[Web4lib] Are e-mail discussion lists still relevant?

[Edward Spodick]

I'll go along with this for keeping up on a lot of blog and news sites, with the caveat they the RSS feed MUST contain the full content.  Those which only include a 'teaser' requiring you to go to the website for the rest of what is interesting are annoying - yes, they are better than having to vsit each site to see if there is something of interest to you, as the feed item took care of that.  But if it is not a full feed, then I still have to take the extra step, which may not be available if I downloaded feed content offline.

I love RSS - I subscribe to several hundred feeds, not counting the feeds for the 50 or so podcasts I follow.  Any which does not contain the full content gets dropped really fast - unless it is for a personal friend or family member. :)

-Spode


At 8:23 AM -0700 7/2/09, Walt Crawford wrote:
>I thought David's comment was right on the money. RSS solves the "too many
>places to go to" problem.
>
>It's not a universal solution any more than email is. There are no universal
>solutions. For highly-interactive websites that you're actually involved
>with on a daily or weekly basis, I'd never use RSS. But for things like most
>liblogs these days, where something pops up once or twice a week, it's
>ideal.
>
>I never quite understood "Different horses for different courses" but I
>think that applies here.
>
>-walt crawford-
>
>On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree Karen. I even tried to use http://www.cocomment.com/ but found it
>> did not help keep me in the conversation. The application just was not
>> effective enough in its capabilities.
>>
>> RSS is great if you a a lurker OR is the website offers a RSS for comments
>> directly.
>>
>> Brian Gray
>> mindspiral at gmail.com
>> bcg8 at case.edu
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > If you are engaging with peers, colleagues, friends, family, etc. (rather
>> > than simply having things "come to you"), then RSS is not quite as
>> > effective. It may point you to ongoing conversations but you will still
>> > have
>> > to use another tool to participate.
>> >
>> > I have found myself disengaging with RSS in some instances and going back
>> > to
>> > email because it was a more effective tool. That even includes some
>> > "read-only" behavior, such as commits for an open source project, news
>> > flashes, etc.
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