By Ian Hollidae, 2025/10/31

I've been running across a lot of articles related to RSS lately. It makes me wonder about which way the tides of blogging are shifting. Is a return to organic posting really under way? I get the feeling a lot of the noise resides in the more tech-oriented communities.

Personally, I'd like to see a larger segment of the web get back to independent blogging, but as some have pointed out, the issue of discovery, outside the social media format, still hasn't been solved. Simply putting an RSS feed on your site has never been the answer. Feed aggregators were a step forward, but clearly, they couldn't keep up with web indexing. I don't blame people for sticking with social media. A ready made gathering place is hard to ignore. I think if there is a solution, it'll have to be something no one has thought about.

For now, here's some of what I've come across:

• A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape (Lighthouse)
• Have we passed peak social media? (Financial Times)
• In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information (Tom Burkert)

Tags: Blogging