Comments on: RSS readers are for professionals http://rc3.org/2009/12/22/rss-readers-are-for-professionals/ Rafe Colburn on software development (and other topics) Wed, 23 May 2012 22:44:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Leo Petr http://rc3.org/2009/12/22/rss-readers-are-for-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-7584 Leo Petr Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:16:33 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10480#comment-7584 <p>They can have my Bloglines when they take it from my cold, dead, rigor-mortis-ridden fingers.</p> They can have my Bloglines when they take it from my cold, dead, rigor-mortis-ridden fingers.

]]> By: Graham King http://rc3.org/2009/12/22/rss-readers-are-for-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-7583 Graham King Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:42:59 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10480#comment-7583 <p>Tech Journalists need to keep track of a broad topic ('technology'), need to know only the key points, and need to know as soon as it happens. That leads them to Twitter.</p> <p>Techies, on the other hand, are interested in a specific subset of technology, really care about the details, and care much less about timeliness. That leads to blogs, and hence a feed reader.</p> <p>I expect most articles on the supposed decline of RSS/Atom are written by tech journalists, or other high level observers, not by those in the trenches.</p> Tech Journalists need to keep track of a broad topic (‘technology’), need to know only the key points, and need to know as soon as it happens. That leads them to Twitter.

Techies, on the other hand, are interested in a specific subset of technology, really care about the details, and care much less about timeliness. That leads to blogs, and hence a feed reader.

I expect most articles on the supposed decline of RSS/Atom are written by tech journalists, or other high level observers, not by those in the trenches.

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