Comments on: Zite adds 7 new publishing partners; updates iOS app with Google Reader-inspired features http://paidcontent.org/2013/05/22/zite-adds-7-new-publishing-partners-updates-ios-app-with-google-reader-inspired-features/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: raadore http://paidcontent.org/2013/05/22/zite-adds-7-new-publishing-partners-updates-ios-app-with-google-reader-inspired-features/#comment-207486 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:36:52 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=229788#comment-207486 Agree. I do use Zite for exactly the thing you mentioned – the magical algorithm that gives what appears to be random news that I want. but when I want to read I turn to Google Reader

]]> By: Joe A http://paidcontent.org/2013/05/22/zite-adds-7-new-publishing-partners-updates-ios-app-with-google-reader-inspired-features/#comment-207315 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:21 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=229788#comment-207315 “One of the biggest problems with Google Reader is that RSS feeds which publish many stories per day tend to dominate your feed, so the obscure blog you found a few years ago that publishes every three months can be drowned out in the noise.”

No. This has never been a problem with Google Reader. the “inbox” layout of the service has always made it easy to see exactly which sites updated and how many new updates there were on the left. You know what this problem? Apps like Zite who feel the need to group all my RSS feeds together into one big feed.

Google Reader had it right, and for some reason everyone who wants to be a competitor now would rather make big, flashy “magazine-style” readers that are ultimately useless for someone who actually wants to read the content from the feeds the subscribed to. I selected the RSS feeds that I follow in Reader because I want to read them. I don’t need services like Zite to use magical algorithms to decide what I want to read for me.

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