Running as Root

I have already reached the point that I will not pay attention to a site's regular updates if there is no RSS feed. This is the 21st century, people! I will not live like a common animal, checking sites on a daily or weekly basis to see if they've added new content (isn't that how animals browse the web?). And yes, I know that there are other options for me to work around the deficiencies of these sites–but I refuse. That's why I'm a bigot. I'm intolerant of those that differ from me in terms of RSS feeds.

Well, I'm going one step further. I'm going to start unsubscribing to feeds that only publish titles or summaries. There just isn't any point to making me visit their site. Ad revenue? Include the ads in the feed if you insist. Is it that they have too much bandwidth and would prefer multiple people hitting their site rather than a smaller number of feed aggregators (ignoring the issue of repeated hits from desktop aggregators for the moment)? Oh, I know. They've done such a good job on designing their site that their pee pees would shrivel up if no one saw it.

I'm convinced that sites that attempt to deliver regularly updated content without an RSS feed will eventually atrophy and fall off the internet. As for people that only publish titles / summaries in their feeds: "You're dead to me boy. You're more dead to me than your dead mother."

Exception

As far as I know, the blog of the Barney character on How I Met Your Mother is the only exception I'm willing to make (there's a title only feed).

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