What should I use for a mobile RSS reader on my WM device?

This is in no way meant to be disrespectful, but I’ve never seen the point in getting feeds on a mobile device, or even on a laptop for that matter.

Hear me out for a moment, and maybe I’m just old school but while the newspapers get scooped big time by TV and TV gets scooped by the net these days, there is just something therapeutic about sitting down with a latest copy of a magazine or a newspaper and reading it cover to cover.

Something about reading in depth stories just simply doesn’t translate well to a digital screen. Something to me about the formatting and constant scrolling and clicking just turns me off.

I had a back and forth email fight with the editor of Infoworld about this very topic when they switched from a paper to online format.

My argument is that readership will simply go down. I suspect it has.

What I know is this from my own anecdotal evidence. I would get my weekly subscription(I still get NetworkWorld) and sit down and read it. I would browse every page for articles that interested me, and read those that had pertinence to my job. Many times, I would actually buy the products in question or at least demo them to see how they worked for me and our world. I would gain my innovation from these trade rags.

Long story short….I don’t even go to Infoworld’s website. I’ve got other sites that interest me more and give me innovation(:cough:AskTheAdmin). I wonder how many other people are doing the same as me?

I mean, seriously…what am I supposed to read on the throne, where I do my best thinking???

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I hear where you are coming from BUT (had to be a but) I read the NYT from cover to cover each and every day.

Then I read about 200 feeds daily – now mind you I read some of them through online rss readers as well and i click through to visit the sites of the articles that most interest me.

Sloth I too was just like you – now its my phone I read wherever i go instead of a magazine. That i save for the office in between installs. Just to flip through.

I feel that I ingest all those feeds and get so many different peoples views from so many different categories. Magazines have an editorial group and are marketing you and your moneyz…

I have essentially put together my own MAGAZINE if you will of shit I care about and only I care about. Maybe some people have similar interests as me but my RSS list is customized for ME. I have a feed with my local weather, movies from my favorite theater, flickr stream from my favorite snappers (not always porn!), news from my favorite authors, results of Google or eBay searches, security alerts from random machines or my security feed of still pictures updated on motion.

I mean the possibilities are endless can your MAGAZINES or PAPERS do that? I sense if I had not gotten into the habit of reading the paper @ a young age i would be able to kick that as well.

Only a short time now before all media is digital anywayz… E-ink Anyone??

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This is a good discussion, the use of traditional media/mediums as opposed to the digital age.

I lack the time for the Times. Although I used to read it when I worked for a subsidiary of theirs because it was delivered in the break room for free.

I don’t read too terribly much, but I do read the news paper every day and I do keep up on some news feeds, predominantly from Fark of all places because I need the humor of their headlines interjected into things.

Understand….I read more in college than probably 99% of other students. I guess that is what you get when you’re a history major with an english lit minor! So I don’t read books unless it is something that will impact my career. I surely don’t read for enjoyment!

But I do peruse some sites that I could get on a feed, but the problem is that not everything comes over under the feed! I find that when I used the feeds for a week or so, that I was missing articles/posts that were things that were important to me.

6 of this, half a dozen of the other and to each their own….

I guess I’m a traditionalist, what can I say! If anyone’s ever read what I might have ever wrote on ice hockey goaltending, my other passion, they would see that a traditionalist am I!!!

I just have never been able to stare at a screen, especially one as small as my blackberry, for more than a few minutes reading without it hurting my eyes. And as a researcher by education, the electronically written word doesn’t seem to have the same level of credibility and permanence to me as the digitized one….

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I hear where you are coming from BUT (had to be a but) I read the NYT from cover to cover each and every day.

Then I read about 200 feeds daily – now mind you I read some of them through online rss readers as well and i click through to visit the sites of the articles that most interest me.

Sloth I too was just like you – now its my phone I read wherever i go instead of a magazine. That i save for the office in between installs. Just to flip through.

I feel that I ingest all those feeds and get so many different peoples views from so many different categories. Magazines have an editorial group and are marketing you and your moneyz…

I have essentially put together my own MAGAZINE if you will of shit I care about and only I care about. Maybe some people have similar interests as me but my RSS list is customized for ME. I have a feed with my local weather, movies from my favorite theater, flickr stream from my favorite snappers (not always porn!), news from my favorite authors, results of Google or eBay searches, security alerts from random machines or my security feed of still pictures updated on motion.

I mean the possibilities are endless can your MAGAZINES or PAPERS do that? I sense if I had not gotten into the habit of reading the paper @ a young age i would be able to kick that as well.

Only a short time now before all media is digital anywayz… E-ink Anyone??

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We could probably go back and forth all day and it would also probably be better to agree to disagree BUT…

Strangely I read for pleasure and not only porn! I enjoy a good King or Koontz book. Sometimes I wander back to re-read some of my all time favorites like stranger in a strange land, the art of war or Breakfast of Champions.

But I have been staring @ a computer screen in one form or another since before puberty! I remember late nights on the 300 baud modem with the light from the monochrome monitor was the only thing shedding light on the room! But I digress

Technology Good!

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Sun Tzu ruled.

’nuff said.

Oh and I never disagreed with you, per se, rather I was just opining that I never got it(reading stuff on the computer) and it literally bothered me physically.

As stated before….I find it hard to read, and a tad unsanitary digital copy when I am in the ‘throne room’ dropping the Cosby kids off at the pool, which is where I do my best thinking. :-P

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We could probably go back and forth all day and it would also probably be better to agree to disagree BUT…

Strangely I read for pleasure and not only porn! I enjoy a good King or Koontz book. Sometimes I wander back to re-read some of my all time favorites like stranger in a strange land, the art of war or Breakfast of Champions.

But I have been staring @ a computer screen in one form or another since before puberty! I remember late nights on the 300 baud modem with the light from the monochrome monitor was the only thing shedding light on the room! But I digress

Technology Good!

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