A tweet.<p>Mostly because this title will garner more debate about The Wire v. The Sopranos than feed readers.<p>Feed readers aren't being killed off because they lack usefulness. They are being killed off because its tougher to drive traffic to your particular ecosystem if people can pre-screen why they want to visit in the first place.<p>Facebook and Twitter continue to lead the charge on locking out their data in the post 'Web 2.0' world and Google is simply following the trend.<p>RSS is useful and pragmatic. RSS is not a currency printing machine for the sites that have to provide feeds ergo it goes.<p>Sad, really.