A few weeks ago, I thought why not? everyone is using a rss reader, so i should too! So I downloaded a rss reader to my dashboard and proceeded to add the blogs I read to it.
The following days felt…too organized. It would tell me when the blog had been updated. I could easily read all the latest entries on that widget. It felt strange and alien, but I kept up with the blogs more diligently than I had previously. Yet, there was no satisfaction of randomly visiting a blog and discovering to my pleasure that it had been updated. I didn\’t like that lack of the emotional aspect. I didn\’t like the lack of spontaniety and serendipity.
A few days later, I deleted the widget and decided to return to my good old roots of using my mind to predict when my friends\’ blogs would be updated.
That\’s why I didn\’t like livejournal. I could never rely on the fact that people could miss it. They would always see it. The same with the xanga subscriptions. The way I blog is meant to be read daily, diligently…or just in one sitting every few days. Or at least that\’s how I perceive it. It\’s meant to be stumbled upon on, whether by google or some trigger in the memory.
But if you must, my rss feed (and very unformatted) is here.
that\’s how I felt about using rss feaders.. I lost a lot of joy from randomly surfing and checking blogs. too automated and efficient!
i can\’t rss either. i generally binge blogs — big gulps. yesterday i devoured two years of someone\’s LJ. ya, crazy.
I must agree with you here Jenn. Whenever I use an rss reader it\’s mainly to see the headlines on news sites. Reading random peoples blog is much more fun the old way.
Someone has to stick up for the blog RSS feeds! I use them in Safari RSS and also in Firefox, but I like Safari\’s implementation better.
It\’s obviously a personal preference. For me, if I did not have the RSS feeds I\’d run through 10+ blogs that I know I want to read and catch updates for, in addition to xangas. And I\’d want to get them as soon as they post, which meant I would check the blogs like 5 times a days (not a good habit). Knowing when the blogs are out streamlines the process for the blogs I do read. As for other blogs…. well I might go to them if I find a reference.
Too organized, because that\’s not how life is like! People are not meant to know everything that happens and that\’s how blogs should be like.
Then again, it must bother people that I update once a day