To start off, I can say that I am very new to this feed reader stuff. In fact, I've always wanted to add some of my favorite feeds to a single feed that I can view in the one place but I never put aside the time to figure out how this reader thing worked. I guess I should have spent the 2 mins figuring out how to use it and add RSS feeds along time ago, as the name suggests, it is simple!
I didn't quite get a weeks worth in before writing this blog, in fact I only got 4 days worth of feeds. This was due to missing some key points when originally looking over the instructions. Anyway, I decided to use the feed reader on my Android phone, as all of my feeds are looked at when I have some spare time and rarely when I'm relaxing at the end of a day on my laptop or computer. Therefore, all observations were done via my HTC one X, which allows a decent amount of content to be displayed.
I subscribed to some general news sites, tech news sites, popular YouTube video feeds, BoyceAvenue (Artist on YouTube) and Torrentz.com.
I found that there were a few benefits to a feed reader (I used 'Feedly'). The first and most obvious being the main purpose of this technology, and that was to display all my RSS feeds in the one place which in turn saves me having 10 different tabs open on my browser and searching over and over again. Another is that I can mix different feeds into each other in the one place, such as different news websites. This made browsing that much easier and faster. Also, filtering different categories was very simple and effective when looking for a specific feed.
With all of the benefits, I guess there was a few drawbacks. Not very significant, but it was sometimes difficult to understand exactly where a feed was coming from, as they were often all in the one place. Filtering my feeds on the feed reader was also difficult to achieve. It was much more simple on my original websites.
All in all, I will definitely continue to use 'Feedly' and I believe that over time, through constant usage and familiarizing myself with the different settings, the experience will continue to improve and I will enjoy many hours 'reading'. Also, it could turn the other way and I could very well be at the maximum potential of 'Feedly' and it could be all downhill from here. I don't think this to be true, but you never know.
Until next time.
Riley.
Good to see you enjoyed using it, I've seen some others have pretty poor experiences with using "Feedly"
ReplyDeleteDoes that mean they have better recommendations for Feed Readers or do they just not like them altogether?
ReplyDeleteThis is the first one I have used. It is also on my phone which might limit its capabilities a little. I'll have to expand and try more and on different devices to get a full perspective, I guess.