all like what, two of you? or one of you *cough* cait *cough*
There are plenty of reasons people write them.
A while ago people would RSS, get a notification and then go read. Now you RSS the whole shit up on your Google reader and never actually land on the page. Ads ain't got no place here (for now) those things on the left are because they are friends or/and I like handing out some free eye space.
Now granted, I haven't played with Google reader. Maybe I should. I'm still stuck with 'open tabs' i'll explore it some day and be more critical/supportive of it. For now I'll pretend I know everything.
So - one thing a long time ago - web logs use to generate comments, much like Faceplace does now, and maybe that's why they don't anymore. That or why many that used to no longer do. So lack of comments means no one reads, or no one cares, or you said it all, or you didn't sufficiently increase solobreak's blood pressure with some nonsense, or they don't actually read the content on your page, they read it in an aggregated feed.
I suppose it would be nice to say turn on my iPad with a cup of coffee and go to me aggregated feed and scroll through everything without ever having to click on a web page's unique space. But yeah - i don't have that stuff (sure i'd like to have it but i'm actually fine with it, right now I'm thinking about trying to find a decent price on some 24 or wider road tubulars to glue up on the 303s).
I'd say leave a comment as to why you like the RSS feed, and why I should keep it. Although I don't think you can see the whole thing on it anyway. Maybe Reader is different. I dunno
I should write about the ride yesterday, but it was awesome and good and i started off still cooked from monday's velosprints but surprisingly felt pretty f'n awesome on the bike. And Hillside has never been so easy (could be the 20-30 pounds I'm not carrying anymore).
nice day out there right now - if a bit windy.
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As far as I can tell, you have 49 subscribers who use Google Reader (GR).
If you subscribe to a blogger feed in GR, you see the title (link) and some text of the post on one line, click on the title and the display expands to about 4-10 lines of text. To see the whole post, including any images, click the link yet again.
I like the fact I can see the dozens of older post titles at a glance - so make 'em catchy!
GR is also good for quickly scanning tweets, especially for people who put out oodles of them.
man i don't know anyone who puts out oodles of tweets
If you want everything in one place, go to Walmart. If a reader thinks your words are worth more than a mouse click, they'll come anyway. If you're going to write, you may as well have readers who give a shit.
I still read your blog. And I don't have Google Reader (what IS that?). I come to this link almost daily. Don't give up!
I still read your blog. And I don't have Google Reader (what IS that?). I come to this link almost daily. Don't give up!
I read via RSS. I'd love to be able to visit all of my favorite blogs every day and keep up on new posts, but it just doesn't happen. Google Reader gives me a nice summary view of unread posts.
Your RSS feed doesn't include full text, just the first few sentences. So if I find something I want to read all the way, or comment on, I have to click through to the full page.
tl;dr - please, don't kill your RSS feed.
Reader makes it easy to see which of the sites I read have been updated. I suppose I could just bookmark them all and click links every time I was curious, but this is more efficient.
I end up clicking through to the site anyway because generally the view in Reader is a dumbed-down layout.
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