RSS Feeds: I'm Spider-Man No More
Before I tell you what this is all about, watch the video (if you can):
I'm not going to use a feedreader anymore. Neither Google Reader nor Bloglines. There are two reasons behind my madness: 1) I don't visit the actual blogs I want to visit and comment on (and that's bad), and 2) the feedreaders don't update properly. I need to go to each blog to see what's actually there. Both of the feedreaders have been lying to me — showing me feeds that haven't been updated in a week when I know they have. Perhaps it's my lousy connection, but I doubt it. I've shut everything down and restarted, loaded up the readers and nothing happens.
Speaking of my lousy connection, I found out on Saturday that I'll have to wait until sometime in January to switch to Globe broadband due to their subscriber capacity being maximized until equipment upgrades have taken place. I'm stuck with this crappy SubicTel DSL connection until then.
My decision to stop using feedreaders goes hand in hand with my master plan: To get more than 1,000 real visitors per day every day, without being stumbled, dugg or zoomed (versus 200 to 300 per day). By visiting and commenting on as many blogs as possible, this goal can be attained. You don't believe me? Sit back and watch as the comment count goes up on my blog in the next couple of weeks. Barring brain freeze on my part, or some other personal complication, my goal should be reached quickly.
What the heck does all this have to do with Spider-Man? Not a damn thing other than the fact that I sometimes feel a great responsibility, but without the power to go with it. By the way, the phrase "…with great power, comes great responsibility" didn't originate with "Spider-Man 2 (2004)". I may be wrong, but I think it was borrowed from "…and with great power, goes a greater responsibility" from "Teen Wolf (1985)".
Starting today sometime, I'll be using the Bookmark Reviewer add-on for Firefox to go through the bookmarks that I set up specifically for blogs. The number of bookmarks is around 115 right now and I know I have some missing that I'll have to add to the list as I go to those blogs.
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I physically visit, I could never get the hang of feedreaders. Send a copy of that plug-in my way too.
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I am totally non-technical. I simply visit who I want to visit when I want to visit them. I know I should get more into this stuff, maybe in the new year.
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Feel free to ask anything technical, Tammy. If I don't know the answer, I should be able to point you in the right direction.
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I have posted about this post.
Richard your comment on my blog has a link to your free wordpress blog (which doesn't get used by the look of it), do you want that changed to this one?
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Yes, please change it to this one. I only created that one in case I couldn't pay for domain renewal.
All done. Your last comment went to your free WP as well – you will have to remember to signout from it so you can post with this site as your details.
goldcoaster's last blog post..Get out and read not feed
I don't get into feed readers. Never have. Like some of the others have already said, I like to read directly from the source. Just not the same. I gave up on feeds some time ago, bookmarks work just fine. Even better for me anyway.
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I have seen the same problem with technorati. They seem to update feed sometimes but not all the time.
RT, man
Lately, when I search in Google for "Keyword" + "Enter YourName@YourKeywords" – I stumble across one of your posts :)
I wonder how many posts you've got on this blog after all.
Ion
Just look at the archives page on the top navigation bar. :-)
It's only going to get bigger and with more keywords. Have fun!