RSS: How well does this really work for sites that produce large amounts of daily content?
Having RSS built into your email client with Thunderbird is a dream and one less application to worry about. For me, RSS is nice to have until the sites you are subscribed to produces new content multiple times a day. When 5-10 of your subscriptions are updating content 5-10 times a day, you can easily spend more time on this then email. When I open Thunderbird and see 30-50 new items, I found myself just deleting everything and not reading anything.
So I scaled back the subscriptions and took advantage of the "Open in Tabs" feature in Firefox. By creating a folder called "Daily" and moving the former RSS sites there, I can open them all at once each morning, skim over the recent titles and move on. Sure I'll miss posts and not see everyone but it's better then being overwhelmed and just skipping them all.
I know of Live Bookmarks and have a few setup. It's a cool feature and seems to be a good alternative however I'll reserve judgement until I actually use them on a daily basis.
My RSS subscription list now consists of items thats harder to check daily. Things like replies to weblogs and photo galleries that are not updated on a regular schedule.
Comments
Ryan C. - December 4, 2004 12:57 pm
My situation w/ TB was similar to yours at first.. then I eventually scaled back the feeds I read in TB to about 8-10 of the most important (and/or most frequently updated), and left the rest (about 20-30) to read each evening in Safari, using its "open in tabs" feature.
I prefer Safari over FF for this task for a (very small) reason: You can turn bookmark-bar "daily" folder into a button that launches all the bookmarks.. don't have to scroll down the menu to find that "open in tabs" link. One click on the bookmark bar, as opposed to 3 (or so.)
Perhaps this feature exists in FF and I'm just missing it?
Denis Morrison - December 5, 2004 2:09 pm
>When 5-10 of your subscriptions are updating content 5-10 times a day, you can easily spend more time on this then email. When I open Thunderbird and see 30-50 new items, I found myself just deleting everything and not reading anything.
Looks like I am not the only one having this problem. Thank god! ;)
I'll try your advice.