{"id":60,"date":"2004-09-06T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T06:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/?p=60"},"modified":"2025-03-20T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T08:43:00","slug":"rss-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/06\/rss-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jenny Levine at The Shifted Librarian<\/a> asks What kind of RSS reader are you?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The Anal Information Junkie – reads every post and gets the shakes when she can’t goes too long without her aggregator.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The Trend Spotter – scans for patterns and digs deeper when a specific topic starts percolating.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The RSS Pack Rat – keeps an archive of selected feeds that can be searched when the pack rat wants to research a topic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The Casual Causal RSS Reader – someone who has a reader (or an account for one somewhere) and has subscriptions, but only reads them when she has time, which is rare, so it normally takes an out-of-the-ordinary event to get the user back to the reader.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Like Jenny, I’m in the first category. I use Bloglines<\/a> to keep track of my feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Jenny Levine at The Shifted Librarian asks What kind of RSS reader are you? Like Jenny, I’m in the first category. I use Bloglines to keep track of my feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"1","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":71,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/12\/downhill-from-the-start\/","url_meta":{"origin":60,"position":0},"title":"Downhill from the start","author":"Brian","date":"12 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I got my first comment spam today. The only thing to be happy about is the delay it has taken. It was on my old blog. 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