The death of newspaper is being hastened by RSS, "Really Simple Syndication". It's a very popular way to search the internet for interesting websites and get an automatic feed of all of the new stories/topics that you want to read about. It prioritizes the immense and, quite frankly, overwhelming amount of information and retrieves it for you. Instead of scouring websites for endless, (sometimes boring) hours, all topics you identify are instantly fed to you. Most news sites, and blogs syndicate their content/information as an RSS feed. The icons used are RSS (like the orange box you see on this entry) or XML. You can subscribe to many RSS feeds and it will be mashed up for you in one feed.

None of us wants to wait all day to read a newspaper or wait for a monthly magazine to read about news. As we get busier (and have less time) and become increasingly impatient, RSS feeds will be used more on the internet. It continues to help newspapers become even more obsolete. The decline of print has to do with consumers wanting speed, control over content, interactivity and news on demand (RSS) delivered right to their doorstep (o.k., maybe laptop). So, daily news is no longer current and news (fed through RSS) has become faster and smarter, just like humans.