David Jackson: My own view: (1) relatively poor usability, and (2) Twitter is a more user-friendly way of following feeds.

billyjoerob: RSS wasn't so real simple. I downloaded 3 or 4 readers until finding one that worked. Too hard to figure out, surfing should be easy.

David Jackson: I had a similar experience. I wonder also whether social recommendations have become more valuable.

James Sands: I have found that I no longer use Twitter, there is too much inefficient information. I have not yet used RSS and was going to use Google...

James Sands: I will check out other RSS readers, any recommendations?

Cliff Wachtel: Can anyone recommend a good substitute? Was useful tool

David Jackson: I personally use an RSS to email service, and then filter all the emails into a gmail folder. Works really well.

James Sands: David, that sounds like a good method, thanks.

illuminea: I stopped using RSS a while ago and depend on crowdsourcing to tell me what to read: industry newsletters, Zite app, facebook, twitter.

Ran Moshe: Thanks David, I'll also give it a shot

James Sands: Some of us don't need to be told what to read, we just need a good distribution platform of information that is adaptable to relevant info.

Ran Moshe: David, which RSS to email service do you use?

David Jackson: http://blogtrottr.com

Ran Moshe: thanks!

Mary Hunt: Google drops things it can't adequately monetize and its adsense for feeds never seemed to really take off.

David Jackson: Mary, not sure the reason was monetization - GOOG has invested in some projects for years without revs. Seems it was more about usage.