Apr 29
Whenever I talk about RSS I mention– in passing– its benefits over browsing to individual sites when utilizing a low-bandwidth connection. But like many others, I am completely spoiled by high powered connections at work and at home.
On my second day of using a slow, satellite-hop-in-the-middle-chewing-the-clock, dial-up connection I have started to remember what dial-up is like and have a greater appreciation for those who take the time to provide substantial RSS feeds.
Sites without RSS– or sites with only excerpts in their RSS feeds– are going unread. Again. RSS, Atom, whatever. My time is simply too valuable to waste on sites that could have it but want me to be required to “experience” their site instead of just enjoy their content.
Welcome to my world. Just to prove I’m completely insane, I sometimes listen to streaming radio. On dialup. At that point, they are asking me not just to sit and wait while their entire monthly archive loads, just to see the last five words of a twenty five word post, they are putting skips in my music to do it. Next!