Stephen Downes

So Google is considering how to bring back RSS in Chrome. My concern is that they're trying to pull a Spotify by taking an open format and locking it down behind subscription paywalls. This article, though, focuses on what Google could do right. The three suggestions are, in essence: make RSS accessible to new users; don't break RSS, but consider extending it; and think about new use cases for RSS, including cases beyond the browser. But really, to bring RSS back to the browser, I think, Google needs to focus on two things: easy subscribe, and easy read.