{"id":2802,"date":"2010-12-09T06:23:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T22:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2010-12-09T06:23:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T22:23:28","slug":"rss-reader-use-increasing-decreasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/rss-reader-use-increasing-decreasing\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS reader use – increasing, decreasing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How would you answer these questions:<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. How long ago did you look at your RSS reader?<\/li>\n
  2. How often do you do so?<\/li>\n
  3. Why has this changed from 2 years ago, if at all ?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    I was idly wondering whether there is still a point to setting an exercise in my library tech unit that gets students to subscribe and watch a few RSS feeds. I send out the message above on three of my Twitter accounts and obviously touched a nerve – around thirty people responded. (Not everyone answered each bit of the question).<\/p>\n

    My prediction? Twitter had turned RSS readers into roadkill. No-one was looking at RSS any more and anyhow, no-one is blogging any more.<\/p>\n

    Nope. 20 out of 33 check their RSS reader at least daily. Yes, around a third (31%) reported looking at the readers less than 2 years ago. 24% reported no change, but 27% reported an increase.<\/p>\n

    I know the people who responded and I guess that about 1\/3 of those who were looking more did not really use RSS a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

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    Many of the comments attribute the way they use Twitter to a decrease or to a change in RSS reading patterns. Some now read more, but by skimming headlines. Others use RSS for “newspaper style” in-depth reading and Twitter for the more shallow quick links. Generally people reported RSS reading as a more social activity than two years ago – either obtaining new feeds via Twitter, pushing out a lot of links from their readers to Twitter, or just sharing via their RSS reader. Changes \u00a0– of circumstances, jobs, interests and the patterns of blogging for the feeds they had followed – \u00a0all were reported to change RSS reading habits.<\/p>\n

    So – the RSS exercise stays on the course, but maybe I should consider emphasising the sharing possibilities that using an RSS reader can involve?<\/p>\n

    The comment I most enjoyed, however, came from one of my followers immediately AFTER he had answered my question. His comment:<\/p>\n

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    I just sent the best out of context tweet ever.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    … because he had just tweeted:<\/p>\n

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    @libsmatter<\/a> 1 hr ago, many times a day, more than I did 2 yrs ago because now I have a smart phone<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Oh dear. I then read back over some of the other responses, equally out of context. I’m sorry…. I laughed….<\/p>\n

    (AND A BONUS FOR THE COMMENT BOX BELOW – DID YOU READ THIS POST VIA RSS READER OR FROM A TWITTER LINK… ?)<\/p>\n

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