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Real Simple Syndication, or RSS. RSS feeds are a popular way to consume blogs, news, and information in general. By subscribing to RSS feeds in a program like Google Reader (Google Reader reviews), you can have Mashable (Mashable reviews), the New York Times, and lolcats sent to one place.

But is RSS the best way to read news and blogs? An article in Slate Magazine this week piqued our interest. In the piece, Farhad Manjoo discusses how he gave up Google Reader for consuming news and hasn’t regretted it; reading news became a boring chore for him, just like reading email, and browsing the web was a more enjoyable way to discover news.

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With the rise of social media technologies that provide alternatives to RSS (i.e. Twitter(Twitter reviews)), we have to wonder: what is the future of RSS? Is social media a better alternative?

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For a while, there were two primary ways to read news: visiting different blogs and websites or having articles syndicated to your news reader. For many people, RSS is still the simplest way to consume information. However, the rise of social media alternatives has provided new tools for finding and discovering articles.

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