Comments on: Newspapers: keep your RSS feeds http://doctorvee.co.uk/2009/07/01/newspapers-keep-your-rss-feeds/ Not a real vee Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2009/07/01/newspapers-keep-your-rss-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-1304973 doctorvee Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:04 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/?p=3150#comment-1304973 Malcolm, I guess that's another chicken-and-egg thing, but who would subscribe to a gibberish RSS feed in the first place? They didn't neglect to fix it because there were too few RSS subscribers. There were too few RSS subscribers because they neglected to fix it. James, That's all the fun of it! :) Malcolm, I guess that’s another chicken-and-egg thing, but who would subscribe to a gibberish RSS feed in the first place? They didn’t neglect to fix it because there were too few RSS subscribers. There were too few RSS subscribers because they neglected to fix it.

James, That’s all the fun of it! :)

]]> By: jameshigham http://doctorvee.co.uk/2009/07/01/newspapers-keep-your-rss-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-1304711 jameshigham Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:38 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/?p=3150#comment-1304711 Twitter seems to me to be just that - people twittering on about nothing. Twitter seems to me to be just that – people twittering on about nothing.

]]> By: Malcolm Coles http://doctorvee.co.uk/2009/07/01/newspapers-keep-your-rss-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-1304432 Malcolm Coles Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:39:46 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/?p=3150#comment-1304432 Well, if people never used the page, it probably wouldn't matter if they fixed it or not ... And I'm definitely not suggesting a godawful auto RSS->Twitter idea. Anyway, you can read my climbdown here: http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/newspapers-leave-rss-on/ Well, if people never used the page, it probably wouldn’t matter if they fixed it or not … And I’m definitely not suggesting a godawful auto RSS->Twitter idea. Anyway, you can read my climbdown here: http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/newspapers-leave-rss-on/

]]> By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2009/07/01/newspapers-keep-your-rss-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-1302704 doctorvee Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:43:46 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/?p=3150#comment-1302704 Thanks Lis! :) Thanks Lis! :)

]]> By: last year's girl http://doctorvee.co.uk/2009/07/01/newspapers-keep-your-rss-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-1302677 last year's girl Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:19:18 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/?p=3150#comment-1302677 There's really nothing I can add to this excellently written post, as I agree entirely. If newspapers were to use Twitter to promote every article, automatically published in the style of an RSS feed, users would quickly become dissilusioned and grumpy with the amount of content they were receiving and would easily miss stories of relevance - there's simply no way that a regular Twitter user can read every single piece of information that streams by. Regardless of how specific such feeds are! As you say above Duncan, the advantages that Twitter has over RSS (retweets, conversation) are things that Twitter users will likely do with interesting content anyway. As I am about to do with this article, which I access through RSS! There’s really nothing I can add to this excellently written post, as I agree entirely. If newspapers were to use Twitter to promote every article, automatically published in the style of an RSS feed, users would quickly become dissilusioned and grumpy with the amount of content they were receiving and would easily miss stories of relevance – there’s simply no way that a regular Twitter user can read every single piece of information that streams by. Regardless of how specific such feeds are! As you say above Duncan, the advantages that Twitter has over RSS (retweets, conversation) are things that Twitter users will likely do with interesting content anyway. As I am about to do with this article, which I access through RSS!

]]> By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2009/07/01/newspapers-keep-your-rss-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-1301060 doctorvee Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:55:25 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/?p=3150#comment-1301060 Thanks for commenting Malcolm. It seems that you are saying that because newspapers have failed at RSS, they should give up on it. But if a newspaper had a broken website full of dead links, would you suggest that they give up on that too? Thanks for commenting Malcolm. It seems that you are saying that because newspapers have failed at RSS, they should give up on it. But if a newspaper had a broken website full of dead links, would you suggest that they give up on that too?

]]> By: Malcolm Coles http://doctorvee.co.uk/2009/07/01/newspapers-keep-your-rss-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-1301053 Malcolm Coles Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:48:12 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/?p=3150#comment-1301053 "The real problem is not that RSS has failed for newspapers. It’s that newspapers have failed at RSS." That was the point I was trying to make. Apparently not very well ... “The real problem is not that RSS has failed for newspapers. It’s that newspapers have failed at RSS.”

That was the point I was trying to make. Apparently not very well …

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