Comments on: “Just good enough” and why RSS readers might be skip-tech

By: Is Flipboard that ‘just good enough’ RSS reader? - jon bounds

Is Flipboard that ‘just good enough’ RSS reader? - jon bounds — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:41:19 +0000

[...] A few posts ago I postulated that for most people, for most types of ‘news’ algorithms based around attention and the social graph may well be almost good enough to replace the idea of subscribing to RSS feeds of content directly. [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:22:02 +0000

You might be correct about the human-readable RSS feeds becoming not read by, errr, humans, but certainly RSS and more likely Atom feeds will become more widely spread in machine-readable forms. It is a great lightweight broadcast-listener solution for distributed and federated environments where state changes need to be distributed. In such and environment we may see the RSS/Atom feed presented in a human-readable form but after a machine transformation of the data (or information) objects perhaps using personalisation or other factors. Linked-data does not usurp the broadcast needs for timely updating in federations and I suspect we will still be using this “good enough” lightweight technology for some time to come.

By: Moxy Park

Moxy Park — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:24:23 +0000

Interesting. I've not looked through my RSS reader in a long while, purely because I find skimming through reams of content that doesn't feel relevant, to be a bit of a wast of time. I get my news from Twitter, and thus my “social circle”

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:22:00 +0000

By: Moxy Park

Moxy Park — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:24:00 +0000

Interesting. I’ve not looked through my RSS reader in a long while, purely because I find skimming through reams of content that doesn’t feel relevant, to be a bit of a wast of time. I get my news from Twitter, and thus my “social circle”