1. Today’s the day I unsubscribed from @LifeHacker’s RSS feed. Here’s why.

    I love LifeHacker.

    I have been reading the site for years and, for the last several, have done so through my RSS reader. But, for a while now, I’ve stopped reading it and today, I finally unsubscribed in NNW. It felt great. :)

    There are a couple of reasons why I unsubscribed and, if anyone is interested, here they are:

    • First, and this is not really a bad thing, there are just too many posts. Every time I launch NNW there seem to be 120 unread posts in LifeHacker’s feed. I am fine with leaving posts unread or bulk-marking them all as read and moving on. However, 120 posts is to many to sort through to find the ones I want to read so I ended up reading none of them.
    • Secondly, they don’t put the full text of their posts into the feed. Blog authors take note: if you’re not going to let me read the entire site via RSS, don’t offer me an RSS feed. Your l33t web-design skills are not worth the inconvenience of leaving NNW. I suspect this is an ad-revenue-based decision and, if it is, too bad. Find some other way to finance the site or cut some costs. Or, if you must, put ads in the feed. Making me come to the site to read the content defeats the purpose of RSS.
    • Finally, many of their posts are nothing more than pointers to audio or video files. These do not belong in an RSS feed… or perhaps they belong in a separate one. I don’t want to waste bandwidth and disk space on these files and I certainly am not going to read stream them to my iPhone in line at the supermarket. Different content deserves different formats. Get with the program.

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