This blog recently entered into its 5th year of existence, and I was thinking how much feed readers have changed everything: Initially I would be worried about not posting in case somebody visited the site in vain. And now: Everybody will just see it in their reader, won’t they? Are blog posting pauses a problem anymore?
Are you reading this via a feed?
I’m reading via feeder. Pauses aren’t so much a problem, but when the blog drops off for a time I wonder if it was caused by a change of feed address. But no, we’re reading, keep posting.
I read via feed. It does make me lazier. I use shorter sentences. Also, I’m less likely to post comments.
I WAS reading via a feed, but had to click through to your actual blog because half the post was cut off (actually more like the last 8 words). That’s actually really annoying.
I agree with Michael, you should make sure your full post is in the RSS feed.
Also, it’s all about google Reader. ;)
Alright – I turned on the option to make the RSS feed show the full post. It may take a while to show up for older posts.
I actually visit your blog about once a day. It’s part of my routine, so I think nothing of it if there’s no new post, I just skip on to the next site.
Feed via Google Reader.
I wouldn’t feel too bad, though. It’s been since December I last made a real post on mine. ;)
Keep it up, and we’ll keep following!
(Incidentally, I’d like to discuss with you your new game, sometime. I hope it wouldn’t be a nuisance if I emailed you?)
Daniel, feel free to mail.
Thanks all – I will start making real posts now!
You think I’d come by here if it wasn’t for Safari nagging me that you’d been busy with something?
To be totally honest, I even dislike feeds. It makes me add more and more and eventually just not reading it because it gets to much. I know, it’s just me being silly, but that won’t make me like them.
I got a few blogs in my bookmarks-toolbar and whenever I’ve got time I just click those buttons and see if there’s anything new. Simple as that :).
Does email make people lazy? It seems to me that a distribution channel (as opposed to a location-based news service) just frees you to speak when you have something to say. That could be ten times a day or once a year. People more interested in influencing breaking events and keeping a high Technorati rating will find that unacceptable, but I actually pay more attention to people who blog less quantity and more quality – I really wouldn’t mind (or call it ‘lazy’) if all of my sources reduced their output by 50%, to be honest.
Feed, ofcourse.
And I wholeheartedly agree with Jeremy.
Although bloggers with a lot of quality stuff to say stress me out as well. Just because they blog often and ALOT doesn’t mean they’re content irrelevant, take Henry Jenkins, for example. But good golly it’s exhausting!
So bloggers that blog every now and then are much appreciated. It’s a breath of fresh air and I get much more joy out of reading a blog that gets updated with spaces inbetween.
So I welcome the new laziness! I think when we got rid of the pressure to keep updating blogs because of fear of loosing readers – we ended up with a lot more quality blogs – at least on my blogroll.
Right – 611 unread feeds to go! Woo hoo!
I like the idea that rare postings make for quality blogs, though I think many people are taking it too far.
This makes me think of an inverse RSS pull mechanism: As a reader, you should be able to solicit interesting blog postings, and as a blogger my feed puller should alert me that someone is looking for something to read?
Jesper, I think you just invented RSS 3.0