Comment by parineum

I thought I was more clear than I was being about rss in the context of the conversation about text based news.

How many people consuming text via rss the same way people consume audio via podcasts?

We're talking about text here. We all know how this sentence ends, "You should start a ..." and it isn't rss feed. Everyone used to have a blog and nobody really cared. Now everyone has a podcast and (more) people do. People don't know what an rss feed is.