I can understand that there are some people who are simply too busy to engage in a deep and meaningless relationship with Google or Technorati, and who prefer their information shoveled at them in great spadesful rather than spending the time themselves to sift through what they really want. In this attention economy, after all, the way to get around information overload is to make it rush at you rather than going after it when you want it.
But to me, RSS is like Purity Chicken a la King - predigested, all the taste and texture removed. While the nutritional value might remain, who cares if the joy of eating it is removed, and a mushroom is indistinguishable from a noodle?
Context matters. Presentation matters. How boring life would be if we only ever had meat without the salads, sex without the seduction, the final act without the overture?