{"id":3747,"date":"2004-12-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/rss-for-serious-news-hounds-or-everyone\/"},"modified":"2004-12-23T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-23T11:00:00","slug":"rss-for-serious-news-hounds-or-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/rss-for-serious-news-hounds-or-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS :: For Serious News Hounds? Or Everyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an fascinating discussion today with one of the company librarians.  We were discusssing why Factiva was so popular here and the barriers to making RSS feeds a standard way of receiving news.  Our talk came to an interesting conclusion:  People don&#8217;t want to spend time thinking about the quality of the news they receive.  They want someone in our library to evaluate incoming news and feed them content.<\/p>\n<p>We talked through the other barriers to RSS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>setting up accounts on readers<\/li>\n<li>limited (compared to Factiva) news sources<\/li>\n<li>lack of archival content<\/li>\n<li>the potential havoc of screening ads<\/li>\n<li>lack of keyword filtering<\/ul>\n<p> and realized that all of these things could be overcome with time or training.  The thing that couldn&#8217;t be overcome was laziness.<\/p>\n<p>I have a hard time with the conclusion, but I know it&#8217;s true.  There aren&#8217;t enough people who are interested in the quality of what they&#8217;re reading.  They&#8217;re more interested in getting through their day than making any serious inquiry into the quality of what Factiva provides them.<\/p>\n<p>This means I have a bigger hill to climb with RSS adoption in my company than I&#8217;d previously considered.  I&#8217;ll continue to mull this over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an fascinating discussion today with one of the company librarians. We were discusssing why Factiva was so popular here and the barriers to making RSS feeds a standard way of receiving news. Our talk came to an interesting conclusion: People don&#8217;t want to spend time thinking about the quality of the news they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}