In what may be the most shocking poll results to date, the recent RSS survey has revealed that almost half of you that visit this blog do not subscribe to any RSS feeds! Zip. Zero. Nada. Now as a blog with an RSS feed, this is interesting and concerning news. I assume this news means that the nearly 45% of you that don't subscribe to RSS feeds are manually visiting this site (ahem) everyday to get your updates. Seems like a lot of extra work, but to each their own.
On the flip side, more than half of survey respondents do subscribe to at least one RSS feed. Still, I was surprised that only 36% of you subscribe to 10 or more feeds. I was under the impression that the tech geek crowd was habitually addicted to adding RSS feeds to their readers, but it appears you are much more discerning. To put it another way, 64% of you subscribe to fewer than 10 RSS feeds. Which ones make your elite Top 10?
Personally, I fall in to the "10 - 15" feeds category, though I cheat a little by using Yahoo! Pipes to consolidate many of my related feeds in to a single stream. These survey results open-up a number of potential follow-up questions, but most interesting to me is why so many of you have shunned the popular RSS subscribing behavior. Is it information overload? Don't like the available RSS readers? Sound-off in the comments and help those of us relatively dependent on RSS understand your subscription-less world.
For everyone else (and the non-subscribers, too), be sure to vote in the new poll that is the .NET equivalent of boxers or briefs: C# or VB?
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