Comments on: How much do you rely on your feed reader?

By: shawn mccollum

shawn mccollum — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:56:40 +0000

I love reading feeds so much I built my own web based feed reader to help handle my overload. I also started to play with ways to integrate twitter and friendfeed into it.

By: Is Your Feed Reader Becoming Boring? | SheGeeks

Is Your Feed Reader Becoming Boring? | SheGeeks — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:40:01 +0000

[...] Becoming Boring? By Corvida Kevin Muldoon posed a great question about how much we might rely on feed readers. Do we do it? I think the average blogger [...]

By: Jennifer Pointer

Jennifer Pointer — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:13:15 +0000

I lost all of my feeds when reddit's feedreader went down a couple of years ago, and never got them back. At the time it was devastating, but I never did fully re-build the list, because once I got out of the habit of obsessively checking the reader, I realized I'd been wasting a lot of time skimming 100's of headlines, instead of reading a few quality articles/posts per day.

By: Corvida

Corvida — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:08:18 +0000

I don't rely on my feed reader too much more these days. It's great, don't get me wrong, but the best content that I find is via Friendfeed, Twitter, or someone's blog that I probably found via one of those services.

I've definitely started branching out. To be honest, my feed reader is getting boring.

By: StevieB’s Shared Items - January 12, 2009 at Lost in Cyberspace

StevieB’s Shared Items - January 12, 2009 at Lost in Cyberspace — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:02:22 +0000

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By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:26:29 +0000

I also have a Netvibes account and I know for sure you can back up all your data in Netvibes.

There is some setting in Netvibes that allows you do this, however I cant tell you exactly where it is straight out of my head, I would reccomend anyone using Netvibes or any other RSS service to back up the feeds, they take minimum space, its quick and easy to do and will give you peace of mind.

By: Kevin Muldoon

Kevin Muldoon — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:08:31 +0000

I have a backup from a few months ago as I used it to transfer my feeds to googles ireader. However, I don't have a recent one and my netvibes account is still not showing any feeds. Eek!!

By: Jared O'Toole

Jared O'Toole — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:43:11 +0000

I rely heavily on my rss reader. It obviously makes it easy to keep up-to-date on my favorite blogs but I am subscribed to ton of random blogs that I check up on once in awhile. I probably spend at least 2hrs a day in google reader, reading posts then clicking through to comment on interesting ones.

By: Angie Bowen

Angie Bowen — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:18:34 +0000

I'd be lost without my feed reader and you've just reminded me that I haven't backed up my feeds in a long time. I use Google Reader and subscribe to about 150 feeds. I just might cry if I lost all of them lol.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:30:26 +0000

Would die without it. In fact there are many sites I don't read because they don't / didn't offer feeds.

How can they!!

By: Adele

Adele — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:07:07 +0000

I sign up to get postings via my email for sites, like this one, where I want information, especially about blogging. I then can quickly scan through my email to see if I want to go to the Blog too which in most cases I do. I also subscribe to a number of Goggle messages about various subjects I'm interested in and find that very useful.

By: Andrew Acomb

Andrew Acomb — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:04:37 +0000

After reading this, I am now setting up a back up reader!!! I really HEAVILY on my rss reader. Currently I have over 350 subscriptions for a wide variety of news, blogs, and Google Alerts.

If I lost these, I'm not sure if I could possible find all the feeds again. Especially some of the lesser little know blogs that I find so interesting.

By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:36:54 +0000

I cant live without my RSS reader. It is the only real way to keep up-to-date with all your favourite websites in one simple location.

By: axel

axel — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:22:02 +0000

At first I though Feeds weren't useful at all. Now I have changed my mind. It's a fast and easy way to stay tuned and find easily what interests me.

By: Blog Connection

Blog Connection — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:18:34 +0000

I use my feed reader to follow just about everything from Forums, to blogs, to news, to Yahoo Answers. If a venue does not offer an RSS feed I lose interest. It is how I stay engaged on the web.