Use a feed reader of your choice to subscribe to several feeds for sites that you frequently visit. Write a blog post about your experience after using a feed reader every day for a week. What are at least two benefits and drawbacks of using a feed reader?
For my first official "down to business" blog post, the first thing I'm going to do is, review a feed reader, noting the positives and negatives that I find. The feed reader I have decided to use is that of the Feed Reader 3.0 Gadget for Windows.
The reason I had chosen this particular reader, is because of it syncing up nicely with my desktop and thus would be my first positive note! I found the reader very convenient, with only having to log into the device and setting the sites that you want to get updated on once. I found this convenient as all of the news sites I had subscribed to, (Kotaku and Lifehacker), were on my desktop awaiting for me to read every time I turned on my computer, or even accessed the desktop. So the first benefit is definitely convenience. The next benefit I have found is the ease of use, as stated above it was basically set and forget! But now onto some of the negatives.
I found that while I liked the convenience of the it is still no where near as interesting as reading the articles on their original form/sites. While the RSS is easy to use and convenient it can't show pictures or videos which usually go hand in hand with the Kotaku articles I am usually interested in. The other thing that I didn't like, is the fact that you cant easily sift through what is shown to you and it brings up everything that is contained on the site.
In my opinion, the positives while are good, for me, they didn't outweigh the negatives in my opinion. While for some it may be worth it but it doesn't give me the same enjoyment as reading the articles on the sites that they were originally posted on as I like the visual aspect of it all.
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