{"id":824,"date":"2012-03-08T22:58:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T04:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=824"},"modified":"2012-03-04T23:25:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T05:25:21","slug":"why-im-using-a-rss-reader-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/824","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m using a RSS reader (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago, I moved from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/346\">personal handwritten RSS reader to Bloglines<\/a>.\u00a0 Then, a few years ago, I stopped using Bloglines (before <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.merchantcircle.com\/2010\/11\/your-bloglines-service-is-here-to-stay.html\">they were bought<\/a>).\u00a0 I had too many feeds on Bloglines and was spending less time on the computer after work.\u00a0 I also had some big personal happenings taking a lot of time, and was burnt out on learning new technologies.<\/p>\n<p>So, for a couple of years, I read blogs occasionally, but didn&#8217;t subscribe to them in a reader.\u00a0 The ones that really spoke to me were either visited regularly (by memory) or subscribed to via email (and often unsubscribed quickly).<\/p>\n<p>But recently, I have been consuming a lot more content.\u00a0 I think there are a number of reasons for this, but the biggest is that the household has an iPad. The iPad is crappy for creating content, but is fantastic for consuming it.\u00a0 I also enjoy the ability to email articles with the tap of the finger.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I found myself visiting the same seven or eight sites over and over again, to see if there was anything new posted.\u00a0 After the third go-around, I mentally kicked myself and said, &#8216;that&#8217;s what an RSS reader is for!&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>By happenstance, I saw an article on HackerNews about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsblur.com\/post\/18561597889\/going-full-time\">the NewsBlur founder<\/a> around the same time, and decided to check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsblur.com\/\">NewsBlur<\/a> out.\u00a0 I actually appreciate the limited number of blogs available on the free version of NewsBlur&#8211;I hope that will help me avoid the blog overflow that occured last time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago, I moved from a personal handwritten RSS reader to Bloglines.\u00a0 Then, a few years ago, I stopped using Bloglines (before they were bought).\u00a0 I had too many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-useful-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}