4/19/2023 0 Comments Reeder for mac![]() I forgot about many of the gems I used to read daily with RSS. ![]() I would visit websites as & when I remembered, but I’d only have access to that content while online, so often I failed to even check websites from one month to the next. With my web content I’d moved more towards the Spotify model. No chance of changing terms and conditions, and access anywhere on the planet regardless of connectivity. I travel a lot, I like my MP3’s to be stored on my iPod, my ebooks stored on my kindle and my laptop to be stuffed with movies that are available offline. I prefer ownership, I really dislike streaming anywhere other than on a solid broadband connection, I like to have content which is available offline. Having been born in the early eighties & being interested in tech since the ZX spectrum, I’ve always approached things differently. Nirvana for those who would rather lease content than own it. The media software companies had a lucrative never-ending revenue stream and the mobile network vendors had endless data usage to keep them in cash. People could stream from Netflix and Amazon prime without ever owning their content. It meant services like Spotify could rent music to you without ownership ever being offered. For many reasons, this was the prefered business model for all hardware and software vendors. People stopped syncing content to their devices and started relying on mobile connectivity. All relying on a 3G or 4G signal and constantly connected to the internet. Then came iPhones, smartphones, tablets and smart watches. So syncing for offline viewing was the norm. This was the days of extremely limited GPRS access which was extremely slow & costly. Also, back then, most RSS feeds consisted off the full text of the article, including pictures, making it easy to aggregate blog posts and news posts for viewing offline. For people like me, who are obsessed with the latest information, this was a game changer. The advantage of RSS was the fact that posts could be pulled in from loads of different sources, without the need to go checking each individual site. Back then I’d access them for offline viewing on my palm pilot or O2 XDA (well before smart phones we had palm tops such as the XDA and companies like Palm who provided me with the Palm IIIc where huge). Right back when XML was starting out and RSS feeds became the norm on blogs & websites, I would use an RSS reader to aggregate the posts from my favourite sites & blogs. ![]()
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