I was thinking today how cool and hip I was using Bloglines as an RSS aggregator compared to people who just go through a list of favourite web sites every day. So 1995. Go RSS, join the 21st century.
Then I thought about it some more and this is essentially what I am doing with bloglines: I have a list of feeds that I go through one by one, looking through the articles. No real difference to going through a sidebar full of bookmarks, looking at websites.
If I am going to evangelise RSS aggregation, what am I going to say are the advantages? Why bother?
- Uniform presentation
- No adverts (for now: I cannot imagine this will forever be true)
- Um
I'm going to continue with bloglines as the reasons above are enough for me, I just won't try to evangelise. As it happens I am not a good evangelist: I have yet to convert anyone to FireFox for example which should be pretty easy. Even after I removed the adware from my boss's PC he showed no interest in FireFox.
Maybe I should examine my RSSing habits and figure out if I am missing the point in some way.
The only people I know who are at all interested in gmail are those of a geeky persuasion.
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I get Feed on Feeds to create a page each hour of all the unread RSS headlines. Makes browsing articles easy.
And as you are running Drupal, you have all the main software alreasy that Feed on Feeds requires.