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Mon, 26 May 2003
Home pages vs RSS Feeds
Tim Bray wonders if home pages are going away. I think of it this way. A home page is like a brochure or advertisement that is used to get someone's attention -- as a starting point for a relationship. An RSS feed is what you use if you want to keep the relationship going.
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I still refer to some folks' sites via the browser, even those that I normally read via RSS, to get a "better feel" for who they are. A person's site has a visual style and, in some cases a continuity, that an rss feed doesn't.
Secondly, especially if I enjoy the topics they write on, I'll go by their site every now and then just to see who all's on their blogroll - I usually end up finding at least one additional person to add to my list of feeds.
Finally, there's got to be a "place" to send friends and family who've not yet "seen the light of rss" and who still think that the web == the net.
Sites visited by browsers, dead? Nope.
Posted by steven at Tue May 27 12:00:51 2003
Secondly, especially if I enjoy the topics they write on, I'll go by their site every now and then just to see who all's on their blogroll - I usually end up finding at least one additional person to add to my list of feeds.
Finally, there's got to be a "place" to send friends and family who've not yet "seen the light of rss" and who still think that the web == the net.
Sites visited by browsers, dead? Nope.
Posted by steven at Tue May 27 12:00:51 2003
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