If you are reading this, you are probably aware of the fact that there is a diminishing handful of wayward Luddite souls who are nothing like you: They do not share your electropurian addiction to all things digital. They have no idea of what RSS is, they don't give a rat's knuckle about Joost, or the iPhone, or the new iMac, or Ruby on Rails, or new Linux distros. They couldn't care less about Gmail, they have never seen Chocolate Rain on YouTube, and they certainly have no use for Web 2-point anything.

Wikipedia sounds less like an informational site and more like one of the following:
A) The definitive guide to pagan worship
B) The science of weaving bamboo strips into Herman Miller chairs

Author and blogger Karen Shanley has a great post called Five Ways to Set Up Your Blog To Chase Readers Away. It's well worth reading, and has given me some ideas to think about on my various blogs.

I'm a recent convert to using an RSS reader rather than just regularly hitting my favorite blogs and sites. Part of what tipped the balance for me is the increasing use of feeds by non-blog sites. When I had a semi-regular schedule of sites I was checking for updates, it didn't make a lot of sense to me to handle blogs differently. Now most of my favorite regularly updated sites have feeds and I'm much happier using a reader.

Day 10 – Saturday

Today's task was to add a bunch of icons for RSS/ATOM subscriptions via different feed readers. However, there is now a standardized feed icon, so there is no need to use all of them and it seems like the word subscribe is better understood by the web novices I know than any icon, including the icon specific to whatever reader they use.