re: Why RSS?

Bora Zivkovic: When I went and checked out the latest Blog Reader Survey responses , one thing that caught my eye is how few people use RSS (and presumably other feeds) to check on blogs. And I think that is wonderful. People have their bookmarks and blogrolls and they surf and browse and go from one blog to the next though the link to another and yet another blog "by hand" and who knows where they'll end up. That is how I do it and I love it. If you check the updates on your aggregator of choice, all you get are the same opinions by the same people you liked three years ago.

Bora: that's crazy. I would never have read your blog entry if not for my newsreader and your Atom newsfeed. There is simply no way that I can follow the blogs I want to follow without a newsreader. I still surf around occasionally, but mostly just to find interesting new newsfeeds (like yours).

Dave Johnson in Blogging 05:17AM Mar 12, 2005 Comments [1]
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[Trackback] Dave Johnson has a post replying to a post by Bora Zivkovic on a survey that says most blog readers don't read blogs via RSS/Atom. Bora suggests that's good, Dave thinks it's crazy. I fall on the side of crazy, but not that the visitors are crazy bu...

Posted by Ian Landsman's Weblog on March 12, 2005 at 02:04 PM EST #

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