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Ask.com To Shut Down Bloglines
angry tapir writes "Bloglines, the venerable RSS reader, will cease to exist in a few weeks, according to its owner, Ask.com. Users should export their syndicated feeds to another RSS reader, as Bloglines will be shut down on Oct. 1, Ask.com said Friday in a blog post. Ask.com has posted instructions on the Bloglines home page for exporting feeds to another RSS management service."
very interesting.
well not at all.
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So now all ask.com does is push shitty spyware toolbars?
Can you please post some of the long list of sites you claim are shutting down?
I've always wondered what RSS is good for. Now that it is dead or dying, could someone enlighten me.
I suppose Ask.com will stick around to some extent like how Excite.com is still an active website, but no one will ever give it a real look, it's just "there" with the other legacy sites on the web.
Ave Molech Setting
It sounds like you have a lot of interesting predictions, but not much to back them up. Maybe you're the next Nostradamus!
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I think RSS was supposed to be a user generated, local, personal feed aggregator, a sort of "roll your own fark, digg, slashdot" - because face it, those sites really only pull highlighted stories from 10-25 other sites on a weekly basis.
RSS was really neat, and back in the heyday of online webcomics (what, 2001-2005?) RSS was a great tool for cartoonists trying to "spread the word".
Unfortunately, a) people are lazy, and few people want to collect, maintain, and prune their RSS feed list b) the internet can now load news stories faster than people can read them, and c) news aggregators like news.google.com, fark, digg, slashdot went mainstream, and a whole lot of niche blogs which act as news aggregators for more obscure collections of sites (boingboing specializes in scifi writing, steampunk, banannas, and DIY for example) -- why maintain your own RSS stuff when people are actively doing this for you, and probably a better job? A geek can cover 99% of their bases scanning boingboing, slashdot, digg, fark and google news in about 15 minutes, and get (mostly) interesting commentary about the stories, without having to register for the individual news website's forums everytime they want to leave a comment.
moox. for a new generation.
From TFA : "Today RSS is the enabling technology – the infrastructure, the delivery system. RSS is a means to an end, not a consumer experience in and of itself. As a result, RSS aggregator usage has slowed significantly, and Bloglines isn’t the only service to feel the impact.. The writing is on the wall."
Obviously these guys have not heard of Google Reader...
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
Unless you're thinking about writing the XML by hand, any decent feed generator (blog software or whatever) should be able to produce the two versions without any extra effort.
Most podcasts I've seen have both; but it may be because I only listen to technical ones.
That's still one more file you have to manage, one more format you have to have hosted, one more link you must put up per episode, one more thing that can go wrong etc. If it gains you nothing, why do it?
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Dear mods,
The parent post is Informative, not offtopic.
Kthxbye,
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Since when does being a Socialist mean 'someone who has a different opinion than me'?
Dear mods,
The parent post is Insightful, not just Karma-Bonus Modified.
Kthxbye,
Ihmhi
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