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Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

IK — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:01:06 -0000

rss snowball is yet to toll and regular visitors of mashable obviously know about rss but thing is poll shows some good results about rss

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

Shawn Dibble — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:18:20 -0000

I use Google Reader all the time. Check it everyday, although, I skim through most of what I have and stop if anything catches my eye.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

Donadio — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:32:48 -0000

I don't really understand this article. With RSS, you can get twitter updates, along with everything else, including photo feeds and video feeds into Miro...Browsing the web isn't convenient if you have over 100 or so sites you'd be interested in checking. And a lot of major organizations, like the UN or let's say many International statistics websites, don't use twitter or social media. It also helps if you have limited bandwidth preventing you from downloading podcasts, which def can happen when you're in other countries. But you can still easily listen to podcasts through a feed reader.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

bscopes — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:45:50 -0000

Ben,

I think that it's clear from your poll that RSS is certainly not dead. But that you and many other users are overloaded trying to keep up with their RSS feeds. I've written a detailed post on the Bscopes blog discussing our approach to supplementing your feed reader with a visual overview of the blogs you are interested in.
I'd be very interested in what you and the readers of Mashable think of this new technology. Does it help you cut through the clutter? You can see the Bscope of the Mashable blog at http://www.bscopes.com/view...

Brad

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

John F Moore — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:16:20 -0000

A quick response to this post on my blog at:

http://johnfmoore.wordpress...

John
http://twitter.com/JohnFMoore

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

JLA — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:48:24 -0000

I use it (Google Reader) slightly less bc of some redundancy via twitter however it's still essential. Twitter is great when I have the time to check out links and articles in real time - and for discovering new bloggers/articles etc through others - but when I don't have the time, I catch up on what I know is relevant using Reader.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

José M. Cané — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:05:57 -0000

Hi, I use Google Reader for blogs and sites I follow on a regular (usually weekly) basis. And use bookmarks for content I tend to read at irregular patterns.
I also usually check the amount of new posts per week a feed has before subscribing. This way I make sure I'm going to be able to read it, if not I just bookmark-it.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

MJones — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:01:22 -0000

I use RSS Reader. Try out http://www.neoows.com.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

William Mougayar — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:03:43 -0000

The results of the poll are very telling. You can't throw the baby (RSS) with the bath water (RSS readers). If RSS readers aren't providing the right user experience, that doesn't make RSS the culprit.
And the talk about Twitter replacing RSS is also another narrow minded view of reality. If there's a new highway (Twitter), that doesn't make roads (RSS) obsolete. RSS (roads) are the on-ramp to such highway, and they are needed.
Furthermore, a lot of the new social media is available via RSS whether it's comments, twitter posts, on Disqus, Backtype, etc. so RSS is the easiest and most universal way to exchange content. What you do with it is another story.
If RSS Readers have failed us, don't blame it on RSS!

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

@memo_alo — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:57:20 -0000

Okay and just to vote and tell them that I use the 2 channels of news networks, and RSS have no way of substituting for podcast rss eg twitter and I learn things that otherwise would not have known, saludos .

Bueno ya vote y solo para contarles, que yo uso las 2 vías de noticias redes sociales, y los rss no tengo forma de sustituir el rss para podcast por ejemplo, y con twitter me entero de cosas que de otro modo no hubiera sabido, saludos.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

Tom — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:30:04 -0000

Well, looks like RSS is still way ahead. It's important to roll with the changes as the Internet evolves, but you have to give things some time before jumping on, there is always something new that gets hyped up (like mahalo and Wikiesearch taking out Google). I do admit, Twitter is looking good.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

joshua motto — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:23:14 -0000

i use google reader DAILY for the most important, well written information that i need. if, and only if i need specific information thats as up to date as i can get wealth on the alternatives you suggest.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

Kevin Rochowski — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:00:47 -0000

I use RSS for "essential" information that I can get through quickly. For content that I need to pick through (such as mashable, due to the large number of posts) I use Twitter - if the content sounds interesting, I click through. Twitter is also my preferred medium for discovering new content that I'm not subscribed to.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

rob — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:40:12 -0000

i use rss all the time. mobile me (mac) keeps my feeds synced between computers and iphone. i found this article with an rss feed!

i think even more useful for anyone publishing content is feedinformer.com ....you give it a feed (s) and it allows you to publish it into any html page (similar to wordpress plugins that are all the rage now) ... i use them all over my website. rgranholm.com

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

arif — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:17:46 -0000

One guy found his way back to run a bulky browser for himself with all the memory hogged websites, and just because Twitter is the only service which has taken our focus away from everyone else, we now feel retiring RSS?

