- 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
Posted by Ernie Smith •
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Who reads everything in their RSS reader? You’re surfing for signal, not reading every story.
I think Winer’s argument is that RSS readers should be better designed to encourage that – which is why he brought up Twitter. Because that has a more natural “surf for signal” mechanism.
Who reads everything in their RSS reader? You’re surfing for signal, not reading every story.
I think Winer’s argument is that RSS readers should be better designed to encourage that – which is why he brought up Twitter. Because that has a more natural “surf for signal” mechanism.