I've seen "The Dispatcher" advertised inside my Android Kindle reader, and been tempted. I think you might have tipped me over. Sounds like another gonzo story!
RSS has been pronounced dead for a while, but I'm not convinced. It's true that technically it's kind of an abomination, having metastasized early into many not-quite-compatible dialects. And it's XML, whose time has probably passed. But that need for individuals web sites to be able to publish feeds, on their own, without Google's mediation, remains. RSS came out of that "Web 2.0" obsession with syndication, and wiring up web sites with data feeds. And that remains a good idea, even if it doesn't fit with Google's centralized business model. This might be a good time to revive the idea of independent site-centric feeds.
Science Fiction » in reply to btw
Scalzi, rss, etc.