That's the short answer. Winer has more to say about it:
<a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/05/aReallyGoodAnalogy.html" rel="nofollow">http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/05/aReallyGoodAnalogy.h...</a><p>Summary: RSS is alive, most UI's miss the point of the format but people are continuing to build new things with it.
Considering that I got to this page from an RSS feed, no, I would say it's not. I'm not the only one I know that has a list of RSS feeds that they read daily.<p>And if they didn't exist, I'd be forced to write something to create them. I don't have time to check dozens of sites every day to see if they have new content.
That page lacks an RSS feed. So I made one.<p><a href="http://page2rss.com/rss/81beb35369eebedecba9707d2b51e920" rel="nofollow">http://page2rss.com/rss/81beb35369eebedecba9707d2b51e920</a>
When all of you are done fighting, go take a look at <a href="http://lazyreadr.com" rel="nofollow">http://lazyreadr.com</a> ; I'm betting the figurative farm on it