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A Non-Scientific Poll: Do You Use RSS?
Wednesday, Apr. 27 2005 | Author: jeremyI am going to be doing some speaking in the next few months about Blogging, RSS, and how they can be used effectively in Marketing and Public Relations. One occasion is going to be at a local user group, the other is going to be an annual conference for a regional PR group.
So, I thought I would pose these questions to the FG nation as an informal poll of some sort. Here it goes.
- Is your job/school of a technical nature (computers, networking, web design, etc.)?
- Do you use RSS to keep up with news and events on the web, or just to keep up with blogs?
- Do you use RSS to keep up with product development from any vendors?
- Do you use a stand-alone newsreader application, or something integrated into another program (Live Bookmarks in Firefox, Newsgator in Outlook, etc.)
- If given a choice, would you choose email updates or an RSS feed?
Thanks ahead of time for responding.
Update: Wow. 66 comments. Definitely more than I expected. I have closed comments on this entry. Thanks for resonding.
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66 Responses for "A Non-Scientific Poll: Do You Use RSS?"
April 27th, 2005 at 9:49 am
11. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes, Bradsoft, Mozilla, etc
4. Yes, FeedDemon
5. RSS!!!
April 27th, 2005 at 9:56 am
21. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes, I keep track of several products, Apple stuff mostly, but my news sites give me information about a lot of new products.
4. Sage on Firefox.
5. RSS.
April 27th, 2005 at 9:58 am
31. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes, a couple third party mac vendors (ranchero)
4. Yes, NewsFire
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 10:09 am
41. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes
4. Yes (Sauce Reader from Synop)
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 10:09 am
51. Yes
2. Both
3. No
4. Standalone, NewsFire for OS X
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 10:20 am
61. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes
4. Mozilla Thunderbird
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 10:30 am
71. Yes, software design.
2. Both news and events and blogs.
3. I use it to keep up with a couple of open source projects. I don’t want any sales hype in my RSS reading.
4. I use Thunderbird’s aggregator.
5. RSS every time.
April 27th, 2005 at 10:36 am
81: Yes
2: Both
3: Yes (mainly antivirus/security updates)
4: The Sage Plugin for Firefox
5 :RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 10:38 am
91. No
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Bloglines.com
5. RSS, always
April 27th, 2005 at 10:38 am
101. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes, Apple, etc.
4. Yes, NetNewsWire
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 10:40 am
111. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes
4. Bloglines via Firefox plugin
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 10:42 am
121) Used to be…may be again some day
2) Both
3) Yes
4) Integrated with Firefox or Bloglines (when I’m on the road and not near my own PC
5) RSS - no doubt og that
April 27th, 2005 at 10:42 am
131: Yes, web development
2: Both (although almost all of the “blogs” I follow are less online diary, more technical/news/political/etc.)
3: Yes
4: Stand-alone (PulpFiction)
5: RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 10:44 am
141. Mostly no.
2. Blogs mostly (Gmail’s atom feed and a Yahoo Group feed are the only exceptions).
3. No.
4. Firefox Sage extension.
5. RSS please.
April 27th, 2005 at 10:46 am
151. yes
2. both, mostly news and events
3. yes
4. Bloglines.com
5. RSS all the way
April 27th, 2005 at 10:48 am
161. Yes.
2. Both.
3. Yes.
4. Standalone. (Net News Wire Lite)
5. RSS. Who want’s to give out their email address if they don’t have to?
April 27th, 2005 at 10:49 am
171. Web development
2. Both - mostly blogs
3. Yes
4. Stand-alone (FeedDemon)
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 10:49 am
181. Yes, currently tech support for a state govt. agency. Starting May 1, full time web dev.
2. All of the above. Everything from this site, news, tech news, blogs, musicians, everything is RSS. Though I also visit the web sites of oabout 75% of what I keep up with on RSS.
