Comments on: Questions for Bloggers and the Readers Who Love Them, Part 2

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:14:47 +0000

As sad as it seems – I do not RSS anything. I know, I know… I’m old school and prefer to check in on everyone on occasion and sometimes I slip up and manage to miss someone. Still – I’m trying to detach from this wired world and RSS as crazy as it may sound seems like one more way to be me attached and addicted.

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By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:36:38 +0000

1. RSS, 70 feeds
2. I’m reading them almost every waking moment
3. I read most of them within the feed reader, unless they have extended bodies that require clicking on the page.
4. I’m not so concerned with length of posts, as long as they’re not waffling. If it’s long, but it’s all well written and relevant, then great.
5. Nope.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:57:45 +0000

1. RSS. 65 feeds.

2. Fairly often I guess after my morning scan I normally catch them pretty much as the come in.

3. I scan through marking as read those that don’t interest me and then refresh and start reading through what’s left.

4. I subscribe to a few personal finance blogs and have found lately that I skip by many of the articles I used to read, probably mainly because I’m just cleared my debt but also they can get quite repetitive and are often long but generally size doesn’t matter I do sometimes star long items to read later though.

5. Sometimes but now I’ve heard that I’ll stop.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:24:36 +0000

1. RSS. I have 315 feeds in Google Reader, and a few that I only read in Opera’s reader. Several I subscribe to in both.

2. I couldn’t tell you how many times I check my feeds each day. I’ll say this, though: I spend more time at the computer than Mike does.

3. I scan the articles in the reader. If it looks interesting, or useful, enough, I click on through to the site.

4. I like posts that are interesting. Length isn’t really a consideration; although, there are times when I’m bothered if there isn’t enough meat to a post, and times when something short is good for an e-escape. It really depends on the focus of the post.

5. No! No donation clicks! I fear the mighty Google!

By: nina

nina — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:01:09 +0000

1. RSS all the way. It’s so much easier and not as time consuming than checking all 20+ blogs I keep tabs on.

2. I use Opera’s built in RSS reader, so as long as I have my browser window open, it automatically check every 5-30 minutes.

3. It depends on the site. Some sites I prefer reading in the feed reader, some sites I prefer reading in the original site, as I also want to read the reader’s comments.

4. When I post about newsbits or quote other sites, I usually get lazy and just type in a one line comment. When I write about my experiences, it can get pretty long.

5. No, unless the ad is something I’m really interested in.