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Originally Posted by Chaos
I still have a bit of a problem with the concept of RSS... Well, more accurately, the implementation that most websites use. Grabbing the content automatically is a great idea, and I've found it to be quite useful (recently) for checking on updated software packages for Linux distributions. The problem I have with news, is that it tends to only give you a little blurb, and expects you to go online to find the rest of the article. This makes it almost entirely useless without an internet connection, and slightly inconvenient with one.
That said, I use a full reader as well, Akregator on KDE (Gentoo). It's pretty simple, but integrates well with the rest of my environment, so it's all I currently need. Only have four feeds currently, but I'm slowly building that as I find things I really do check quite a bit (which isn't that much, having been as busy as I have been recently).
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I actually find the version of RSS that carries the full content of articles in it rather odd, since, at least when you use an online newsreader, it takes the advertising revenues from the source of the news to the provider of the online reader.
If it becomes standard, I think it could have a negative effect on online publishing since a very siginificant number of online magazines have advertising as their only source of income, so I am rather happy that it is this way.