[Justin Fleming's Fuchsia Shock - Freelance UK webdesign & marketing, ideas m...
Think I may drop the use of RSS to get all those updates from the wonderful sites that I follow.
Instead, I think I'll go all retro and keep a list of all the website I have a regular interest in and actually go to them to read the latest.
This is how RSS works backwards - I just looked and honestly have site feeds in there that I read all the time, yet I have NEVER been to their actually website since the RSS is the full post and I subscribed to it from an RSS directory.
It must impact a websites' effectiveness if readers never set mouse on their homepages?
Also my RSS reader, lovely and useful as it is, reduces my daily reading to a mindless, mostly text-only, dreary discipline to just get through it ready for the next day.
Actually visiting a site, on the other hand, is a wonderful as-it-is-meant-to-be experience and since every site is different, makes viewing those updates a stimulating hobby once again.
Websites were meant to be visited so that you can feel their expression in design as well as content which all blends together. With only full-feed RSS feeds, the technicolour internet becomes a phone directory.
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Justin Fleming's Fuchsia Shock - Freelance UK webdesign & marketing, ideas man and muse on 3/30/2008 03:31:00 PM
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