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Poll talks (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:RSS: a relic of the dialup era (Score:4, Insightful)
For me RSS was not about bandwidth but time and distraction. Each site would suck me in with something I did not go there to look at.
I used to have 20-30 sites I would look at every day. Now I look at 1-2 and pick the stories that look interesting before I hit the site...
Went from 2-3 hours of surfing random pages I looked at every day to 15 mins and surfing for new stuff...
Re:Poll talks (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm surprised its as high as 30% saying they do.
Suggests that really, google should spin it off and let someone else run it. There's enough demand for it. If I had a startup with a product that 30% of /. cared about, I'd consider myself in pretty good shape.
Re:RSS: a relic of the dialup era (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not bandwidth, it's volume.
I get feeds from a pile or research journals in my field. A typical day I can have 150 new items in the feed, perhaps 2-3 of which are actually of interest to me at the time. With a feed reader I can leaf through and pick out the few interesting ones in ten minutes. If I had to go to the site of each journal I'd spend half my morning doing the same.
Or say you're following tech sites such as Verge, Ars Technical and so on. Much faster to flip through all their new items and visit the ones that interest you than having to visit each site individually.
Finally, feeds are good for anything that updates irregularly. Since it's in your feed you can simply ignore it, and yet never risk missing an update. "XKCD What If", "WTF Evolution" and "Research In Progress" come to mind as perfect for this.
Re:So what is it? (Score:3, Insightful)
This.
Meme.
Sucks,