Mark has some comments about the bandwidth being taken up on his site by people using aggregators to collect his RSS feeds. He also has some insightful commentary about "everything old [being] new".
When you look at that, and then add in this article about a microcontent client the web seems to be a different place, and I don't know if I like it. I mean, I appreciate the niceties of being able to have everyone else's content the way I want it in my own little aggregator and all, but I check out magazines for their smelly, glossy pages, and I appreciate the way a site's design influences the way you feel about the author and the site. I mean, by rights, writing should stand for itself, but that's traditional writing. On the web, links, images, and graphics as well as audio and eventually video all play a part, and I don't see that being included with RSS feeds, or with the microcontent client.
Maybe I missed something, I'm not paying close enough attention or whatever. That happens. I like the web for each individual site, though. I tried ampheta desk and didn't really see the point. I guess I'm just weird.