After reading an article in my RSS reader, there are a number of actions I’d like to perform. All of these are about moving the ball forward. How many of these does your aggregator do easily?
- Post a comment to the original article.
- Email the author.
- Post a reaction on your own public blog while quoting, crediting, and pinging the original article.
- Email a article to someone that doesn’t read your blog.
- Save the entire article to a private archive.
Do you actually save articles? My take: blog (and news) content doesn’t get better with age.
While I agree timeliness is often the most valuable, there are a number of cases to save an article (the reason bookmarking sites are so popular).
I frequently save tutorials and code samples locally – because they’re easier to refind locally than re-searching online.
Sometimes relevance trumps timeliness.