Comments on: RSS Awareness Day

By: Sewdelish

Sewdelish — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:10:40 +0000

Thanks for this post. I am still learning myself about RSS. I set it up on my blog a few weeks ago without fully understanding it at the time. Now that I have subscribed to a few blogs myself, I now understand a little more. Your post has helped, so I will revise my blog settings for subscribing. Thanks again

Sewdelish

By: jeanie

jeanie — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:56:15 +0000

I subscribe to way too many blogs, I read way to many - the only way to do it is through RSS (I use Bloglines) - although I too click through to comment.

So g’day!

By: Gnometree

Gnometree — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:52:55 +0000

I guess I’m new enough to this stuff to not really know. My blog only has an email subscribe thingy with feedburner. The only thing I don’t like about the email notification is that I like seeing my numbers in the blog stats go up and this doesn’t happen unless someone visits my blog

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:04 +0000

ARGGGGG I meant lose not loose!!

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:58:05 +0000

I couldn’t live without my Sage RSS plugin for Firefox so much so I avoided upgrading to the much better version (in my opinion) FF3 after discovering that it wouldn’t work. Fortunately they updated the plugin to now work with Beta 3.5 so I’ve upgraded again.

I’m happy of course to say that lightning online is on my list, I use the RSS reader to show me when everyone has updated to save me time (of course I love it when I see a full list of updated blogs it just takes me a while to get through them all).

Without it I would just loose track of everyone!

By: Jasmine Shanea

Jasmine Shanea — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:33:40 +0000

I agree with Lauren that partial feeds can be quite irritating cos its breaks the flow of reading. Once I’m in Google Reader, I feel a ton of inertia just to click on the ‘read more’ link to get to the page. I would very much prefer to subscribe to RSS feeds with full feeds. That’s the whole purpose of RSS right? To allow us to read several blogs from the same place. RSS is important and very useful for busy people like all of us. But in the end I still come by through the actual URL of the blog cos of Entrecard!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:25:55 +0000

I live in Google Reader, lol. I’m fairly unlikely to comment anyway but at least I’m reading the post which is not something I’d even be doing if I had to check all these blogs. I’m probably reading about 100-120 posts per day. I really need to thin down my subscriptions though, quite a few sites just copy from their rounds so I get the same content three or four times.

And partial feeds are the devil.

By: Kez

Kez — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:11:02 +0000

I *love* using a feedreader - It’s be totally lost without it! I subscribe to about 100 blogs (yeah probably a bit obsessive lol), and read on average 30 posts / day. There is no way I could do that without a feed reader!!

I use Google Reader which works well for me.

I really don’t like partial feeds and it has to be a special blog for me to keep it, and the first couple of lines of the post have to interest me to click through and read the rest. A feedreader doesn’t stop me clicking through to comment though!