RSS: Make it go away

Pito Salas wrote in response to my request for input on the RSS Winterfest panel I'm doing with Robert Scoble tomorrow. The subject of his e-mail caught my eye: "I want RSS to disappear." (Me, too.)

Pito expands on his subject line in a weblog posting:

Speaking strictly as a user, what I care about are RSS applications. I care about reading, scanning, writing, absorbing, learning from, contributing, and sharing. So what I want from RSS is to disappear into the plumbing, and in every way possible enable and encourage great applications to be designed and built.

I completely agree. Discussion of RSS in isolation is boring, boring, boring, though I certainly recognize (and already experience) the massive potential of RSS within applications. In any case, look for more discussion of those applications in the RSS Winterfest discussion tomorrow. Hope to see you there.