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- ubernoggin, on 05/01/2008, -2/+32I'll be sure to wear my armband.
- meruru, on 05/01/2008, -7/+37In the spirit of RSS day how about you inform those of us (including me) who see no value in subscribing to RSS feeds. Why should I subscribe to an RSS feed for a site I follow regularly? I mean if I'm visiting the site daily what tangible benefit does the RSS feed have, I'm going to see the content anyways by just visiting the site. Open my mind to the wonders that RSS can provide.
- Owwmykneecap, on 05/01/2008, -2/+27Yes we need to help awareness and raise funds for those afflicted by RSS.
Lets set a target to eradicate it from every man woman and child by the year 2525. - talkingwires, on 05/01/2008, -4/+22Judging by the number of XKCD and Zero Punctuation stories on the front page, only 5% of Digg users use it, too.
- scyon, on 05/01/2008, -2/+18I monitor about 200 feeds. Checking each of them daily would be impractical without the use of an rss reader.
- JK1150, on 05/01/2008, -4/+20uhhh why?
- theaceoffire, on 05/01/2008, -2/+12I use it for tv.
By using http://tvrss.net/ and utorrent or deluge, I can have my favorite TV shows auto download themselves with no commercials.
I also use it to share bookmarks with multiple browsers that I use (Cause I am kinda lazy and RSS makes it easy to change em all). - Doktag, on 05/01/2008, -1/+10I only started using RSS feeds about 3 weeks ago, but I wouldn't go back to not using it now. It depends how many blogs / websites / webcomics you read regularly, but I have found it immensely useful. It quickly allows me to see if any of the websites I read have published a new post, and I can either read it in the feed reader, or go to the website and read it there.
My biggest issue when deciding to try using RSS feeds was finding a good feed aggregator. I ended up going with Google Reader ( http://www.google.com/reader ), as I already had a gmail account, I can access it from anywhere, and I had heard other people recommend it.
I haven't tried anything else, but i love Google Reader. There are also various Google Reader Notifiers out there, so you can know the second a new post is put up. - Chimone, on 05/01/2008, -1/+10New things scare me. RSS is the work of the devil
Save me Jeebus - tiuk, on 05/01/2008, -1/+10I was a pretty slow adopter of RSS considering my background (probably started using it 1.5-2 years ago), but even after using it for a short time I realized I could never go back. Basically the idea is you don't -have- to visit a favorite site regularly to follow it. Why periodically check a website for updates (many times finding that there aren't any and you've just wasted time) when you can have the content come to you instead?
- adamuffa, on 05/01/2008, -0/+7RSS changed my life forever with how I get my information and I could never go back.
Bookmarks are the clunkiest invention ever. Yea, let me manually browse to which sites I want to view instead of them having the information delivered to me. - inactive, on 05/01/2008, -0/+7Tomorrow is D14BL0 Day, an equally important holiday in Internet history. On D14BL0 Day, we celebrate my minor uses and praise me as a god.
There will be cake. - yukevster, on 05/01/2008, -1/+7okay, someone tell me why I would need RSS....
- Doktag, on 05/01/2008, -3/+8That and TBA. TBA is a terrible disease that needs more fundraising.
- Onestone, on 05/01/2008, -1/+6Why RSS? Atom is the technologically superior standard. I'd prefer having a "feed awareness day".
- Ebeach, on 05/01/2008, -1/+6I'm in the same boat as the parent. I had a digg, slashdot and a few other feeds. And after a while I realized that I enjoyed visiting those sites. Maybe it had to do with my routine, but RSS was taking away from that. It seemed so bare bones. Oh, here's all that info you wanted, minus the UI and character you've come to know. It started to feel, dare I say it on the web, impersonal.
- funkytaco, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/1268/rsspe4.gif
My reason - with pick-atch-ures. - madk, on 05/01/2008, -1/+5I am subbed to about 20 feeds but I am definitely not the average internet user. While I love it, RSS is just another tech that is useless to the average user.
- serif69, on 05/01/2008, -0/+4And both of those are best described as aggregators as it is, so you're basically subscribing to two RSS aggregators that filter out all the stupid crap for you. Well, some of the stupid crap anyway.
- esquilax, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Agreed, besides, if you were praising RSS day, you'd have to figure out which of the 9 mutually incompatible and not backward compatible versions of RSS to praise: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incomp ...
Atom's just not a product of some misguided holy war, let's standardize on that. - MattBD, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Google Reader is the best way there is to keep up with lots of feeds. Even if you're at another computer, you can use it to read your feeds. I sometimes read them during my lunch break.
- xike, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3I tried to explain RSS to my dad once...trust me, many of the people who don't understand RSS aren't the ones that would use it anyway.
