Este artículo de Farhad Manjoo, periodista tecnológico de la revista Slate, es sobre los lectores RSS y como son innecesarios. Es decir, que el escritor ha encontrado una manera de seguir todos sus sitios preferidos sin usar ningún lector RSS. Me divertí mucho leyendolo. Aunque he usado Google Reader y My Yahoo! durante unos años, nunca he sido una usuaria habitual. Normalmente, los ignoro; a veces, me dan un sentimiento desgradable de dejar mis responsabilidades, de ser floja, y convierten algo que debe ser divertido - encontrar cosas nuevas y interesantes en la Web - en una tarea tan aburrida como ver mi e-mail de trabajo (cuando tenía trabajo).
La estrategia de Manjoo es muy simple: organizar sus marcadores dentro del navegador según cuantas veces a la semana los lee, y usar el botón medio del raton para abrirlos en pestañas diferentes. (Si no sabes lo que pasa cuando abres una enlace con el botón medio, hazlo. Te esperaré.)
Mi problema con RSS siempre ha sido así: ya sé que sitios quiero visitar. Sé que sitios voy a visitar. Voy a recordar un sitio que tiene información interesante y útil. ¿Porque, entonces, necesito un lector RSS para darme la lata? Hasta ahora, he utilizado Delicious y la historia de mi navegador para ir a donde quiero, pero voy a utilizar la estrategia de Manjoo a ver como funciona.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Kill Your RSS Reader
This article by Slate magazine's tech guy, Farhad Manjoo, is all about how RSS readers, championed by many as the only way to stay up-to-date on all your fave blogs and sites, are really unnecessary, not to mention annoying. I loved reading it. I have designed two RSS pages, on Yahoo! and on Google, over the past couple years, but I've never become a dedicated user of them. At best, I ignore them; at worst, they give me an unpleasant feeling of slackery and laziness, making something that should be fun - finding cool info on the web - as much of a chore as checking my work email (well, back when I had a job).
Manjoo's strategy for keeping up with the Joneses is a more sophisticated version of what I already do: he organizes the bookmarks in his browser according to how often he visits a site, and then opens them all up in the same window using the middle mouse button. (If you don't know what happens when you click on a link with the middle mouse button, go try it. I'll wait.)
My problem with RSS readers has always been: I already know what sites I want to visit. I already know what sites I'm going to visit. If a site has useful and interesting information, I'm unlikely to forget about it, so why do I need an RSS reader nagging me to do it? Until now I've been relying more on Delicious and my browser history to get me where I want to go, but I'm going to try this bookmark strategy. Let's see how it works.
Manjoo's strategy for keeping up with the Joneses is a more sophisticated version of what I already do: he organizes the bookmarks in his browser according to how often he visits a site, and then opens them all up in the same window using the middle mouse button. (If you don't know what happens when you click on a link with the middle mouse button, go try it. I'll wait.)
My problem with RSS readers has always been: I already know what sites I want to visit. I already know what sites I'm going to visit. If a site has useful and interesting information, I'm unlikely to forget about it, so why do I need an RSS reader nagging me to do it? Until now I've been relying more on Delicious and my browser history to get me where I want to go, but I'm going to try this bookmark strategy. Let's see how it works.
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