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Internet is dead, web with interface galore reigns supreme with multitude of interfaces all incomprehensible to single point of use of programs. Google news reader was killed, after google bought dejanews turned it into rarely visited place. having a low cost application that can talks over protocols promoted democracy among client selection and democracy of choice that you don't have to learn new as you move between infromation spaces. Web is a great expression medium but a terrible information aggregator and information consumtion source. So it has gotten quite a bit worse since Cliff wrote the article.