Comments on: RSS readers

By: davebriggs (Dave Briggs)

davebriggs (Dave Briggs) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:16:14 +0000

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Dunno if it was writing this [link to post] that caused it, but I'm addicted to Google Reader at the moment.

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By: Julián Rodriguez Orihuela

Julián Rodriguez Orihuela — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:47:34 +0000

What RSS needs is a priority setting.
Some attribute the blogger can set from 0.0 to 1.0 giving it more relevance or less.
Or maybe some google-style weighing of the content… something that lets you see what’s more important, so if you want to read everything, fine, but if you’re in a hurry, you can check the most important stuff.

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:33:15 +0000

I’m with Noel on this one. How many identi.ca and twitter accounts are driven by RSS feeds? Lots. Maybe it’s being replaced as a reader technology, but it’s still very useful for enabling cooperation.

By: Noel

Noel — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:54:01 +0000

Always insightful posts Dave, your comment “you don’t have to read it all” sums it up. Does that then mean that tools and techniques that help “make sense of it all” will be those that don’t replace RSS but actually make the best use of it?

In our http://www.picandmix.org.uk open data mashup project, we would be stuck without RSS (and often are when people send us PDFs with spreadsheets inside them!). Similarly data visualisation often rely on RSS or other feeds. Maybe the techies need to focus on the quality of creating RSS feeds so that the rest of us can use the tools above?

By: Andrew Beeken

Andrew Beeken — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:51:31 +0000

I’m definately with you on this one, Dave. iGoogle is an integral part of both my personal reading habits and also my work. I shudder to think of a time I would sequentially visit websites to trawl through articles when having it delivered to me via the medium of RSS is far more convenient. It is a more succinct and easily digestible way of gathering news from the web and, in my opinion, is in no way comparable to the smorgasboard of potential information overload that is Twitter. They’re two completely different beasts.