RSS feeds

If there’s one phenomenon I can’t wrap my head around is the proliferation of people who are tech-savvy and nerdy enough to know what RSS is but are also unable to discover my RSS feeds.

A non-trivial percentage of the people subscribed to both my blog-to-email newsletter and the People and Blogs newsletter are using one of those tools that automatically convert newsletters into RSS feeds. Wonderful tools, great tools, useful tools, I’m not debating that. But for the love of all things digital, all that content is already available as native RSS feeds so WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE GOING THROUGH ALL THESE EXTRA STEPS??

The P&B one is especially baffling because the link to the RSS feed is at the beginning of every single email I send. Anyway, let’s use this as an excuse to list the RSS feeds that are available, in case you prefer to consume content that way:

• Primary Feed: this contains all my posts, all my “moments”, as well as all the P&B interviews. If you want to get all my content, pick this one.
• Instagram Feed: this feed contains just my moments AKA the Instagram-style posts with an image and a small caption. If you only care about pretty pictures, consider subscribing to this one.
• P&B Feed: finally this is a dedicated feed for the People and Blogs interviews. If you can’t stand me but still want to read what the wonderful guests have to say about themselves and their sites you can subscribe to this one.