Steven Cahill

Every morning I wake up (this morning I pressed snooze a couple of dozen times) and check my email (personal & work yes even on a Sunday) and then sit down and read my RSS feeds, it’s like what my dad used to do on Sunday mornings and read the Sunday newspaper however I sit with my laptop and read via Google Reader.

To my surprise I spotted an article titled “Is RSS Reading Dead?” via my mashable feed.  My first reaction was a Really Simple “No!”

But is RSS the best way to read news and blogs? An article in Slate Magazine this week piqued our interest. In the piece, Farhad Manjoo discusses how he gave up Google Reader for consuming news and hasn’t regretted it; reading news became a boring chore for him, just like reading email, and browsing the web was a more enjoyable way to discover news.

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The Mashable article came about from Farhad Manjoo of Slate.com article Kill your RSS reader

Farhad Manjoo decribes a system in which he gave up his RSS Reader for.

My system is similar, though I give my folders friendlier names. In the “8 a.m.” folder, I put the sites I check first thing in the morning: Techmeme, Google News, Drudge, the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Digg, and others that round up the day’s news. On the “10 a.m.” list, I’ve got less pressing daily sites—things like Kottke, Andrew Sullivan, Marc Ambinder, Josh Marshall, Salon, and Fark. I’ve also got folders for pages that I like to check several times a week, folders for sites I check just once a week, and still more folders for blogs that I look at only a few times a month. Like Surtees, I’ve also got one more folder for blogs I’m not sure about—when I encounter something new that seems kind of interesting, I put it in the “Test” folder. I look at these from time to time, and if a site continues to appeal to me, I drag it into one of my other regular folders.

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My life is busy as it is; I like the concept of having everything in one locale, which also gives me the capabilities to share amongst my network (twitter, facebook and even on my blog); Farhad Manjoo’s system may work for him; but to me it looks time consuming, data consuming and seems as if it moves away from the simplicities that RSS proposes … Give me RSS any day.

Do you use RSS?