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Shelley Powers: RSS and Community. [via Jonathon Delacour: the long and short of it, which is an excellent read in its own right] Part of the weblogging process to me is visiting each person’s unique site. The words and the surroundings form a unified whole that communicates more than just the words themselves. Agreed, and this is the main reason I don’t use Radio or Amphetadesk or Peerkat to read weblogs. There’s so much you miss: small site changes, blogroll changes, not to mention comment forums. Reading weblogs via RSS is like reading a written transcription of the daily water cooler conversation.

But I still publish an RSS feed, because I don’t begrudge people who want to use tools to make everything they read look the same (unless their tools are buggy). Y’all can read my words however you like. Even in Lynx.

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