Stephen Downes

This statement could be taken right out of my own playbook. "Are RSS Feeds Still Relevant?" asks Helen Blunden. "To many people, I'm may be a bit of an old fashioned kook because I still use them religiously but the truth is, I wouldn't be finding great content and sharing it to you if I was just relying on my social networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn to serve this content up to me." Same here. True, I have other sources - newsletters, web searches, contacts, and yes, social media. But RSS is at the heart of my newsletter.