We believe that all the new information that you are interested in, should be automatically aggregated into one place from various sources you care about (both Internet and intranet) into easy-to-read format and automatically filtered based on the rules you define. We believe it is waste of valuable time to spend minutes or even hours every day to go through dozens of websites, blogs, social media sites etc. We believe time is our most valuable asset. For example, here’s the way Feedbro, a contemporary RSS reader, describes the benefits of using a feed reader: Now the sea-change has come, but RSS is still here, even if it’s not talked about as RSS. would inject another layer of mindfulness and intentionality into one’s information regime. Part of the idea was that one would save time, but an even better part–for me and for others–was that the whole process of choosing, curating, assembling, etc. When in the pre-paywall days the New York Times began providing RSS feeds for each of its sections, I and other RSS boosters thrilled to the idea, and the demonstrable value, of assembling our own customized newspapers and having them delivered to us each day, perhaps even in updated versions throughout the day. It was a pretty logo and an exciting sign of one of the read-write web’s most attractive features: the ability to construct one’s own virtual “newspaper” in a way that would deliver to you all the daily writings you wanted to read, easily and automatically. Along the way, I’ve also been looking at RSS feeds, as in “does site xyz provide an RSS feed?” Used to be that one would look for the RSS-beacon logo as a sign that syndication was available. I’m putting my blog network back together, and to do that, I’ve been looking at RSS readers.
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