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The Death Throws Of Feed Subscriptions

Started by sbspalding · 1 year ago

There was a point when raw RSS was all we had. Not only was it the one and only way for us to track the authors that we liked, but it was also the premiere method of giving your “vote” to a publication. Subscribing to a blog’s feed was a little pat on the back, [...]




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  • KnightKnetwork

    1 year ago

    RSS is just another tool in the toolbox, it's not going anywhere. I use my RSS subscriptions for blogs I don't want to miss a post on, the rest go to friendfeed or some other tracking service. RSS isn't a mainstream technology but it's still a useful one and with services like Toluu pumping new life into it I think we'll see continued (if slow) growth instead of a death spiral. I think it's such a useful tool i joined the RSS Day movement this year and started http://RSSDay.info to promote it.
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  • Jolin

    1 year ago

    The internet makes the market much more narrow and duplicate contents.
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  • Kristin

    1 year ago

    I like the idea of "human mediated news."
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  • robzand

    1 year ago

    i challenge the notion the RSS is of decreased importance. RSS is content distribution. friendfeed is primarily content redistribution. the latter is predicated on the former. without RSS your friendfeed will diminish
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  • sbspalding

    1 year ago

    Which is what I pointed out. The technology is thriving (RSS as a platform). What I am calling into question is whether people are using RSS feed readers and subscribing to as many feeds as they once did.
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  • Svetlana Gladkova

    12 months ago

    Steve, you are right on spot with this post, definitely - it is much more important if people actually engage with your content then the mere subscription counts. I know from experience that what boosts subscription numbers dramatically for any major blog is to be included as a default one in a batch for some popular feed reader. So I rarely ever trust the huge figures because I know that only a fraction of those "subscribers" are actually engaged in the content created by the blogger.
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  • Maggy Young

    12 months ago

    Think you're talking about the inevitable. A lot of technologies are going to be interim technologies, which doesn't have to mean they die out, but just become less used. Reminds me of a commentt you made re. decline in importance of microsoft - 'What happened - time happened'. Sort of inevitable isn't it ?
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  • sbspalding

    12 months ago

    Sometimes I wonder what the next 5 years will look like. There are a few technologies out there that will survive, but I think a lot of what we use today is "toy tech" and will die as soon as we realize what we were trying to use it for in the first place.
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