Comments on: Do RSS Feeds make Bloggers lazy?

By: Brennan Young

Brennan Young — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:48:12 +0000

Jesper, I think you just invented RSS 3.0

By: Jesper

Jesper — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:03:13 +0000

I like the idea that rare postings make for quality blogs, though I think many people are taking it too far.

This makes me think of an inverse RSS pull mechanism: As a reader, you should be able to solicit interesting blog postings, and as a blogger my feed puller should alert me that someone is looking for something to read?

By: Linn Sovig

Linn Sovig — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:51:05 +0000

Feed, ofcourse.

And I wholeheartedly agree with Jeremy.

Although bloggers with a lot of quality stuff to say stress me out as well. Just because they blog often and ALOT doesn’t mean they’re content irrelevant, take Henry Jenkins, for example. But good golly it’s exhausting!

So bloggers that blog every now and then are much appreciated. It’s a breath of fresh air and I get much more joy out of reading a blog that gets updated with spaces inbetween.

So I welcome the new laziness! I think when we got rid of the pressure to keep updating blogs because of fear of loosing readers – we ended up with a lot more quality blogs – at least on my blogroll.

Right – 611 unread feeds to go! Woo hoo!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:45:31 +0000

Does email make people lazy? It seems to me that a distribution channel (as opposed to a location-based news service) just frees you to speak when you have something to say. That could be ten times a day or once a year. People more interested in influencing breaking events and keeping a high Technorati rating will find that unacceptable, but I actually pay more attention to people who blog less quantity and more quality – I really wouldn’t mind (or call it ‘lazy’) if all of my sources reduced their output by 50%, to be honest.

By: Niels

Niels — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:20:35 +0000

To be totally honest, I even dislike feeds. It makes me add more and more and eventually just not reading it because it gets to much. I know, it’s just me being silly, but that won’t make me like them.

I got a few blogs in my bookmarks-toolbar and whenever I’ve got time I just click those buttons and see if there’s anything new. Simple as that :).

By: Brennan Young

Brennan Young — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:08:31 +0000

You think I’d come by here if it wasn’t for Safari nagging me that you’d been busy with something?

By: Jesper

Jesper — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:46:06 +0000

Daniel, feel free to mail.

Thanks all – I will start making real posts now!

By: Daniel Kinney

Daniel Kinney — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:00:32 +0000

Feed via Google Reader. I wouldn't feel too bad, though. It's been since December I last made a real post on mine. ;) Keep it up, and we'll keep following! (Incidentally, I'd like to discuss with you your new game, sometime. I hope it wouldn't be a nuisance if I emailed you?)

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:18:24 +0000

I actually visit your blog about once a day. It’s part of my routine, so I think nothing of it if there’s no new post, I just skip on to the next site.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:31:14 +0000

Alright – I turned on the option to make the RSS feed show the full post. It may take a while to show up for older posts.