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By: Eguneko laburpena — Zeruak eta urak

Eguneko laburpena — Zeruak eta urak — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:43:43 +0000

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By: greyscalegorilla/blog » Trevor Writes: RSS IS NOT DEAD

greyscalegorilla/blog » Trevor Writes: RSS IS NOT DEAD — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:21:46 +0000

[...] Trevor’s solution and response to tuesday’s Is RSS Dead? by Jason Fried and the subsequent commenter fallout in favor of RSS. Feedburner Tells me I have quite a few RSS readers, but im never sure of its accuracy. How many of you are subscribing to the RSS feed? Drop me a comment and let me know if you are an RSS subscriber and your thoughts on how RSS is useful to you. Oh yea, and if your not a subscriber, Now is the time:) Posted @ 12:21 PM November 13, 2008 Bookmark on del.icio.us | Permalink « House Letters & Ligatures Opening Photos [...]

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:06:17 +0000

I use NetNewsWire as my RSS reader, but I don't actually do much reading in it. I usually open things I want to read in Safari instead. If I don't have time for something that looks interesting, I'll throw it in Instapaper and read it later. If I find something valuable or interesting, I'll usually bookmark it in Delicious.

By: Josh Atkins

Josh Atkins — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:44:34 +0000

Some great points in this post, but I've still got a few issues:

a) RSS is annoyingly successful in separating presentation from content (I mean that in an XML v. CSS way, not an (X)HTML v. CSS way – I'm all for web standards). I may well be wrong, but I wouldn't want to miss out on the awesome variety of web site designs out there. Isn't that what diversity's about? As they always tell us, "it would be horrible if we were all the same," which is as true on the Web as it is in real life.

b) Please give me a link to a decent feed reader. Google Reader is ugly, shows duplicate posts from A List Apart's feed (RSS 2.0), screws up on entities (i.e. foreign characters, and symbols), and does a whole other load of (I'll be polite:)stuff I don't like.

Just my 2 cents; again, great post.

By: pimpmaster

pimpmaster — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:03:40 +0000

Hear, hear!

I find RSS tremendously useful for staying on top of this fast-paced industry.

For me blogs like yours, RubyInside, Rubyflow, Railsenvy and Railscasts are MUST HAVE subscriptions for anyone serious about Ruby development.

People who whine about feeds just don't make good subscription choices. If it aint useful and sucks your time away, then just UNsubscribe, no?

As a sidenote, the only non-work related feed I'm tuned into is LOLCATS – As far as I'm concerned, if you don't have time to chuckle at funny animals, then your priorities are all screwed up!