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Another Nail in the RSS Coffin

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But since I’m holding out for gen 2 of the iPad, the death of my RSS habit was strictly theoretical. Yes, I know that the underlying technology of RSS is alive and well; I’m just talking about my use of an RSS reader.). By drawing its content from a Twitter feed, Paper.li applies a personally meaningful filter to my reading.

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Social Media and the Perils of Monetization

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I was reminded of how tricky this balance can be last Friday when I logged onto my RSS reader. There is one unmentioned change, though, which does: As I discovered last Friday, his RSS feeds are now short summaries instead of the full text of each post. As Schaefer himself says, he’s experimenting with that balance now.

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My Love for Magazines Lies Bleeding

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Another Nail in the RSS Coffin. I fear I will soon be attending a funeral for my old friend, the magazine. Related posts: One Way the Web Will Change the Book. Should B2B Get Excited about the Digital Magazine Consortium?

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The Future of Content Is Not Destination but Identity

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” How he and many others now read content, he argued, was in aggregation: “So if there’s a great Verge article on the Jawbone Up , I will see it in my Twitter stream or in my RSS feed, I’ll read the article, but then I’ll leave the site.”

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More on Destination, Identity, and the Future of Content

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Like my commenter, I read a lot of content in my RSS reader. It’s possible, of course, that I overstated my case considerably, which one is wont to do when blogging. But people don’t always wind up back at the brand to read content. But unlike him, I don’t go back to the source to read most of it.

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A Boring But Mandatory Redesign Announcement

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The Subscribe/Connect/Follow widget to add links for RSS, e-mail subscriptions, and my various social-media identities. I like the minimalist look of this widget much better than the gaudy excess of the official Twitter widget used in the previous design. Sharedaddy to allow readers to share B2B Memes stories more easily.

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