Comments on: Is RSS a complete failure?

By: familytravelmom

familytravelmom — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:48:27 +0000

It is perplexing.
I wonder if you reached out to the mommy bloggers and find out what their stats for RSS followers are?
They seem to really create a following. Is it because they aren’t selling anything and just build friendships to support more blog ad funding?
Check out following #savvyblogging on twitter to get a glimpse of how this genre lives…

By: familytravelmom

familytravelmom — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:48:00 +0000

By: Frank Gilroy

Frank Gilroy — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:29:45 +0000

I dunno. I think the bottom line is that RSS, Twitter, all of these tools are really just a means to an end. If they cause wider distribution among us geeks and hence raise the perceived value of the post among the search engines then more non-geeks are likely to see the article. The next question then becomes 'Is the perceived value of an article being artificially slanted towards the bias of the average geek because we have more tools do deal with the information overload?" Frank Gilroy´s last blog post..7 Ways to Keep a New Blog on Technology Afloat

By: Frank Gilroy

Frank Gilroy — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:29:00 +0000

By: Grant Griffiths

Grant Griffiths — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:24:06 +0000

Frank – Thanks for you comment and for adding to the conversation about RSS. I also wonder if you might be right. Those of us who subscribe to all those RSS feeds, are we unproductive. LOL Today I also asked the question again if perhaps twitter is making RSS a thing of the past. Don’t know and have not decided yet.

By: Grant Griffiths

Grant Griffiths — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:24:00 +0000

By: Frank Gilroy

Frank Gilroy — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:00:21 +0000

This is a very good point. I wrote about this very topic last year in a post titled "6 Things Regular People Aren't Doing on the Internet". What just struck me today while reading your post was that there are a few blogs, one of my favorites actually, that have over 100,000 subscribers via RSS. It's a self-help and productivity type of blog. Can it then be deduced that all of us geeks using RSS are also incredibly un-productive because of it? LOL Frank Gilroy´s last blog post..7 Ways to Keep a New Blog on Technology Afloat

By: Frank Gilroy

Frank Gilroy — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:00:00 +0000

By: John Haydon

John Haydon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:12:07 +0000

Grant,

My Google Reader is filled with unread posts – tons! I’m lucky if I get to it once a week.

Friendfeed and Twitter have become my “readers”. For those “must read” blogs (like yours (I use email).

I wonder if your traffic gets a bump on the day you publish your newsletter?

We might have to wait for better readers for the average Joe.

John Haydon´s last blog post..Video Tutorial: Tweetdeck Now Has Facebook Status Integration Using Facebook Connect

By: John Haydon

John Haydon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:12:00 +0000

Grant,

My Google Reader is filled with unread posts – tons! I’m lucky if I get to it once a week.

Friendfeed and Twitter have become my “readers”. For those “must read” blogs (like yours (I use email).

I wonder if your traffic gets a bump on the day you publish your newsletter?

We might have to wait for better readers for the average Joe.

John Haydon´s last blog post..Video Tutorial: Tweetdeck Now Has Facebook Status Integration Using Facebook Connect