Category Archives: RSS

Churning and Burning

February 6, 2006 – 1:48 pm

We need new paradigms for following what’s happening in the blogosphere. According to Dave Sifry, the number of weblogs tracked by Technorati has doubled approximately every five months over the last 36 months.
I’m loving Amy Bellinger’s Churning urns of burning funk, where she proposes a superdynamic form of reading list: “specialized lists that change their […]

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Overloaded by Information on Information Overload

January 3, 2006 – 4:16 pm

Switching to Bloglines from basic browsing boosted my blog reading efficiency by at least an order of magnitude. But I need another efficiency boost because the number of feeds I track has outstripped my puny brain’s ability to deal with them. Is the problem that RSS sucks? No, I don’t think so. It’s that Bloglines […]

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Are Newsreaders Web 1.0?

December 12, 2005 – 11:21 am

Dion Hinchcliffe’s Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 list provides a great intro to the Web 2.0 concept. As a fashionably late arrival to the Web 2.0 party, I understand the landscape in general; Hinchcliffe’s list and the others that will surely follow give me the particulars.
I was disappointed that newsreader apps don’t make it […]

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What I Want in an RSS Newsreader

December 11, 2005 – 12:11 pm

If you’re a man, I am more representative of the newsreader market than you are. According to a recent JupiterResearch report on RSS readers, 55% of those who use them are women while 45% are men. Yes, more women than men use newsreaders, at least according to that research. Why might that be? I don’t […]

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Bloglines Fails to Show New Posts

December 11, 2005 – 11:38 am

How do I know? Because I’m expecting a new article from 24 Ways each morning and I haven’t been seeing them on Bloglines for the past few days. I’m not the only one having problems (via CrunchNotes):
Bloglines seems to be in a general state of decline. Other RSS readers (Rojo, Yahoo, Attensa, BlogBridge, tons more) […]

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