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Posted 9 Apr. 2008 at 10:12 am | Permalink
On the one hand, I don’t know how anybody follows blogs without a feed reader. Most of the time, I even read the entries in just the reader.
On the other hand, what would seem like an advantage–learning almost immediately that someone has published a new blog entry–has the disadvantage of letting me read the post before anyone else comments. For example, I missed the fact that my cousin has recommended to my dad that he enter a life of crime, all because it happened on a week’s-old post.
Posted 9 Apr. 2008 at 10:26 am | Permalink
I agree about feed readers. I seldom look visit the site itself, unless the feed only offers snippets.
If you want to be up on all the latest advice from your cousin, you could subscribe to the comments. In my feed reader, I give the same label to all the comments feeds and only read the comments from people I know.