Well if I take myself for instance, I'm what you would call a traditional reader. I collect feeds of high quality sources and categorize/tag them, for instance into Travel, Programming, News and so on.
The main reason for doing this (as supposed to getting email alerts when a site has updated from for instance Google) is that I have everything in one place and I can see what I've already read and what's new. In short, it helps me make cut through to exactly the information I want and enables me to get to it effortlessly, I couldn't manage without an RSS reader anymore. Since the application is that important I felt like I needed to create it myself in order to have total control over it. And then there are special feeds, like for instance Twitter where I get most of my real time information from various agents that tweet news, like the NY Times science twitter account for instance: http://twitter.com/nytimesscience Finally there are the meta feeds which are aggregations, I have a few of these but not many, for instance the Yahoo LISP pipe: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=3PHwctj52xGg02vB6kjTQA Finding the feeds are usually not hard, often sites have explicit icons or links you can click to go to the url of the feed/xml, when you have it you simply add it in your reader. Firefox also displays the feed icon in the address field if it detects a tag that for instance looks like this in the content: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ProDevTips - dev notes and tutorials RSS Feed" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/prodevtips/LVkG"; /> /Henrik On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Alexander Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Henrik, > > thanks for the good work! This really looks like an elaborated piece of > code. > > Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the typical usage of such an RSS > reader? My own experience is limited to using 'rss2email' to monitor a > few feeds. What is, for example, your own working style? Who is a > typical user, and how does he select and interrelate the pieces of > information he is interested in? > > Cheers, > - Alex > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
