{"id":1164,"date":"2009-05-11T00:47:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T08:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/links-5-10-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T00:47:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T08:47:33","slug":"links-5-10-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/links-5-10-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: 5-10-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.25hoursaday.com\/weblog\/2009\/05\/05\/RSSReadersModeledAfterEmailClientsAreFundamentallyBroken.aspx\">Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life &#8211; RSS readers modeled after email clients are fundamentally broken<\/a><br \/>      The problem is that the RSS readers I use regularly, Google Reader and RSS Bandit, take their inspiration from email clients which is the wrong model for consuming casual content like blogs. Whenever I fire up an email application like Outlook or Hotmail it presents me with a list of tasks I must complete in the form of messages that need responses, work items, meeting invitations, spam that needs to deleting, notifications related to commercial\/financial transactions that I need to be aware of and so on. Reading email is a chore where you are constantly taunted by the BOLD unread messages indicator silently nagging you about the stuff you haven&rsquo;t done yet.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/rss\">rss<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/email\">email<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/aggregation\">aggregation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/informationoverload\">informationoverload<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/rssreader\">rssreader<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life &#8211; RSS readers modeled after email clients are fundamentally broken The problem is that the RSS readers I use regularly, Google Reader and RSS Bandit, take their inspiration from email clients which is the wrong model for consuming casual content like blogs. Whenever I fire up an email application like Outlook &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/links-5-10-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links: 5-10-2009<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}