Comments on: Stop using your RSS reader

By: Ligações do dia » Re-Formar - Blogando sobre e, m, b ou qualquer outra forma de "Learning"

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:45:32 +0000

[...] Stop using your RSS reader [...]

By: abc

abc — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:20:59 +0000

The problem is not RSS. The problem is signing up to too many RSS feeds and not realising that you don’t *have to* read everything.
I find it quite ridiculous when some people mention Twitter as a much better alternative. I’m sorry, but Twitter has all the problems that RSS has (let me know how you do following 300 people), plus it has the inconvenience of short messages and links in the messages (in RSS you also just read the title, and then you click to see the whole message).

You mention hackernews, but unless you visit it everyday, you would probably subscribe to its RSS feed. Some might choose to “follow” it on twitter (if there is an account for the messages there..which I don’t know), which is just the same.

I get as much crap, if not more, from twitter than from RSS, specially because people think they need to put messages more often than in RSS. However, I follow just a few people, compared to the hundreds of feeds I have in my RSS reader.

By: James Hardison

James Hardison — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:54:38 +0000

What does a beginner do?

By: Joshua Kaufman

Joshua Kaufman — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:47:15 +0000

I just wanted to pop back here to say thanks for encouraging me to jump ship. The only RSS feeds that I read now are activity feeds: changes on our company wiki, friend activity on Upcoming, link to my blog and other important things I manage.

I used to read ~25 – 30 blogs on average every day, but you made me realize that I wasn’t getting much value out of them at all. Compare this to Twitter, where I get bits from the blogs I use to read, friend updates and conversation, which is incredibly more valuable. I think I’m saving about 30 minutes to an hour every day because of this change, and in these times, that’s a lot.

Thanks, and keep on inspiring!

By: Helloform » Beyond RSS, an opportunity

Helloform » Beyond RSS, an opportunity — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:38:04 +0000

[...] the original post where I reasoned why you should stop using an RSS reader, you should probably do so now before jumping to my [...]

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Ligações do dia : Re-Formar — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:53:58 +0000

[...] Stop using your RSS reader [...]

By: mikepk » Blog Archive » RSS Bankrupt? We’re in a new world

mikepk » Blog Archive » RSS Bankrupt? We’re in a new world — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:01:18 +0000

[...] Some people say, suck it up, new media requires sweat, work, tears, gnashing of teeth to stay on top. Other people say don’t use a feed reader at all. [...]

By: shawn mccollum

shawn mccollum — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:19:26 +0000

BTW, I built myself a feed reader that does the above but i’m not selling it, but thought i’d mention it in full disclosure.

By: shawn mccollum

shawn mccollum — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:17:25 +0000

The main problem is that RSS readers haven’t added any significant mutations in the base premise since the early days of there use. First we had a list of X number of blogs, then that got to be to big and so we got folders to put similar feeds in. That’s the extent of how you can organize your consumption of rss. What’s needed is for rss readers to mutate and provide different ways of consuming RSS that isn’t based on feeds. I’d like to be able to search my feeds in google reader and provide myself a folder called Buzz that has posts matching the keywords: layoff, merger, rumor, acquisition, deadpool and launch. I used newsgators search for awhile but it searches everything in it’s db and not just your stuff, so i would get alot of hits from IMHO non-authoritative sources. It would also be nice to have some auto cleanup tools that could be set per feed. Like Only keep 3 days worth of engadget but 7 days worth of techcrunch, so if I didn’t get to it it’s just gone.

By: Bruno Figueiredo

Bruno Figueiredo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:41:52 +0000

@botchaglupe: that’s my setup as well. I filtered it out in “Daily”, “Weekly”, “Evaluating” and “Almost Dead” (blogs that didn’t post for the last 3 months) folders.