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Losing Authorial Voice in RSS Feeds

Danyel Fisher has an interesting blog post about our adventures with Howard Rheingold last week. Howard and Danyel hadn't met before, but apparently Howard has been reading Danyel's blog. Danyel reflects on this. Two virtual ships passing in the night.

This made me think about my use of RSS feeds - and how life was before I used Bloglines. In the old blog days (ha! Last Year),I would visit each person's blog on my blogroll. This way I could really engage with the people who were writing the posts, see pictures of the person on the sidebar etc. But truthfully, it became crazy when I was reading 70 different blogs a day. The aggregator was the way to go. Yes, you do lose some of the personality of the blogger this way - you miss template changes, new profile pics and so forth. I do find that if there is an interesting blog post, I will click and go and read it on the site. I really feel like I am a part of the Blog author's community.

So, RSS feeds efficient and time saving? Yes. RSS feeds rob bloggers of their personality? Yes.

posted by Netwoman @ 12:19 AM