3. Yes, CMS tools, open source releases.
4. Bloglines Bloglines Bloglines!
5. RSS. Email is too inundated with crap, and the few things I do get there, I never read.
April 27th, 2005 at 10:51 am
191. Yes.
2. Yup, news, events, blogs, forums, etc.
3. Yup, a few.
4. Stand-alone (FeedDemon).
5. RSS any time.
April 27th, 2005 at 11:10 am
201. No
2. Both
3. Yes
4. Bloglines
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 11:16 am
211. Yes
2. Both
3. No, although quite a few of the technical blogs and news sites often have this information on (Slashdot, for example)
4. Bloglines
5. RSS, definitely
April 27th, 2005 at 11:32 am
22Yes
Both
No
Liferea
RSS!!!
April 27th, 2005 at 11:33 am
231. Yes
2. I use RSS for both
3. No
4. Live Bookmarks in Firefox
5. RSS without a doubt
April 27th, 2005 at 11:45 am
241. Yep.
2. Both
3. Not really. Just what i see in news sites
4.I used to use SharpReader and I liked it alot, but it started getting buggy, grabbing the wrong feeds for the wrong sites and sometimes doing two or three copies of a given site and not doing other sites at all. Switched to the Sage plugin for Firefox.
5. God no. I get something like a thousand emails a day (counting spam, of course), last thing I need is to double that with updates.
April 27th, 2005 at 11:47 am
251. Yes [although I'm in aerospace ;)].
2. Both.
3. No.
4. Standalone.
5. RSS.
April 27th, 2005 at 11:49 am
261. Yes
2. Yes
3. No
4. Web-based (newsgator online)
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 11:52 am
271. Yes
2. Mostly blogs (I find using sites like ESPN who update 40+ times a day hard to follow via RSS)
3. Yes
4. Bloglines
5. RSS, a thousand times over
April 27th, 2005 at 11:56 am
281. Yes
2. Yes
3. I don’t know if any of the software vendors provides an RSS feed. Don’t think so.
4. Bloglines
5. RSS!
April 27th, 2005 at 11:56 am
291. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes
4. FeedDemon
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 12:01 pm
301. Yes
2. Both (lots of news sites, a few blogs, a few “deal” sites, and of course, ForeverGeek!)
3. Not really, but I might if any of the vendors had anything interesting to share!
4. Live bookmarks and RSSNewsTicker from http://www.rssnewsticker.com/ (freeware). I can’t stand just RSS readers that look like email clients (too much information overload) - I may as well be using email in that case!
5. RSS - email is not a good way to announce things!
April 27th, 2005 at 12:07 pm
311. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes
4. No (I use bloglines)
5. Both RSS or Atom are fine
April 27th, 2005 at 12:12 pm
321. yes
2. both (anything that i find interesting with an rss feed gets picked up)
3. yes. (google/flickr/redhat for example)
4. integrated (sage via firefox)
5. email updates are so 1995, use rss damnit!
April 27th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
331. Nope
2. Both
3. Nope
4. Sage-Extension for Firefox
5. RSS definitely
April 27th, 2005 at 12:24 pm
341. yes
2. both
3. yes
4. mozilla Thunderbird
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 12:33 pm
351. Yep
2. Both
3. A few
4. NetNewsWire…stays open all day long.
5. Can’t imagine getting all those emails. With all the feeds I subscribe to, that would be in the neighborhood of 1000 emails a day…
April 27th, 2005 at 12:41 pm
361. Yes (Web Design)
2. Both.
3. No.
4. “Something integrated into another program (Live Bookmarks in Firefox)”
