Comment from Richard
Very well written Adam. My only comment is that the time shifting of RSS does act like a filter for information overload. I subscribe to about 200 RSS feeds from a wide variety of sources but I have a...
View ArticleComment from Michael E. Cohen
In an information economy, information is not a scarce resource; attention is. As the number of information sources multiply, competition for ways to obtain the scarce resource, your attention,...
View ArticleComment from Jim
Google's back-end provided more than just synchronization. It provided better aggregation than anyone before or since. Individual feeds have massively different update rates, feed lengths, article age...
View ArticleComment from Glenn Fleishman
Yes, but I wonder if those problems which once seemed hard are as hard today?
View ArticleComment from James R Grinter
We're going to find out in the next few months.Back when Google Reader dropped its internal sharing features, other services like Feedspot started popping up. But if you try using that today, the...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Totally agreed, Richard. RSS is another one of our attempts to keep the infinite at bay, and it works really well for a lot of people (if not me). What Google and pundits are saying is that, based on...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
I do indeed sometimes feel that I'm being pulled in many different directions by companies yelling "Look at me! Pay attention to me!" But when I talk about the infinite, I'm thinking about it slightly...
View ArticleComment from Tonya Engst
Maybe there is a good kickstarter project here for someone! :-)
View ArticleComment from Scott Howard
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I've always enjoyed reading what you and Tonya have to say and I appreciate your styles as well - I think "The Internet Starter Kit" was the first thing I ever...
View ArticleComment from Dan O'Donnell
Very insightful article. It made me think about the big picture of information gathering as well as how I deal with that task - and what to do about the end of Reader.Buzzfeed asserts that more web...
View ArticleComment from Scott Lopez
There are a lot of solutions popping up around the internet. One excellent replacement I discovered is Tiny Tiny RSS, which is anything but small on features. It requires you hosting it yourself but...
View ArticleComment from Joe Ferguson
I am a news junkie and I visit social media sites daily. RSS for me is a great tool to aggregate jobs. Many job/employment sites offer RSS Feeds. I am sure that other people have found that besides RSS...
View ArticleComment from xandra
My thoughts precisely. I believe they will gradually move all of their traditional services over to Google+ features.
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
I'll be curious if Google integrates RSS more into Google+, or if they really are trying to move away from it. Personally, I used to push certain RSS feeds into Twitter before the publications involved...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Just looked into this BuzzFeed article a bit more, and I think it's comparing apples and oranges. There's no question that an RSS service that accesses every article will generate vastly more traffic...
View ArticleComment from Laurence Chen
I like the real ocean for a nice respite from the ocean of brain candy that is online. Turns out one needs self-control either way (back to work now)!
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