We have another TechCrunch fail on our hands, one for the fail blog perhaps. Their wide claims have had me slamming my head against the desk for months now. A lot of their “articles”, or fallacies, tend to be aimed to the web 2.0 fools that are frothing at the mouth for the next web trend so they can pop their collars to their friends at the next local twitter meet up at their local Starbucks. You often will see posts titled like Linux to kill Microsoft, Bill Gates time is over, Twitter is the new internet and the ramble of absolute titled articles ejaculated from this website. The titles of the articles work much like religion, they are preached as facts! When in fact Santa Claus is no more real than what they claim.

I’m writing this post right now because ironically i stumbled upon a gem of a preaching from the TechCrunch fail team today in my Google reader. They were talking about how RSS is dead. Yes. Dead. Their title was “Rest in Peace, RSS“. Funny how i found that article via their RSS feed, if it was dead. They claim that Twitter is the Sydnicated source of information, like a brown Gucci handbag, RSS is so last season.

It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it’s not worth swimming in if you get my drift.

But you see, TechCrunch, being all hip and savvy, have forgotten one thing; unlike their articles and the 140 char limit on twitter messages, not everyone on the internet writes content that isn’t as regular, as casual, or incomplete as what the people write on social networking sites. No matter what technology or medium you syndicate content, the goal is to capture and deliver the content in any means that will most effectively convey its contents. RSS is amazingly effective at doing this. Its platform independent and can be customised easily, both client and server side. I do not see how any other syndication technology would differ in the raw form of RSS.

However if TechCrunch truly believes that RSS is, in fact, dead, then please, everyone, if you are subscribed to TechCrunch make sure you get rid of this dying technology and unsubscribe to the TechCrunch feed. If you would prefer to pick up a lot more static in your information syndication, then go follow keywords on Twitter, or go follow people on Twitter who may more often than not be less qualified in their content than the information found on your former subscribed blogs.

For sure Twitter and other “new media” (takes a bath after writing such a wanky term) may have interesting content, but its all about scope. If you want to share what you had for lunch, write it on Twitter, if you want to write an article about how Microsoft’s new pricing plan reminds you about the 1940’s with typewriter sales being controlled by whatever, then set up a website or a blog. Its all about choosing the correct medium for publicising your information, RSS does this extremely well. RSS Lives, so shut up.