TechnoMagicians Weblog :: Cry Me A River

I really don't get what all the fuss is about river of news. I've been using my news aggregator on PDA's and lousy cell phone screens for about 2.5 years. I just spent an hour int he Doctor's office yesterday catching up on some news on my lousy cell phone screen (which happens to work well enough). The beauty is that I don't have to care whether someone has provided a river or stripped down view and I can view it the way I like to read news and not the way Dave thinks I should read news.

And I've said this before, if you really want to read in a river of news style then Bloglines lets you do that. Most other aggregators do as well I'm pretty sure. I just can't be bothered to waste the time to verify that myself.

So whats all the fuss and why is everyone wasting a bunch of time creating "river" views of content?? I'm sure someone will enlighten me in the comments here.

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Re: Cry Me A River

by Tim A on Fri 22 Sep 2006 04:49 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

As a followup to this looks like Bloglines has made a few changes to mobile yesterday to make it even better - see http://www.bloglines.com/about/news#120

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