I had no idea how dependent I had gotten to be on the Really Simple BEER Syndication or RSBS service from the good people over at www.beerinator.com. Until it went away. I haven't emailed Jonathan Surratt to ask why it is no longer accessible as I can imagine it is the time and the cost and life and all that. I checked the emails and it looks like I was on RSBS for over four years, back to at least February 2006 when I see he and I chatted a bit about his beermapping.com project. I wonder how many feeds were on it when mine was added? In August 2006, it still hadn't hit 100 feeds.
A few days ago Stan then I wrote about whether anyone is reading beer blogs. The end of Andy Crouch's comment at Stan's may turn out to be be more than a little telling:
P.S. Sorry I’m a little late to the party. Since RSBS has gone down, I frankly haven’t read a beer blog until today. Perhaps that says something.
Sure it could pop back up tomorrow but I am with Andy. Since RSBS has gone down, I haven’t been as sure of what is being said out there. Bit of an end to an era or maybe even the era of home brewed beer blogs.