We’re certainly fans of RSS (and Atom) feeds here at WWD; our own full content goes out, we’ve reviewed plenty of feed readers, and we recognize feeds as one of the underlying technologies that is driving plenty of innovation. But we also know that this firehose of information poses problems, notably the feel that you’re spending all your time reading feeds. Perhaps the time has come for the next generation of technologies to displace feeds, by giving us smarter ways to find the info we really need.
Social media pro Connie Reece points to this evolution in a recent post, “Feed Reader Down, Reading Up.” In it, she explains how a combination of Twitter, Instapaper, group feeds, and sites like Alltop have let her cut feed reader use and still connect with more blogs that she cares about. Notably she points out “if it’s truly important, I’ll come across it some place besides my feed reader.” How about you? Are you finding smarter ways to locate things, or are you just working harder at keeping your feeds under control?
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