Why I hate RSS feeds…
…Mainly because I feel they are meant for lazy people. I’m very lazy. But why should a software leverage that and make me worse than what I already am?
“We track your favorite news, blogs, weather, and classifieds so that you don’t have to,” says the Bloglines RSS page very helpfully. But I intensely dislike the concept of all the news I require been dumped into my folder. Like food packets in a refugee camp.
A tiger enjoys hunting for its food. Trail the deer, ambush, plunge! I’m pretty sure said tiger wouldn’t appreciate door delivery from Subway on a daily basis.
I’m no tiger but I do miss the news hunt. I miss having to hop from one web site to another, snooping around for news that matters to me. A link here, a peep there, a url mailed by a colleague, some important article spotted buried under a pile of useless new items… Oh! The pleasure of ‘locating’ news is immeasurable. At times, on ‘spotting’ a piece of info, I feel like a snoopy journo who has just landed a scoop.
Now here comes the worst part. I crib about RSS feeds routinely and use it routinely. Time constraints, work pressure, fear of missing out on news, the works. Plus it’s there, therefore.
But I draw the line at RSS feeds for my favorite blogs. I hop, skip and jump from one blog to another, a hazaar questions popping into my mind. Did Ashu say doo again? Is MM saying mean things about the Bean’s hair? So which news article has Shyamala seeing red? Isn’t the K-Peanut combo hilarious? Krish has worked on Web 2.0 of which rib
tickler this week? And what pulusu has Mahanadi Indira cooked for the day?
I blog-surf for the sheer pleasure of it and no nosy software is going to spoil the fun for me.
First time here…enjoyed this post. Subway delivery for a tiger – nice image!
I don’t have RSS feed of my fav blogs either…may be I should set it up – but it is fun to read randomly…
Second time here and already a new look – I love this new look! Quite different!
@Noon: Welcome and thanks
Yeah, random blog-jumping is a joy in itself, isn’t it?
I wonder all that in spite of using a feed reader. And that does nt stop me from random blog hopping either! The day I find a blog so interesting that I devour the archives for days – thats the day I strike lottery!!
Btw, the Doo phase is almost waning. And thank God for that! But of course all new phases which drive me even more crazy are showing up and making me scream – God please have mercy on me!
Hey Ibavalli – tagged you…