how many of you use RSS?

[kamper]

Google reader ftw. Always perfectly in sync between work and home. I know reading blogs is stupid, but if you spend some time finding ones by actual smart people who write well on subjects in which you're interested and who write in moderation, it's tremendously useful. I have ~35 feeds, some blogs, some news. It takes me 2 seconds to see if any of them have anything new/interesting.

 

[Dirigible]

There are a few blogs that are useful in my profession. RSS means I'll catch new postings without having to check each one individually.

 

[L1FE]

viigo on the blackberry

 

[SViper]

haha. I'm way off. I thought you were talking about 'Receive Side Scaling.'

 

[abaez]

Google Reader is my god. I have like 100+ sites in it that let me know when any new posts are up.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Dirigible
There are a few blogs that are useful in my profession. RSS means I'll catch new postings without having to check each one individually.

yea it does have its use. in juice it makes it so i just have to click catch up to check all my podcast subscriptions instead of checking all the sites.

course the tech was a bit overhyped when it came out.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: rh71
I haven't found anything to care that much about.

lol, same here.

 

[rasczak]

Don't use them, hated supporting them. Dey is teh Debil!

 

[Praetor]

Originally posted by: arkcom
I use iGoogle:
Facebook
Fatwallet
Forbes
Woot
Dailytech
Weather

"It is 78 degrees outside, sunny, 5 MPH SE wind. Why are you sitting here reading on an RSS feed how nice it is out there, go enjoy it! Tell your boss Weather.com said it's okay."

 

[IronWing]

I wrote an RSS extension for a forum once but I don't use it.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i've got RSS for slickdeals and techbargains on the sidebar.

*gasp* that's worse than a woman going to the mall every weekend looking for shoe deals!

 

[Jawo]

Originally posted by: w3stfa11
iGoogle FTW. I use it everyday.

yup....its great!

 

[ForumMaster]

i use it extensively in opera to read engadget, dailytech, anandtech, xkcd, zero punctuation and my gmail. really useful tool.

 

[cKGunslinger]

I've used RSS widgets to show my Netflix queue - other than that, not really.

 

[eplebnista]

I don't use it but I know what it is/does

:thumbsup:

 

[nerp]

RSS is neat but it's easily overwhelming once you get a lot of feeds going. You end up spending way more time sifting through tons of feeds and reading less than just visiting a handful of top sites daily. Since many sites are just copy/pasting each other endlessly, do you really that many duplicate news items? I was trying to do the RSS thing but just got to that point of tons of noise coming my way with no productivity gain. I'd much rather go to 5-6 bookmarks and get the source directly.

 

[zerocool1]

i read about 15-20 sites regularly so RSS makes it easy to keep up. I use newsgator as my feed aggregator.

 

[wwswimming]

when the Yahoo Finance web page updates stock prices automatically,
is that RSS ?

a friend of mine asked me to set up an RSS feed for his website, so
i did, but i still don't understand it. i know some HTML & javascript &
Flash, but i still don't get RSS.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: Modeps
I'm surprised that such a technology based community isnt more into RSS.

...or at least should be aware of what it means.

 

[fbrdphreak]

I live off RSS. Google Reader says:

From your 82 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 854 items, starred 1 items, shared 38 items, and emailed 7 items.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper

Originally posted by: Modeps
I'm surprised that such a technology based community isnt more into RSS.

...or at least should be aware of what it means.

well i knew about the concept, i just couldn't bring myself to care for the longest time...

 

[Pabster]

It's funny that a whole lot of people use RSS and don't even realize it. iTunes podcasts, for example. What do you think it reads?

I'm a huge Google Reader nut too. Love it.

 

[nageov3t]

I run feedonfeeds on my website... I love it. it's pretty convenient to be able to check for updates on every single news site I visit without having to remember to go to dozens of different websites, and it's in a format that doesn't scream out "this guy is not doing anything work-related!" from a distance when I'm browsing headlines at work.