Law professor Tom W. Bell is right:
- Blog subscribers who read inside a feed reader don’t mind anymore about publication frequency. Their (PC-based or Web-based) feed reader (which is a piece of software that downloads the feeds) has freed them from checking many websites once a day (more or less). These blog subscribers are free to consult their feed items (e.g., the blog posts) whenever they like, since feed readers remember old items. It’s convenient to have all one’s readings automatically aggregated on one place (a feed reader).
- That said, as of today, alas, only a small percent of all Web readers turn themselves into subscribers. Thus the need for educating them —with all due respect. MicroSoft, with its Internet Explorer #7 (which has a built-in feed reader), will do just that.
I disagree with Tom Bell (sorry… Tom “W” Bell):
- The best Web-based feed reader is not BlogLines (anymore), but Google Reader. (Don’t take my word for it: the Life Hacker girl, pictured yesterday in the WSJ, said so.)
- Click here to subscribe to Midas Oracle via Google Reader.
