High Technocery

2011-02-08

by Darknut

RSS

I don't talk about this as much as I thought I would, but: I am obsessed with webcomics.

I go through periods wihere I, deliberately or not, don't look at webcomics for months at a time. Then maybe I binge. It isn't quite right.

So recently I got curious about RSS and started using it. In case you are oblivious, RSS is a standardized way for a website to publish a summary of all its blog posts or news articles or Twitter Twats or updates of any kind for people to skim through without visiting the site directly. For a long time I didn't get the point, but the benefit of using RSS a lot seems to be simply that I can be notified of all of the updates of many sites all in one place. This is useful for someone who likes to keep up with about 50 webcomics because it means I don't spend time visiting them unless my RSS reader says there is a new update. And even then, sometimes I can read the comic right in the RSS reader.

The problem I'm having now is that I still don't have enough time to read them all. The numbers of new, unread updates start piling up, but at the same time it's so much easier to not go read them now because I know they'll always be there later. So my new friend the RSS reader is basically taunting me.

Does anyone else have this problem?

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