““The shift to reading newspapers online isn’t just sad for vanishing printworks and the demise of the most unbeatably usable and portable of media materials-paper-but it means reading in an accident free way. Without the need to fold and turn, a readers’ key interests of business news, match reports and film reviews can be navigated seamlessly, but without stumbling upon the story of the British pub-sign painter or the intriguing report from the martial arts academy in Sichuan.””—
i’d argue that i’m still exposed to a lot of things by accident - curation online happens based on the taste of bloggers / editors, not strictly based on topic. RSS ensures that i get to see a lot of things i would never look for. the assumption that getting information online means you will never be faced with something that challenges your tastes / assumptions has always seemed like a straw man to me.
