January 10, 2007 at 23:00RSS is what limits us
For a long time I could not get myself to start using RSS. Everyone around wrote about how conveniently healthy it was, but I was waiting for something ... It was necessary to spend time and effort to install some kind of reader, or register in some service that provides these services ... And so laziness ... And somewhere, somewhere, the thought “what if everything isn’t so simple there ... and where to get these feeds ...” hunger hung out somewhere else - and other crap. But somehow at the beginning of autumn ...
... I forced myself to connect Google Reader.
After that came the pink time. I added a bunch of feeds on topics that interest me, and almost every day I found new ones. I appreciated the time saved - now there was no need to take turns opening a bunch of bookmarks to make sure that there are no updates on this blog today. I was surprised at those resources that still have only a mailing list. I was angry at those resources that do not give updates via RSS. They just infuriated me. What is it - I have to go to the site every time, instead of just looking to see if there is something new there or not? Unheard of! :)
But after 4 months, an understanding of one strange thing came to me. Looking around the days that have passed since the RSS reader was connected, I saw that my horizons were clearly limited to the information that I receive with its help. I don’t have time to climb sites and search engines before, looking for grains of information on topics that interest me - and simultaneously digging through a bunch of third-party information (which sometimes turned out to be more valuable in the end than the one I was looking for). I stopped clicking on interesting banners that led me to another plane of the Internet. My daily rations have become much more predictable and monotonous. Yes, now I get "high-calorie" food for the mind on strictly defined and interesting topics for me. But this food became fresh without the informational garbage that accompanies regular surfing on the net.
I can’t refuse the use of RSS - it’s too (is he? Is it?) Convenient. But the feeling of isolation of the world that I built, fenced off by the walls of RSS feeds from the rest of the Internet, now does not leave me.
Such a strange thing.
... I forced myself to connect Google Reader.
After that came the pink time. I added a bunch of feeds on topics that interest me, and almost every day I found new ones. I appreciated the time saved - now there was no need to take turns opening a bunch of bookmarks to make sure that there are no updates on this blog today. I was surprised at those resources that still have only a mailing list. I was angry at those resources that do not give updates via RSS. They just infuriated me. What is it - I have to go to the site every time, instead of just looking to see if there is something new there or not? Unheard of! :)
But after 4 months, an understanding of one strange thing came to me. Looking around the days that have passed since the RSS reader was connected, I saw that my horizons were clearly limited to the information that I receive with its help. I don’t have time to climb sites and search engines before, looking for grains of information on topics that interest me - and simultaneously digging through a bunch of third-party information (which sometimes turned out to be more valuable in the end than the one I was looking for). I stopped clicking on interesting banners that led me to another plane of the Internet. My daily rations have become much more predictable and monotonous. Yes, now I get "high-calorie" food for the mind on strictly defined and interesting topics for me. But this food became fresh without the informational garbage that accompanies regular surfing on the net.
I can’t refuse the use of RSS - it’s too (is he? Is it?) Convenient. But the feeling of isolation of the world that I built, fenced off by the walls of RSS feeds from the rest of the Internet, now does not leave me.
Such a strange thing.