I had no idea how dependent I had gotten to be on the Really Simple BEER Syndication or RSBS service from the good people over at www.beerinator.com. Until it went away. I haven't emailed Jonathan Surratt to ask why it is no longer accessible as I can imagine it is the time and the cost and life and all that. I checked the emails and it looks like I was on RSBS for over four years, back to at least February 2006 when I see he and I chatted a bit about his beermapping.com project. I wonder how many feeds were on it when mine was added? In August 2006, it still hadn't hit 100 feeds.
A few days ago Stan then I wrote about whether anyone is reading beer blogs. The end of Andy Crouch's comment at Stan's may turn out to be be more than a little telling:
P.S. Sorry I’m a little late to the party. Since RSBS has gone down, I frankly haven’t read a beer blog until today. Perhaps that says something.
Sure it could pop back up tomorrow but I am with Andy. Since RSBS has gone down, I haven’t been as sure of what is being said out there. Bit of an end to an era or maybe even the era of home brewed beer blogs.
Comments
Paul Ruschmann - March 26, 2010 3:17 PM
Your blog post is good news and bad news. The good news is that my computer isn't on the fritz again. The bad news is that it's going to take a lot more work to dig up the latest happenings in the beer world, and that's going to cut into beer drinking time.
Alan - March 26, 2010 4:02 PM
However did you find this post I wonder?
If there was any money in beer blogging, Jon should have been charging to list on his site.
Al - April 16, 2010 9:26 AM
Somebody's trying to come up with something similar: beerRSS.com. It doesn't seem to be a reaction to the "death" of RSBS, but it might have potential.
Alan - May 26, 2010 9:00 PM
Martyn notes the next step in the evolution of RSS beer blog feeds: All about Beer from Sweden.
dave - March 19, 2013 5:27 PM
that beerRSS.com leads to a hacked site. crazy stuff.