Pluck RSS shutting down...not the end of consumer RSS readers

Just found this article via techmeme. Pluck is giving up on its RSS reader, and Richard says that this is an indication of the death of consumer RSS readers, but I think he’s wrong.

As I mentioned in a post just a few days ago, I think that the real solution to RSS is not “enterprise RSS readers,” but Calacanis’ idea to bring out an RSS reader that draws ad revenue and shares it with the content providers.

If you have both content providers and a reader working together with a legitimate and shared source of income, a lot will get done, and RSS will come a lot closer to hitting the mainstream.