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Why I Don't Use RSS Anymore

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Re: Why I Don't Use RSS Anymore

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Post by Nic0 »

zachgreen wrote: post #2

The high number of grammatical errors caused me to quit reading in the middle.

Thank you for pointing this problem. I started writing in English only recently. I hope it will be a good practice, and help me with grammatical errors.

Any tips to improve with this?

Re: Why I Don't Use RSS Anymore

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Post by toddh »

Then you are missing out and are letting the masses decide what you read. Technical experts have highly targeted RSS feeds and thus highly relevant information. Once you give up on that you've really just given up.

Re: Why I Don't Use RSS Anymore

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Post by andrewcooke »

Nic0 wrote: post #5
zachgreen wrote: post #2

The high number of grammatical errors caused me to quit reading in the middle.

Thank you for pointing this problem. I started writing in English only recently. I hope it will be a good practice, and help me with grammatical errors. Any tips to improve with this?

write more :o) it's the only way you'll get better and it's a good way of saying "fuck you" to those that cricise...

[other things i do include silently talking to myself in the foreign language while i am out walking (describe what is happening) and trying to listen/read in an "aware" way - for example, when listening to someone speak, try to consciously note the gender of the nouns they are using (doesn't work for english, but you get the idea...). but the most important thing is practice - my spanish got much, much worse when i started working from home rather than in a spanish-speaking company]

Re: Why I Don't Use RSS Anymore

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Post by amorphid »

Nic0 wrote: post #5
zachgreen wrote: post #2

The high number of grammatical errors caused me to quit reading in the middle.

Thank you for pointing this problem. I started writing in English only recently. I hope it will be a good practice, and help me with grammatical errors. Any tips to improve with this?

Keep practicing English to improve your English :)

I'm getting burned out on RSS, too. I think the burnout started for me when TechCrunch decided that publishing every single idea that came to mind was somehow a good use of my reading time.

Re: Why I Don't Use RSS Anymore

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Post by Tomis »

Depends on what you're interested in. I was once subscribed (Opera's RSS client, just for the record) to feeds with a high content volume (Ars Technica, space.com), which is basically unmanageable because it leads to thousands of unread messages.

I scrapped those feeds and kept the ones that post new content rarely enough for me to forget about them but care for enough to want to know immediately when this happens.

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