There are more uses for RSS than just syndicating weblogs. You don’t like using RSS to read weblogs, because you like reading posts in their original context. To say ‘RSS destroys context’ seems a bit blunt.
You can now autostart bittorrent downloads using an RSS feed and regular expressions. This is a useful development that has little to do with context.
As for Kinja – it isn’t targetted at weblog powerusers like yourself. It’s targetted at newbies who don’t know what RSS is and don’t want to know. Whether it does so succesfully, I’m not sure, but – again saying ‘Kinja destroys context’ seems a little over the top.
This is probably down to abbreviated phrasing for the sake of linklog brevity.
Read “… Kinja, RSS and so on as ways of keeping up with my favourite weblogs…”.
As a technology I can see that RSS has many valid uses. Less certain about Kinja, though as you say it might just not be my thing; I certainly think it’s very good at what it does (assuming the bugs get fixed), I just don’t like what it does.
There are more uses for RSS than just syndicating weblogs. You don’t like using RSS to read weblogs, because you like reading posts in their original context. To say ‘RSS destroys context’ seems a bit blunt.
You can now autostart bittorrent downloads using an RSS feed and regular expressions. This is a useful development that has little to do with context.
As for Kinja – it isn’t targetted at weblog powerusers like yourself. It’s targetted at newbies who don’t know what RSS is and don’t want to know. Whether it does so succesfully, I’m not sure, but – again saying ‘Kinja destroys context’ seems a little over the top.
This is probably down to abbreviated phrasing for the sake of linklog brevity.
Read “… Kinja, RSS and so on as ways of keeping up with my favourite weblogs…”.
As a technology I can see that RSS has many valid uses. Less certain about Kinja, though as you say it might just not be my thing; I certainly think it’s very good at what it does (assuming the bugs get fixed), I just don’t like what it does.