Why email is STILL the killer app, RSS is not dead and Twitter will help you find it!
Death of RSS
This whole post was sparked by a blog post written by Andrew Chen - particularly the graph he used - I can understand Andrew’s intention to get readers to subscribe with an email, there’s a bit of give and take (feedback loop+lock in) which helps him as a writer. But I don’t agree that RSS is dying right now… the creator of RSS, Aaron Swartz is dead (or alive through Dave Winer) but that doesn’t mean RSS is dying and using Google Trends is probably not the best way to make a decision.
There’s no point in trying to justify email over RSS, when all you want is people’s email id (hope…