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dumble

Why you (yes, you) should use RSS feeds

Jan 27, 2009 17:33

If you read things on the internet, you should be using RSS feeds. Given that you're currently reading my livejournal, I think it's safe to say that you read things on the internet. Therefore you (yes, you) should be using RSS feeds ( Read more... )

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dumble January 27 2009, 18:46:13 UTC

Yay! I'm glad to know it's not just me.

barawulf January 27 2009, 22:42:31 UTC

I re-re-second this.

RSS changed the internet for me back in '05 when I started using it. *Immediately* your throughput increases; what took me 20 minutes each morning to check my favorite sites became 3 minutes. Sadly I'm back to at least 20 minutes, but I am now up to ~100 subscriptions and ~600 updates a day that go through my brain.

I have become a Google Reader denizen, for the sole reason that it's entirely cross-platform and cross-computer. I have enough machines I want to check the latest news on that keeping what I have read and what I haven't synced is nigh impossible, but with Google Reader as my one reader, that's not an issue. Plus it's well-built and it uses vim keyboard shortcuts like I expect :)

Vienna is good for OS X. NetNewsWire has a following. Sage is pretty good in general.

--Barak

dumble January 28 2009, 11:50:10 UTC

RSS changed the internet for me back in '05 when I started using it.

Heh, you make me feel behind the times... I didn't start until last year.

barawulf January 28 2009, 18:14:26 UTC

Heh. I'm an early adopter. :P

You also know that Aaron Swartz, who hunted with Codex in '07, is coauthor on the RSS 1.0 spec?

http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec

--Barak

dumble January 28 2009, 18:25:04 UTC

Whoa! No! I had no idea, in fact. Geez, Codex is awesome! (Is Aaron not still hunting with us, though?)