Continuing on our obsession with RSS today, comment 87 from James on my
RSS Readers: Sound Off! post got me thinking. If anyone out there
does not use RSS, why not? What don't you like about RSS, or what makes you not want to use RSS? Living in a very saturated tech world myself and being an IT administrator, I use RSS as a part of daily life, and don't really understand why you wouldn't use it (especially in my job), but what do you think? If you don't use it, why not? I have always wondered, and know that I am not going to get all over your case about it either, I am just curious. Since I am not a cat, I figure it is safe to wonder. I've heard that the majority of our readers do not use RSS, and I realize that I am a geek, not a normal person (kinda wish I was normal sometimes), so here's your chance to enlighten the binary brain of a techie. Consider this a "10 things I hate about you" aimed at RSS.
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Subscribe to commentsBud LandryJul 25th 2006 1:45PM
I thought RSS might 'speed' browsing by eliminating click-throughs, but really, in most all cases, all it does is add yet another layer and I end up having to click through several times to get to the meat of the story, rather than having the entire story collected and anthologized for more concise consumption.
It is more of an index or table of contents, than a collection.
Pedro Vilas BoasJul 30th 2006 7:01PM
Hi all, I'm brazillian and it's my first comment on this site. Sorry for my weak english. Please, try to get it =)
Ryan, i'll scape from your target "You don't use RSS? Why not?" because I use.
So.. It's impossible to read all the sites I like to read. And not only read de INDEX page, cause Lifehacker and Digg together have more than a two or three tousands posts per day.
You know.. I like being up-to-date with the news, the curious situations, ... AND I don't have only Lifehacker and Digg to read.
My little (YES! it's not big comparing w/ yours) feedreader has Techcrounch, Forever Geek, Yahoo! news Tech, kottke, Webinsider (BR), fabio seixas (BR), Google Blogscoped, problogger, download squad (oh! here it is), Google Operation System, Random good stuff, Google UnderGround (BR), Metblogging from Rio de janeiro, IDG NOW (BR) and Tableless (BR).
You see.. it's a loooot of articles, news, post per day ... and I can't read all these news simply accessing one by one. Figure out how much time i'll spend to see the news.
Without more than 50% of the Diggs doesn't interesting for me. And I the RSS reader shows the title and I "oh... it's not for me.." or... "Mac news? I don't have a Mac"...
With the RSS.. I can only read the titles and consider what is right/good for me... you see?!
=)
So, it's my first comment here and I'm glad to contribute w/ the site!
cya!
rocjrSep 10th 2006 8:47AM
Used RSS back in late 90's (on the bleeding edge, at least in my OEM automotive part supplier and related industry).
A majic, effortless way to stay abreast of my customers (N.American & European Automakers) public planning, product and program announcements, hopefully ahead of competitors but especially of my principals (clients). The time spent browsing industry pubs and newsprint was time consuming and it was easy to miss things. Whether or not of any ultimate use or value "news" picked up by our supplier clients before our rep firm learned of it was considered cause to squeeze for more "attention" and less compensation.
Setting up for targeted news seemed easy enough when it was all new. Now so many features and "convienent integrations" and endless systems to sort through overtax my limited tech ability.
I find this to be the case with so many brilliant , timesaving and productivity enhancing programs and services related to Web 2.0. I imagine I'm not alone in frustration with inability to take advantage of advances in a medium with more change and choice than I can handle.
Is there opportunity in this possibly ubiquitious situation for creating a profitable website
service addressing this difficulty ? A "free" site friendly to nontechnical consumers providing highlights and "best ofs" where the monitization model for the site is indirect as opposed to pay for consultation or single entity solution providers? If you follow my thinking you may either contact me rickoconnell@comcast.net or a good therapist, your choice