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rss reader 2.0

Scoble was always one of the staunchest proponents of full-text RSS feeds out there. Back when I was a pro-blogger trying to crank out lots of posts in a day (or hour), I agreed with him. It was much more helpful (and better for my custom, local feed searches) if the feeds were full-text. I wasn’t as hard core as Scoble and others by not subscribing or unsubscribing to partial text feeds, but I preferred them. Sounds like Scoble has changed his tune of late though:

In 2006 I wrote that [...]

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Earlier yesterday I wrote a post lamenting the state of RSS readers–RSS Readers–Why have you forsaken us? Part 1: Setting the stage–and I didn’t have a solid idea of how RSS readers could improve themselves. I couldn’t put my head around a better UI or workflow (besides one-click subscribe), then that afternoon I hit this piece of news–WordPress Just Made Millions of Blogs Real-Time With RSSCloud–and some gears started turning. A few hunks of rust came off and the protestations of my brain being forced into gymnastics was audible across [...]

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