3 Ways To Use Google Reader As An Online Archive:
- Archive Your Tweets. One of the primary ways I use Google Reader as an archive is for backing up my Twitter stream.
- Archive the RSS Feed of Your Blog Content
- Archive Your To-Do List
References:
3 Ways To Use Google Reader As An Online Archive
Showing posts with label RSS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RSS. Show all posts
What do you think of partial vs. full-text RSS feeds?
I don't find partial RSS feeds very useful and generally give preference to full-text when subscribing to new websites in Google Reader.
Dave Winer, the RSS protocol inventor, has an alternative point of view:
"I like abbreviated RSS feeds. I prefer if publishers include thoughtfully written synopses in their feeds, with links to the full articles.
The reason I prefer this is that I am probably one of the few people to use River of News approach to feed reading, which imho is the only rational way to read feeds.
I skim. I don't need the full text of each article, in fact I was so annoyed by feeds that publish full text that I made my aggregator truncate the articles at 500 characters.
BTW, everyone reads a River of News these days. It's called Twitter."
Blog Cartoon: Too Many RSS Feeds to Read. Creative Commons license.
Vamsi Balakrishnan - I prefer full text RSS feeds. Why would I want to navigate to an extra page to read an article? I dislike feeds for google reader that are always shortened...I have to set up a yahoo pipes thingy or find one that's preformed to make a good RSS feed that I can follow to get the full article.
Also, isn't the title supposed to be a good summary of an article?
Clinton Pong - I dislike truncated blogs on RSS. Some of them are hard to read if you navigate to the main page on a mobile device so I end up never getting to read something that I really enjoy!
I hate journal articles even more. Some of their RSS feeds don't even give you the full abstract -- and navigating to the same page after hunting down a reference through a school portal can be a real pain.
Dave Winer, the RSS protocol inventor, has an alternative point of view:
"I like abbreviated RSS feeds. I prefer if publishers include thoughtfully written synopses in their feeds, with links to the full articles.
The reason I prefer this is that I am probably one of the few people to use River of News approach to feed reading, which imho is the only rational way to read feeds.
I skim. I don't need the full text of each article, in fact I was so annoyed by feeds that publish full text that I made my aggregator truncate the articles at 500 characters.
BTW, everyone reads a River of News these days. It's called Twitter."
Blog Cartoon: Too Many RSS Feeds to Read. Creative Commons license.
Comments from Google Buzz:
Vamsi Balakrishnan - I prefer full text RSS feeds. Why would I want to navigate to an extra page to read an article? I dislike feeds for google reader that are always shortened...I have to set up a yahoo pipes thingy or find one that's preformed to make a good RSS feed that I can follow to get the full article.
Also, isn't the title supposed to be a good summary of an article?
Clinton Pong - I dislike truncated blogs on RSS. Some of them are hard to read if you navigate to the main page on a mobile device so I end up never getting to read something that I really enjoy!
I hate journal articles even more. Some of their RSS feeds don't even give you the full abstract -- and navigating to the same page after hunting down a reference through a school portal can be a real pain.
Video: How do I use Feedly and what is Feedly
Video: How do I use Feedly and what is Feedly by Heidi Allen.
My RSS reader of choice for years has been Google Reader but Feedly offers an interesting alternative to a lot of people.
Feedly is based on Google Reader, which means you will need a Google account (i.e. have a Gmail address) to log in.
Noise to signal ratio in social media
The good thing about social media? You can open your Google Reader, see 1,000 unread items, then "mark them all as read" and you would not miss anything major in most cases. So much noise.
In the big scheme of things, the daily blog posts and hourly tweets probably do not matter much... :)
Video: How to use Google Reader to read all your favorite news sites and blogs in one place and share news with friends.
In the big scheme of things, the daily blog posts and hourly tweets probably do not matter much... :)
Video: How to use Google Reader to read all your favorite news sites and blogs in one place and share news with friends.
Medical librarian: There isn't “too much data” or “too many RSS feeds”
David Rothman writes:
"I’m sincerely flabbergasted to hear a librarian (or any information professional) complain that there is “too much data” or “too many RSS feeds.” “Web 2.0″ doesn’t cause an information glut. What causes an information glut is being an information glutton, taking on more than anyone can reasonably manage. There aren’t too many RSS feeds. Rather, there are users who subscribe to too many RSS feeds. The solution isn’t for less data to exist, the solution is smarter, more selective use of the data. The tools that help us filter and manage the information that we care most about are continuing to improve in power and sophistication."
Related reading:
Too many feeds to read? Time to trim down RSS subscriptions. CasesBlog, 2008.
How to deal with the information overload from blogs, RSS and Twitter? CasesBlog, 2009.
References:
“Information Overload” vs. “Filter Failure”
"I’m sincerely flabbergasted to hear a librarian (or any information professional) complain that there is “too much data” or “too many RSS feeds.” “Web 2.0″ doesn’t cause an information glut. What causes an information glut is being an information glutton, taking on more than anyone can reasonably manage. There aren’t too many RSS feeds. Rather, there are users who subscribe to too many RSS feeds. The solution isn’t for less data to exist, the solution is smarter, more selective use of the data. The tools that help us filter and manage the information that we care most about are continuing to improve in power and sophistication."
Related reading:
How to deal with the information overload from blogs, RSS and Twitter? CasesBlog, 2009.
References:
“Information Overload” vs. “Filter Failure”
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