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December 07, 2005
Scoble on RSS Backlash
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Robert turns out to be a contrarian (or am I the contrarian?) regarding my beefs with RSS readers:
[from Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger � More from Ireland]
Stowe Boyd puts some RSS backlash out there (he doesn’t like the feed reading experience). I keep hearing this too when I give speeches. But almost always these are people who don’t try to keep up with a large number of sites and just visit randomly. I take a more structured approach to my feed reading and hate reading sites on the Web, for the most part. Although with Digg and Memeorandum I certainly do my share of random poking around too.
One thing, though, is even if you hate the RSS experience, there are benefits for having all that stuff stored up. Desktop search works a lot better than even Google on the Web does. If I remember I read something on a feed a few months ago I can find it instantly by using desktop search, but it often is hard to find on the web-based search engines like Google, MSN, or Yahoo.
It’s interesting that some people actually like seeing a blog’s design. I don’t. It impedes readability. Imagine if the New York Times had a different font, a different color backwash, and a different font size for each author. It’d make reading a newspaper really a poor experience, wouldn’t it? Yet we put up with that on the Web. RSS frees me from that system and makes it a lot easier to read a large amount of information very quickly.
I agree with Robert in part:
- I would like to have a log of things I have read, but I would like that to be a journal of all the places and bits I have visited, stamped by time and tagged, as well. So when I am wandering around -- like right now -- catching up with many peoples' comments on the RSS Readering post, I could be tagging the journal entries. I do that now with my posts with Technorati tags, and some of the places I go with Del.icio.us tags. But Del.icio.us makes me do too much heavy lifting.
- Unlike Robert, I don't find fooling with blog layout that much of a hassle, and appreciate a bit of randomness. The endless pellets of info in RSS readers drive me batty.
- My process of reading stuff is not random, but it is not assembly-line, industrial-strength blog reading like Robert is into. I find that I need to tag, comment, post, and so on, to make sense of the stream. Otherwise, nothing sticks with me.
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1. Gerry on December 9, 2005 03:29 PM writes...
Please elaborate what you mean when you say that del.icio.us makes you do too much of the heavy lifting? Thanks!
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