Comments on: The future is in the ability to ignore http://lexandera.com/2009/05/the-future-is-in-the-ability-to-ignore/ A blog about the web, mobile web, semantic web and mobile semantic web. Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:16:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aleksander Kmetec http://lexandera.com/2009/05/the-future-is-in-the-ability-to-ignore/comment-page-1/#comment-1661 Aleksander Kmetec Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:01:16 +0000 http://lexandera.com/?p=362#comment-1661 I still use Google Reader, but only for lesser known blogs that publish quality content in long(ish) intervals. It just doesn't make sense to subscribe to anything popular because those links get (re)twitted and submitted to reddit/hacker news so often, you come across them several times anyway. And for anything high volume it's better to just let other people do the filtering for me. :) I still use Google Reader, but only for lesser known blogs that publish quality content in long(ish) intervals. It just doesn’t make sense to subscribe to anything popular because those links get (re)twitted and submitted to reddit/hacker news so often, you come across them several times anyway. And for anything high volume it’s better to just let other people do the filtering for me. :)

]]> By: Florent V. http://lexandera.com/2009/05/the-future-is-in-the-ability-to-ignore/comment-page-1/#comment-1635 Florent V. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:07:16 +0000 http://lexandera.com/?p=362#comment-1635 I spent a lot of time a year and a half ago searching for a good RSS ”flow“ reader. Something that would let me mark some feeds as important (and then display a unread count), and let all other feeds in pools of “take a look at that if you fancy a read”. The only reader i found that met that description was an experiment by a lone developer, and it was left unmaintained. I finally used Google Reader, only to abandon it. At that time, i started using Twitter. This summer, i finally pulled the plug on Google Reader. I don't know if RSS is dead, but old RSS readers are. One other thing that killed RSS readers for me: the awesomebar in Firefox 3. When i want to check out a webcomic such as Girls With Slingshots, Questionable Content, xkcd or Dinosaur Comics, i type Ctrl+L (focus the address bar), then "gws", "ques", "xk" or "dino", Tab key, Enter. It's quick. RSS reader relieved us of the hassle of checking each site. Except that sometimes checking a site is NOT an hassle, it's a pleasure. And if the browser makes it awfully easy to get to that site, the advantages of RSS readers become thinner. I guess RSS readers are still great for information junkies, journalists or researchers who need to monitor some RSS-enabled sources of information and publications. I spent a lot of time a year and a half ago searching for a good RSS ”flow“ reader. Something that would let me mark some feeds as important (and then display a unread count), and let all other feeds in pools of “take a look at that if you fancy a read”. The only reader i found that met that description was an experiment by a lone developer, and it was left unmaintained. I finally used Google Reader, only to abandon it. At that time, i started using Twitter.

This summer, i finally pulled the plug on Google Reader. I don’t know if RSS is dead, but old RSS readers are.

One other thing that killed RSS readers for me: the awesomebar in Firefox 3. When i want to check out a webcomic such as Girls With Slingshots, Questionable Content, xkcd or Dinosaur Comics, i type Ctrl+L (focus the address bar), then “gws”, “ques”, “xk” or “dino”, Tab key, Enter. It’s quick. RSS reader relieved us of the hassle of checking each site. Except that sometimes checking a site is NOT an hassle, it’s a pleasure. And if the browser makes it awfully easy to get to that site, the advantages of RSS readers become thinner.

I guess RSS readers are still great for information junkies, journalists or researchers who need to monitor some RSS-enabled sources of information and publications.

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