…And I For One Welcome Our RSS Overlords…
Uncle Andrew
I’ve been noticing a fair amount of RSS requests on my blog lately. Happy to see all of you getting your regular updates. I just hope that you’re not swarming to uncle-andrew.net to see the latest corrections of my many and varied typos. 😉
I was reading FridgeMagnet a few weeks ago when made the offhand comment that he doesn’t read anything that isn’t available through RSS any more, just doesn’t have the time. Personally, if I get to the point where I don’t have time to spend fifteen or twenty minutes perusing my favorite Web sites, that will be the moment when I have to decide to either give up the Web or give up working. Not sure I can live without either of ’em.
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November 23rd, 2004 at 5:05 pm
I was really amazed by how big RSS is now. On Action Figure Diary, I set up a mailing list sign-up form before I set up the RSS feed because I didn’t think that many of my friends were using RSS yet. Turns out that the RSS feed was much more popular than the mailing list.
Personally, I prefer cruising my favorite sites to using a feed reader, but I think that part of that is aesthetic for me. I don’t just want to read the content, I want to see the site in whatever good or god-awful form the author presented it.
November 23rd, 2004 at 5:13 pm
That said, I might consider using a feed reader at work if it made my brain-breaks more discreet on the company server.
November 23rd, 2004 at 9:39 pm
That said, I might consider using a feed reader at work if it made my brain-breaks more discreet on the company server.
Doesn’t really make much difference. Your access logs would show you went to http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/wp-rss2.php, which still looks like goofing off to the average manager.