i don’t want to turn this into
“all-rss-autodiscovery-all-the-time”
, but
brent
highlights the
rss
invisibility
thing quiet nicely:
“Here’s how things work for me now. When I’m at a site
I want to subscribe to, I copy-and-paste its home page URL into
NetNewsWire’s subscription dialog. The app then searches for the
RSS feed for that site. If it finds it, great. If it doesn’t find
it then I delete the failed subscription–even if the site actually
does have a hidden-away RSS feed somewhere. I don’t go looking for
it manually: it’s too much trouble. And thus I don’t read that
site.But of course even the above scenario is too many steps: ideally,
when I’m at a site I want to subscribe to, I should be able to
choose a menu command to subscribe to that site. (Or maybe it’s a
bookmarklet, or a contextual menu command–some Subscribe to Site
command that’s always in the same easily-accessible
place.)”
i’ve rambled on about this and similar things
before, in ways that are confusing enough to force innocent
bystanders to email me asking just what the bujeesus i’m talking
about [
morbus,
you know who you are ]. see, i not only want rss to be invisible,
but i want by “blogroll” to be invisible too. and i want them all
to be linked by my bookmarking behavior.
i see a site i like – i bookmark it. that bookmarking process
should form the foundation for rss subscription and blogroll
formation. and no, i don’t have it all figured out, but someday i’m
going to move past just rambling on with incoherent, staccato
statements into crisp, coherent requirements.