By killing Google Reader they essentially killed RSS. Yes, I know there are other clients some of us still use, but Google's was the biggest and most popular.
I don't think I agree with this characterization. If you consider the open standard to be indistinguishable from the proprietary client, I'd argue it was already dead before the client got killed off.
RSS still exists though? Do you mean Google Reader?
By killing Google Reader they essentially killed RSS. Yes, I know there are other clients some of us still use, but Google's was the biggest and most popular.
I don't think I agree with this characterization. If you consider the open standard to be indistinguishable from the proprietary client, I'd argue it was already dead before the client got killed off.
Yes, yes, and yes.
Let's revive RSS.
It's still good, even if it's been on the floor beyond the "five second rule".