More on Navigation Habits within Feed Readers
A paradigm shift away from control ...
“In the old days”, or BRSS (before RSS), people needed to visit a site in order to know if it was updated. They would click on their bookmarks religiously one after another and check to see what was new. This tedious process didn’t have to be done every day, both because sites weren’t updated every day but also because our information needs were not being fulfilled as much by bloggers as they were by other, larger news organizations. We could hit a small number of sites and be satisfied that we knew the latest information.
As people began sharing their experiences more and more and building their own blogs, those blogs grew in value to the point that we’re getting as much value from them (if not more) than we are traditional media. RSS plays directly into this, and allows us to keep track of hundreds of web sites in just one screen. Before RSS this was a manual process, now it is automated. This is an order of magnitude change.
I forsaw this (certainly with the help of others) to some extent in the “control” article, and the column that Richard and I are writing is going to delve deeper into this. However, I didn’t realize how complete or quickly the change would happen. That’s not to say that everyone is now using their feed reader for navigation, but those who are…are doing it completely. And their behavior has changed in a relatively short period of time. Very short. Several commenters yesterday made it clear that they have no qualms about this, and that they don’t pay attention to the so-called design of the site." continued ... (Via Bokardo)
“In the old days”, or BRSS (before RSS), people needed to visit a site in order to know if it was updated. They would click on their bookmarks religiously one after another and check to see what was new. This tedious process didn’t have to be done every day, both because sites weren’t updated every day but also because our information needs were not being fulfilled as much by bloggers as they were by other, larger news organizations. We could hit a small number of sites and be satisfied that we knew the latest information.
As people began sharing their experiences more and more and building their own blogs, those blogs grew in value to the point that we’re getting as much value from them (if not more) than we are traditional media. RSS plays directly into this, and allows us to keep track of hundreds of web sites in just one screen. Before RSS this was a manual process, now it is automated. This is an order of magnitude change.
I forsaw this (certainly with the help of others) to some extent in the “control” article, and the column that Richard and I are writing is going to delve deeper into this. However, I didn’t realize how complete or quickly the change would happen. That’s not to say that everyone is now using their feed reader for navigation, but those who are…are doing it completely. And their behavior has changed in a relatively short period of time. Very short. Several commenters yesterday made it clear that they have no qualms about this, and that they don’t pay attention to the so-called design of the site." continued ... (Via Bokardo)
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