I concur with the post. It's becoming a common enough practice (at least among the blogs I read) that you could almost call it a new standard, but it throws me off every. single. time. Especially when I'm clicking from RSS, which I do often.

RSS has always had a niche userbase, and Kevinjohn is right that Twitter is replacing it for the mainstream. However, I don't understand why anyone would remove an RSS feed. It's not hard to maintain and provides myriad possibilities for syndication and automation. But to each their own. I read exclusively through RSS, so no feed, no read.