Is RSS changing our reading habits?
The other day as I was riding the train from work I met an old college buddy of mine and we began to talk about cabbages & kings - the things that matter to us. In between the discussion of family and friends our talked drifted reading newspapers and he asked me if I still read them. I immediately replied in the negative. Then it dawned on me how things have changed.
There was a time when one started the day reading the newspaper. Whether it be the funnies, the news and the editorial. One read it. And I remember a time when the family was subscribed to more than one newspaper. And not only the newspaper, but magazines and tabloid sheets as well. There was one point when I was weaned out of this habit and it was during college when our dormitory that was several kilometers or miles from the society had only one copy of the newspaper and this had to be shared among the students who lived in that dorm. Around three hundred of them plus one. So it was no surprise that each day only a single page of the newspaper would remain.
How did this happen? Nobody knows. Maybe a group of students fought over it. And then it could be that someone decided the old and venerable art of origami. Who cares. What is important is the a number of people were deprived of the opportunity to read the paper.
Today, As I wake up one of the first thing I do is to open the computer and go to the Internet. From there I read my latest email and check up on my feed reader.Rarely do I read the newspeper. And this is because of the RSS feed
Around one hour I probably read most of the news I need to know.Using a feed reader simplifies things for me. To the point I have stop reading the newspaper. And it seem more and more people are doing it.
How about you?
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