Amazing.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

David Jackmanson — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:50:06 -0000

I think that RSS will be essential for serious consumers of lots of information - anyone from the serious amateur blogger up to those running major news websites in any medium-sized or larger niche.

What will not happen with RSS? It will never become the information-consuming method of choice among casual web users. I'd always make the link to subscribe to the feedburner emails from my websites very obvious indeed - I don't think the casual user will ever bother to make the effort to find out about RSS. It's just not relevant unless you are dealing with a lot of info and need to gather it all in one place.

RSS will remain a niche - a very important one to bloggers, jornalists, etc, but it won't ever become a mass thing, IMO.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

Chris in Montana — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:41:17 -0000

Sorry, Ben, but in plain English, you're talking a load of bollocks. OF COURSE RSS is still useful, and the poll results back that up.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

Caroline Quintanilla — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:20:26 -0000

If you use Google Reader, I can understand why you might stop using RSS. Compared to Viigo on my Blackberry, it's a dinosaur. I too easily had too much information----and I haven't found the way to delete read and uninteresting posts.

Twitter and Facebook are good for finding new blogs and information----but I am looking for a good RSS client on my computer to follow the blogs I want to read regularly. Any suggestions? I will probably look at Firefox add-ins next.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

Elf Sternberg — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:00:47 -0000

Absolutely, all the time. As a political junkie, the list of feeds from various sites organized in a simple, rapid-read, reliable and consistent interface allows me to rip through the morning's news without having to struggle with odd UIs or be subjected to constantly flickering advertising. And that's a real benefit.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

skykid — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:54:36 -0000

I became addicted to RSS about a year . Currently I have 383 subscriptions on Google Reader and most of the time am able to follow them. Yet at the same time I follow I use Twitter and Friend Feed as well. I think that RSS would evolve with time - but by no means would disappear.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

Rob Knight — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:22:17 -0000

Ben, interesting article. It is one of the reasons we set up Blogbite http://www.blogbite.com Having used RSS for what seems like a lifetime and having a love hate relationship with it I and my business partner felt there was a better way to get over the headlines of a blog, that was more entertaining, reached a wider audience and was a benefit to the blind and partially sighted. What is a Blogbite? In a nutshell it's your company's blog presented in a regular (weekly/monthly), professionally recorded, short (1-5min) audio highlights package. Check us out at Nokia Conversations. http://conversations.nokia.com

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

slowblogger — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:12:59 -0000

I think it's apples and oranges. For news and blog posts, Twitter could be a way to receive RSS feeds.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

Spq96 — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:08:09 -0000

Nah, I don't really like to use it.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

Chris Allison — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:02:40 -0000

Depending on your Reader it is social media. Google reader lets you star/share/comment/leave notes...that's just as much social media as Twitter it just doesn't have as large engagement.

Readers have the pleasure of not being time sensitive and being much more filtered. I personally would rather just browse, but since I work in social media and search I think I'm obligated to stay on top of things in a more thorough manner.

Re: Do You Use an RSS Reader?

dave — Sun, 03 May 2009 10:51:00 -0000

I'm one of the people who posts news items to Twitter, and guess where I get them from -- RSS. I use NewsRiver, the aggregator built into the OPML Editor.

The problem is most people use feed readers that don't stream new stuff past your eyes, like Twitter does, so people are left to their own devices to find the new stuff, through hunt-and-peck, and yeah they miss a lot, and are constantly reminded how far behind they are. But that's not how news works -- when was the last time your newspaper told you that you hadn't read 8921 articles from the last 289 issues? You let it go. There's too much news for one person to read it all, and that's as it should be.

Basically, the news readers people use are obsolete. I think they were obsolete since day one, but people didn't believe me when I said it. Now, don't blame RSS because most RSS software is designed wrong.