Well, it doesn’t really. In fact, RSS is great. (Even if Atom is bet­ter, but more peo­ple know what RSS is so I’m using that loosely for “feed”/syndication generally).

It’s mostly good because I never kept a list of favourite sites, and visiting/remembering to visit wher­ever totally takes up too much of my time/just doesn’t hap­pen. It’s bad because some things don’t sup­port RSS… but I don’t really read any­thing like that. The excep­tion, of course, being LJ com­ment feeds which DON’T EXIST. It’s annoy­ing how they can be so advanced/innovative with their OpenID stuff, etc., but so back­wards in not pro­vid­ing what is (for every other blog ser­vice on the planet) par for the course. Actu­ally, I lie. I think Blog­ger equally sucks in that regard, but what­ever. They shouldn’t.

Hav­ing said all that, RSS takes away from the, erm, thrill of the chase. You can’t go look­ing at “just one more site” because they’re all defined in a list, and aggre­gated for you in one place! Ter­ri­ble for pro­cras­ti­na­tion. Ah well. Very lit­tle of that still required! (Until exams loom closer, that is).