RSS is the past, present and future! Without doubt, I will proclaim that they are going to last forever until I dunno Web 3.0 which will show a much evolved form of RSS. :p

I subscribe to a lot of blogs where I’m not interested in reading all their posts (there’s too many) – I want to filter based on my interests. Some feeds just have too many items coming in on them and I’d like my feedreader to allow me to be smarter in what I read on these feeds.

These points are all very well taken, but there is a difference.

When “information” (a word I hate, because it’s meaningless without context) becomes too much to evaluate, you start making decisions about which item to read not based on “what”, but “who.” With blogs, there’s a definite “who” — and I rely on the people I like reading to make the “what” decisions for me.

The problem with Pointcast is that there never was a “who”, only a “what” — it’s very difficult for a corporation to have a personal identity, it’s difficult to get a person to trust a company.

But I’ll read your blog no matter “what” you’re talking about, because I know that you’re an interesting woman with something to say.

It’s not really a question of “push” or “pull”, it’s a question of who you can trust with your time.