5. RSS, no question
April 27th, 2005 at 12:45 pm
371. Yes
2. Both
3. No
4. Sage plugin for firefox
5. RSS feed, no doubt
April 27th, 2005 at 12:59 pm
381. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes
4. RssBandit
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 1:12 pm
391. Yes. I write about technology for the manufacturing and construction industries.
2. I use RSS for both blogs and web sites that use RSS, to keep with with business as well as personal interests.
3. No, but I would if they offered it.
4. NewsGator, integrated into Outlook, and RSS as bookmarks in Firefox.
5. RSS.
April 27th, 2005 at 1:14 pm
401. Yup.
2. Both.
3. Nope.
4. Feed Demon.
5. RSS.
April 27th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
411. Yes
2. both
3. No
4. Feedreader
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
421. Yes
2. Both
3. No
4. No, I use Bloglines
5. RSS Feed, fo shizzle
April 27th, 2005 at 1:28 pm
431. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes
4. I use a PHP tool I sort of wrote. (See http://www.freepgs.com/joshdick/news)
5. An RSS feed.
April 27th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
441. Yes
2. BOth
3. Yes
4. Bloglines, so I can read my feeds no matter what computer I’m on.
5. RSS please.
April 27th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
451. Yes
2. both
3. No
4. Klipfolio
5. 100% RSS no question
April 27th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
461. yes
2. both
3. no
4. bloglines.com
5. rss. email gets no love :(
April 27th, 2005 at 2:21 pm
471.Yes
2.|Both
3.No
4. Thunderbird.
5. RSS. I liek to keep email as a social thing “Real mail from real people”
April 27th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
481. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes
4. Sage (Firefox)
5. RSS feed.
April 27th, 2005 at 2:48 pm
491. Yes, desktop support tech.
2. News but not blogs, don’t realy read them.
3. Yes Firefox but they never update the feed…
4. Live bookmarks and Sage.
5. RSS over email.( what the above poster said)
You are welcome.
April 27th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
501) yes
2) yes, news and blogs
3) yes
4) bloglines
5) feed
April 27th, 2005 at 5:28 pm
511. No
2. Both
3. Yes: Mozilla, Red Hat, and Apple, mostly
4. Bloglines mostly with only a couple Live Bookmarks
5. RSS, definately
April 27th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
521. No.
2. Mostly news, some blogs too
3. yep
4. Bloglines (online aggregator)
5. i don’t really care, but rss.
April 27th, 2005 at 5:49 pm
531) Yup
2) Yeah
3) Yuh huh
4) Bloglines and Feed Demon
5) RSS…I don’t need anything else in my mailbox :/
April 27th, 2005 at 6:13 pm
541. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes
4. Sage extension for FireFox
5. RSS
April 27th, 2005 at 6:28 pm
55April 27th, 2005 at 6:36 pm
56April 27th, 2005 at 7:07 pm
571. Yes
2. Both.
3. Yes.
4. Stand alone (FeedDemon)
5. RSS.
April 27th, 2005 at 7:33 pm
581. Yes.
2. Both.
3. No.
4. Firefox.
5. RSS.
April 27th, 2005 at 8:38 pm
591. No - High School
2. Both
3. Yes
4. Standalon, SharpReader
5. RSS - That’s the whole point of it!
April 27th, 2005 at 8:40 pm
601. Retired engineer
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Use Sharp Reader
5. RSS feeder
April 27th, 2005 at 8:52 pm
611. yes
2. I use RSS to keep up with news and events (and blogs)
3. yes
4. stand-alone newsreader (NetNewsWire; Mac OS X)
5. RSS feed
April 27th, 2005 at 11:08 pm
621. not really (mass communication)
2. mostly blogs (including community/group blogs. is Slashdot news?)
3. no.
4. Live Bookmarks in Firefox.
5. RSS, given the high rate of updates. I still suscribe to e-mail headlines just to keep a copy.
April 28th, 2005 at 5:00 am
631. At High School
2. I use RSS within Thunderbird for blogs, and Firefox’s live bookmarks for news (neowin, /. etc.)
3. Yes- Trillian.
4. See 2
5. RSS feed
April 28th, 2005 at 6:09 am
641. Yes
2. Both
3. Yes
4. Bloglines.com
5. RSS feed
April 28th, 2005 at 9:12 am
651. Yes
2. Just blogs
3. No but I would like to, if it were done well.
4. bloglines.com
5. RSS
April 28th, 2005 at 9:47 am
661. Yes.
2. Blog.
3. Nope.
4. RssReader on Windows, NewsNetWire on Mac
5. RSS all the way!