RSS Watch
3:04 pm May 3rd, 2007 by Sal Cangeloso
Some personal observations from the RSS feeds I read every day…
New- recently added
- Gamasutra- great site, the best gaming-related writing on the web
- Pocketables- they don’t update very often, but they look at a lot of cool gear
- comScore- not a lot of content, but they do a great job with what they post. lots of interesting firefox vs. IE stuff so far
Hot- feeds I have really been liking lately
- O’Reilly Radar- very good blog, lots of quality insights, very reasonable frequency
- Jupiter- Mike Gartenburg do an excellent job. Very pertinent postings and they keep up on the news
Not- ones that have not been great and/or I have been thinking of dropping
- Seeking Alpha- Too many postings (averaging 64.4 posts a day, that is with the weekends) and they now they do partial feeds, plus lots of duplicate content
- Kotaku- way too much posting, averaging 44 posts a day, not as good as Joystiq
- Found+Read- Om’s new site, not much content, not very interesting when it comes. this one is going the way of gigagamez…
Hi Sal, sorry to hear you are considering dropping our RSS feed.
Please note that we designed our RSS feeds to be used in a more focused way - that is, to encourage subscribing not to ‘all articles’ (which can be overwhelming given our volume), but rather to subscribe to the sectors, themes or stocks that you are most interested in.
Also, please note that you can still get full articles from us by e-mail.
Best,
Mick Weinstein
Seeking Alpha
Mick,
Thanks for the comment. I think you are right about the feed thing- there are definitely a few categories I don’t need…
Rather than add like 10 feeds to my reader I put together a yahoo pipe so I can combine them to one feed and filter out what I don’t want etc.
I still need to tweak it, but you can see it here:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=8qLFvEf62xGfF1NAnkartA
As for the feeds- have you seen a significant rise in commenting since moving to partials? I am guessing this was one of the main goals, but most articles I read still don’t get comments…
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