I don’t think RSS will die in a hurry. It’s still the best thing for consolidated updates of web site content, if you don’t want your email inbox filled up by digest emails. Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, etc won’t ever replace that.

A few of the headlines catch my eye when I’m browsing Twitter updates, but when I’m on Bloglines, I read in much richer detail and really keep up with the news that I want to read. It’s less pressurized to have all my feeds in one place and in full text. On Twitter, I tend to be rapid-fire click-happy, missing the big, important things in favor of triviality. As far as serious, academic content, most academics that I follow on Twitter simply use the services to link to their latest blog post or article of interest. All that does is add another click to get to what is already being sent to Bloglines in RSS. Information is much easier to store and keep track of on Bloglines. If I miss a day, I can generally catch up. If I miss a week (roundabout 2000 posts/day), it gets sticky, but I can still manage it from the cohesive interface of Bloglines. With Twitter, that’s an impossibility. Not only is it way too timely in a sort of silly way, but the Twitter site lags so badly that I can’t even look at back entries without going insane.

I also have some RSS feeds syndicated directly to my browser (Firefox) and Google reader, Bloglines is just my main index. Twitter will never replace my live feeds on my bookmark bar in Firefox!