{"id":274,"date":"2006-09-12T16:46:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T20:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=274"},"modified":"2006-09-12T16:46:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T20:46:44","slug":"cry-me-a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Cry Me A River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#39;t get what all the fuss is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/2006\/08\/22.html\">river of news<\/a>. I&#39;ve been using my news aggregator on PDA&#39;s and lousy cell phone screens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/TimsBlog\/2004\/01\/19.html\">for about 2.5 years<\/a>. I just spent an hour int he Doctor&#39;s office yesterday catching up on some news on my lousy cell phone screen (which happens to work well enough). The beauty is that I don&#39;t have to care whether someone has provided a river or stripped down view and I can view it the way I like to read news and not the way Dave thinks I should read news.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#39;ve said this before, if you really want to read in a river of news style then Bloglines lets you do that. Most other aggregators do as well I&#39;m pretty sure. I just can&#39;t be bothered to waste the time to verify that myself.<\/p>\n<p>So whats all the fuss and why is everyone wasting a bunch of time creating &#8220;river&#8221; views of content?? I&#39;m sure someone will enlighten me in the comments here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#39;t get what all the fuss is about river of news. I&#39;ve been using my news aggregator on PDA&#39;s and lousy cell phone screens for about 2.5 years. I just spent an hour int he Doctor&#39;s office yesterday catching up on some news on my lousy cell phone screen (which happens to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}