• It wouldn’t make you smarter, hap­pier, worth more, have more friends, get laid more often, go to heaven or become a saint. Read­ing every story is a mean­ing­less concept.
• RSS co-inventor Dave Winer • Dis­cussing how the syn­di­ca­tion tech­nol­ogy has been inter­preted all wrong by feed read­ers, specif­i­cally Google Reader. The pro­grams are designed like e-mail pro­grams, which has had the end effect of mak­ing it so you’re encour­aged to read every­thing, like e-mail. Winer con­tin­ues, say­ing that Twit­ter has essen­tially nailed down the news-reading model RSS was try­ing for. “Twit­ter found a way to put both the author­ing tool and the read­ing tool on the home page. Had I cracked that nut in 2002,” he says, “Twit­ter might have hap­pened a few years ear­lier.” source

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