RSS as email… we’re almost there.

One of the great promises of RSS when it first came out was the fact that we now had an opportunity to replace email as a method of communicating with each other, one of the big draws of doing this was to avoid spam and have trusted channels to communicate with each other. If you want to mail me you simply subscribe to my account, I accept you and when I want to send you mail it is delivered to you via an RSS feed. With services like Pownce and Twitter gaining in popularity I think we’re finally getting close to  the RSS as email model of communicating online.