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Originally Posted by EvanPitts  |
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I never really understood the point of RSS, and I wish there was some way to disable it on my system because the icon takes up space in the address bar. There is nothing more annoying that someone sending me spam I don't want while I am trying to find something on the Internet; almost as annoying as getting spam when I am trying to read email... |
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Hey:
For me, RSS is indispensable. There are 100 or so photographers I follow on flickr. In order to go check each and every one of their web pages each and every day to see if they have something new (and only about 5% ever do), it would take the better part of a couple hours.
RSS allows me to check each and every one of their sites every half an hour, and, if there are any new images, it will report back to me.
As someone who writes about the Mac, there are also about fifty blogs, news sites, etc that I check. Again, we have an hour or so a day spent just going to see if there's anything new. And if something happens ten minutes after I check, I miss it for 24 hours. Or else I have to go back and check. And check again. And my entire life becomes just me going out and checking blogs and flickr sites... RSS does that for me, but in a fraction of the time. Every half an hour, my feeds update, and look: I have seven new articles in news, and one new article in my personal feed (hope it's a new
OOTS)
New topics from ehmac show up in my feed, too, which means that I can participate fully in the site without having to actually sit here all day, every day waiting for new posts....
If you only have one or two sites you check every day, then RSS is probably not useful. But if you have even ten sites that you look at regularly, I think RSS is much more useful.
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