it later.