I couldn’t help myself – I had to talk about Michael Jackson’s death – shame on me! The most talked about topic on the Internet is going to help me talk about something that has been rattling around my mind for a few weeks,  and it’s more that cutting someone’s death up by all the media.

There is no doubt about it, this tragic death has surprised everyone, and it is going to mark a change in journalism history. This news has been the final battle in which social networking has defeated traditional media. The news of Jackson’s death was on social networks such as Twitter or Facebook before the traditional media even talked about it. His entry on Wikipedia was updated a couple of hours after his death. You Tube cut off most famous Jackson videos and noone was allowed to embed them because of the high trafic that the news had prompted. With this matter you don’t have to be very clever to understand that  the Digital age has arrived and will not to go away; it has changed the way people access information.

This last though lead me to my headline, because the immediate response of social networks, especially Twitter, could make us say good bye to our RSS readers. If we bear in mind that nearly all media already have their own username on the microblogging network maybe soon we’ll witness the change of RSS by people we follow on Twitter.