Mark Boulton

11 Responses to “Back to reading feeds”

1. 
   Kalle Paulsson said on: May 9th, 2010 at 3:05 pm

   Inter­est­ing, I just bought NNW for the very same pur­pose and reason. 

   I had lost touch with my Reader account, mark­ing thou­sands of posts as read when I logged in every few weeks.

   I think Twit­ter­rific and NNW om the iPad provides a very nice sin­gu­lar pur­pose focus exper­i­ence, without distractions.

   And for those posts you want even more focus on, there’s always the Instapa­per integ­ra­tion in both apps.

   And yes, I’m writ­ing this from inside NNW. :-)

2. 
   Jacob said on: May 10th, 2010 at 2:08 am

   I’d just star­ted using google reader, I had pre­vi­ously just vis­ited sites that I knew had good inform­a­tion on a reg­u­lar basis. It’s a huge dif­fer­ence hav­ing things delivered on the same page, simply being able to scroll through a dozen art­icles every morn­ing is the greatest.

3. 
   Peter Holloway said on: May 11th, 2010 at 8:57 am

   Wel­come back to the fold! I have to con­fess, I’ve never been able to bring myself to move from Feed­De­mon, so I love it when I see blog­gers start blog­ging again ;)

4. 
   Milan said on: May 13th, 2010 at 9:24 pm

   You could have, God for­bid, used google reader for read­ing blogs on the iPad. 

   It’s what every­one who’s in the know does.

5. 
   Kalle Paulsson said on: May 13th, 2010 at 9:43 pm

   I won­der about those “in the know” then, since the desktop ver­sion is unus­able on the iPad, and the touch ver­sion is optim­ised for an iPhone size screen.

   They might do an iPad adap­tion as they did with gmail, but until then and prob­ably also still then, an app simply deliv­ers a bet­ter user exper­i­ence. Also with Instapa­per integ­ra­tion etc, in the case of NetNewsWire.

6. 
   Milan said on: May 14th, 2010 at 8:29 am

   We’re talk­ing about the iPad. Google Reader doesn’t work on it well? OK then. Instapa­per and Net­News­Wire is better.

   But what I’m curi­ous about is the author’s “I bought Net News Wire for the iPad, and I think it’s going to make me read blogs again.” He states he hasn’t read any blogs prior to the pur­chase of an iPad. That’s what I’m attack­ing. A desktop/laptop with google reader is great for read­ing blogs. 

   What I’m sus­pi­cious of is whether or not Mark is a die-hard apple fanboy.

7. 
   Kalle Paulsson said on: May 15th, 2010 at 4:23 pm

   Wow, that’s a bit rude, don’t you think? Why do you feel a need to “attack” someone at their own blog?

   Just as Mark states in his post, twit­ter had kind of replaced feed read­ing as the way to get the latest inform­a­tion for me. It’s amaz­ingly real­time, but also very fragmented.

   Google Reader in a desktop/laptop envir­on­ment (note the absence of OS/computer brand here, just as in Marks post) is a very good web app indeed, but there’s a ton of dis­trac­tions that comes with it with twit­ter, mail and other apps pulling your atten­tion con­stantly. This is where the single-tasking nature of the iPad actu­ally helps.

   Also, I find it much easier to read longer posts in the com­fort of say, a sofa, while not hav­ing a laptop burn­ing away at my legs.

   Keep it friendly, mmkay?

8. 
   Mark said on: May 15th, 2010 at 4:45 pm

   @Milan I was just express­ing how a device — with the right soft­ware — might alter beha­viour. In this case; an iPad, Net­News­Wire and the abil­ity not to mul­ti­task. Why be sus­pi­cious of whether I’m a fan boy or not? Why attack any­body at all?

9. 
   Milan said on: May 15th, 2010 at 4:58 pm

   Right,
   Mark, it’s a good post. Sorry for being a douche.
   Kalle, sorry for being a douche.

   Attack­ing is a wrong word for it. Tar­get­ing. That’s what I meant.

10. 
    Graphic Designer NYC said on: June 10th, 2010 at 3:16 am

    Wrote “get” twice, “100 char­ac­ters or so, you get get thin”

11. 
    Fern said on: June 27th, 2010 at 7:19 am

    I sup­pose blogs are long-form com­pared to twit­ter! I must admit, I’m a bit jeal­ous of the iPad. That is, of you own­ing one. But if it helps you stop being thin, jit­tery and unhappy, well then, I can’t begrudge you for hav­ing an iPad. Espe­cially since you’re a per­fect stranger and all.

    Actu­ally, I star­ted to com­ment solely because I wanted to say that you have one of the most gor­geous blogs I’ve ever set eyes on. The last time I felt the urge to just stop and visu­ally absorb design like this was with an incred­ible well-designed copy of Pride and Pre­ju­dice. (The cover is here: http://www.refinery29.com/ruben-toledo-gives-bronte-and.php though it’s really the gor­geous innards I gaped at.) So thanks for the beau­ti­ful design. I’m thor­oughly appre­ci­at­ing it.

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