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Wednesday, March 20, 2002

After thinking about it on my bike ride to work I've decided to unsubscribe from my one New York TImes RSS feed. The news aggregator is not the way to read the New York Times. In some ways, the news aggregator may be worse for the New York Times than it is for weblogs. The proper way to read the New York Times is, as with weblogs, in its proper context. For the New York Times, that would be printed on dead wood. My wife and I spent a summer at Cornell in Ithaca, NY. We decided to subscribe to the Sunday edition of the New York Times. It took a whole week to read the thing. And not just because there is so much to read. Every story is so well written that you want to read it from beginning to end. I just don't get that from an aggregated list of NYT news items. Sorry. Oh, and the New York Times makes particularly good reading when you are looking for something to take with you to the bathroom. comment ()  9:53:19 AM  #   I just subscribed to an RSS feed. I had unsubscribed to all my feeds a few weeks ago and I've been enjoying an RSS-free life. But today UserLand announced that you can now subscribe to New York Times headlines. I think headline news is probably what RSS was meant to be used for . It's weblogs you don't want to subscribe to. So I tried, as an experiment, mind you, subscribing to the Technology feed. And I immediately had about 20 items in my news aggregator. Talk about news overload. I'm not sure I'm going to like this feature. comment ()  7:39:49 AM  #

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