- inactive, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3I visit a lot of websites regularly, but I pretty much know when to expect something new - webcomics generally have a weekly schedule, and of course places like digg update pretty much constantly.
- Azriel7, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3I recently got into RSS and love it. However, a lot of sites I go to, do not have RSS. I found a solution though. If you go to a site like http://www.dapper.net/ you can create RSS feeds from sites that do not have RSS, it is not perfect but it is better than nothing.
- mycatsasha, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3That sounds a lot better than RSS Day. At least D14BL0 day has cake. No cake = no fun.
- 11oops, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3Learn how to use the reply button. It's there for a reason.
- techbrute, on 05/01/2008, -0/+3I need more advance notice next time. This only showed up in my RSS feed an hour and half ago. I need at least a day to request the time off.
- gootecks, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2Woulda been pretty helpful if this made the front page a week ago instead of ON RSS DAY ITSELF.
- serif69, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Irony is someone posting something ironic and having to ask if it's ironic.
- Kingoftherings, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2I was thinking about putting RSS on my site, today sounds like a good day to do it.
- clinko, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Can someone link to a professional, safe for work (Described below), feed aggregater?
I'm blocked from Google reader, and everything else is all "Web 2.0" or doesn't look professional. I need something that I can have open on my desktop and not have ridiculous bright colors or punch the monkey ads. - HawkeyeMatt, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2lol, what episode?
- gandhii, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2I agree,,, if all rss feeds included the article in the feed.. it would be fine.. but when you have to go to the site.. it is a pain.
- judicar, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2That site's RSS feed is broken...is that irony?
- Doktag, on 05/01/2008, -1/+3Sigh, dugg down. Arrested Development, anyone?
- twrife, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2Lmao. Is it that hard to copy and past a link? Instead of going to 10+ websites to look and see if there are new posts, you get them in one spot.
Additionally, if you don't have time time to look at some during the middle of the day (work, school, etc.), they are all still there and easily accessible when you have the time.
Before I was using RSS I would go back several pages in Gizmodo to the last article I viewed and scroll through everything on every page. Now it's all in one spot. If you want to know what all passed through Digg in the time you were away I think it would be near impossible for you to do that without RSS. - halogoggles, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2I don't really understand, what is wrong with Google Reader???
- Swoshmn, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2I presently have 60 feeds on my RSS Reader. I love it. I've even turned some of my not very internet friendly buddies onto it. But, making a website devoted to spreading it's awareness is borderline retarded. (yes, xkcd is on my reader, haha)
- adamuffa, on 05/01/2008, -0/+2ok, imagine never having to visit any bookmarked sites and having all the content delivered to you in one system. Unless you visit a small handful of sites daily, I guarantee RSS will change the way to get your news.
check out google reader. - 11oops, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1That's super, but there are reply buttons on Digg which is where this guy posted.
- WITFITS, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1For what it's worth, I use Netvibes (www.netvibes.com).
- dood, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1All kidding aside, the reply buttons frequently fail to appear. I haven't investigated it, but I've seen it a whole bunch of times, and not just when threads get "too deep".
- bizarrojack, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1Maybe May 2 could be RSS awareness day 2.0
- Doktag, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1s03e07 - Prison Break-In
:) - dood, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I think this page needs more information on how someone would benefit from using RSS.
"The main benefit of RSS is that it enables people to stay connected with their favorite websites without having to visit them."
So instead of one visiting a list of websites they like, they "visit" their RSS reader. Then if they want to read more than an abstract, they have to "visit" the site -- one they probably already have bookmarked and check periodically, anyway.
Maybe I'm missing something here. I don't see the "win." - tastethevenom, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1If you want to make subscribing to your "RSS feed" as easy as possible, install a simple Subscribe button... http://www.addtoany.com/
There's no explanation needed once people see that they can add the site's "feed" to My Yahoo, Netvibes, iGoogle, AOL... etc. - MattBD, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I'm glad that the Dilbert website finally has an RSS feed - that was a real pain and now it's a Flash-heavy monstrosity that takes ages to load, I wouldn't want to have to visit it.
- BobsYourUncle, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I just use them for podcasts. Easy to tell if I new one has been posted without having to go to the site.
- Doktag, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I actually don't subscribe to digg's rss feeds, because, like you said, it updates constantly. I would be getting a ridiculous amount of notifications otherwise. I like refreshing digg, because you know there will almost always be new content when it loads. You can't exactly say the same with blogs or webcomics. Wouldn't you want to know exactly when a new post or comic is up, without having to constantly check the page? That's the beauty of RSS.
- BobsYourUncle, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Any recommendations for RSS reader add-ons in FireFox? I tried infoRSS and Wizz and didn't really like them. Just using Live Bookmarks right now.
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