Comments on: I Am Keeping My RSS Reader

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By: robdiana

robdiana — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:37:40 +0000

Noelle,

FriendFeed is an interesting site. The UI is very minimalistic, but the river of information can be intimidating. I am not sure if they plan on really changing much of the core interface at this time. I have found it to be worth investing time into though.

By: robdiana

robdiana — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:35:43 +0000

Graham,

I come from the perspective that email is for contact only. If I plan no reading news or various blogs, I do not want that cluttering my email. So, we will have to agree to disagree

By: Noelle

Noelle — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:04:57 +0000

I don’t think twitter will ever replace my RSS reader! (Or anything else, for that matter.) I don’t use friendfeed, (I’m on there, I just don’t like the interface too much.) So, I’m sticking with Google reader for now, (and probably for the long-term.)

By: Graham Smith

Graham Smith — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:02:52 +0000

Im simply addicted to finding and receiving new news, but unlike many people, I am a huge fan of Email RSS updates.

I dont use any RSS reader, I have tried, but they just dont work for me. Emails are more immediate for me and allow me to quickly scan and act of new news.

Twitter has also, as you said, eliminated the need, at least for me, for a RSS reader, as I also rely on others to tweet new news as it happens.

Between us all, we seem to cover most of the cool interesting stuff. Taking RSS readers out of the equation makes more sense to me, never get rid of email, so having your new news delivered in the same place just makes sense.

graham

By: smilbandit

smilbandit — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:29:14 +0000

@robdiana give this a try. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43523 it’s a greasemonkey script I built that puts some search queries into the nav of google reader. I was surprised at how limited the search is in google reader. I don’t use google reader but thought it was a fun diversion.

By: robdiana

robdiana — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:29:04 +0000

dcfemella,

Michael Fidler brings up an interesting application. Microplaza or something like it, that farms links from services like Twitter could eventually replace RSS readers. I think it is more likely that an aggregator like FriendFeed would replace the reader as list/group functions can be very powerful.