Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:14:57 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] "Magazines have finally killed blogs"
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
To: WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

"RSS as a format and an idea grew directly out of an internet culture
that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet. The creators
of RSS grew up on Usenet, and so did its earliest adopters at the turn
of the century when RSS was at the height of its popularity. Usenet
was a text-based publishing system that allowed people to create
newsgroups, kind of like group blogs or Tumblrs, where people could
swap stories, news, information, pictures, and more. Like blogs, the
topics of these newsgroups ranged from kinky sex and recipes, to
microchip architecture and carpentry. And the way most people read
newsgroups was to subscribe to the ones they liked so that they could
ignore the thousands of newsgroups that were competing for their
attention."

http://io9.com/magazines-have-finally-killed-blogs-but-in-a-way-you-461996928

mjw