February 21, 2011

how do you read clusterflock?

This might not be the best day to ask this, considering the holiday, but I am curious how people read clusterflock: RSS, Twitter, Google Reader, the site itself, at a computer, on a mobile device…. Knowing how, and when, the site is viewed, especially by those who may read but not normally comment, would be greatly appreciated. And of course, regular commenters please jump in as well.

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  1. Sheila Ryan on February 21st, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    I read via the site itself, mostly via computer but sometimes via my phone.

  2. Dave Farris on February 21st, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    I seem to mostly view clusterflock (the actual site) on my iPhone at various times throughout the day. When I used to work in an office, I would use a regular computer (on my break of course). Anymore, I seem to default to the phone for viewing the sites I check in on daily. Maybe it’s just laziness, considering often times my regular computer is only steps away. I guess I’m happy enough with the mobile browser to keep up to date this way. The only real issue I run into besides the occasional video that won’t play is moving to “previous entries”. I have to enlarge the view considerably to be able to click the link on the touchscreen.

  3. dglen on February 21st, 2011 at 1:09 pm

    Site itself.

  4. colinr on February 21st, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    Google Reader mashed up with 6 other sites in my “A Feed”

  5. Libby on February 21st, 2011 at 1:29 pm

    RSS. I’m more or less addicted to Google Reader.

  6. Michael Smith on February 21st, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    Drunk. Oh…wait.

    I regularly use the following: Chrome, IE7 (don’t ask), mobile Safari, Google Reader, Flipboard, and Twitter.

  7. Michael Smith on February 21st, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    Oh, Mobile Safari on both iPad and iPhone.

  8. Chris on February 21st, 2011 at 1:40 pm

    RSS via Google Reader and Reeder on my iPhone

  9. Molly on February 21st, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    RSS. I use Feedreader.

  10. David on February 21st, 2011 at 1:45 pm

    RSS via Google Reader (web and Android app)

  11. Robert on February 21st, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    This is my first time commenting, but I usually read in Google Reader and in the Google Reader Android app.

  12. Kelsey Parker on February 21st, 2011 at 1:57 pm

    I used RSS for the first year of stalking, then I continued to RSS during my first year of commenting, and for about a year now I haven’t been using RSS because — at least until school started — I was visiting the site several times throughout an average day. I am considering returning to RSS so I don’t miss any posts, because I’ve found that my busier schedule is making that too possible.

  13. Marco on February 21st, 2011 at 1:57 pm

    I watch for new posts via RSS in Safari on my desktop/laptop and on the iPad. I jump to the site for videos or if I think to add a comment.

  14. Frank Patrick on February 21st, 2011 at 2:04 pm

    RSS via Google Reader keeps me flocked up.

  15. Phil Wells on February 21st, 2011 at 2:18 pm

    Google Reader

  16. Mary Nir on February 21st, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    I also read via RSS on Google Reader currently, and sometimes on the site directly.

  17. Dave Vogt on February 21st, 2011 at 2:51 pm

    Follow twitter to catch new posts, either firefox on PC or mobile safari on iphone for actual reading.

  18. Jo Valvekens on February 21st, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    The site. Always the site. Daily, and with great pleasure.

  19. Cindy Scroggins on February 21st, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    I feel old.

  20. Nick Husher on February 21st, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    RSS -> Google Reader -> Reeder for iPhone

    I’m also almost totally switched over to Reeder for OS X as well. Aside from some flash stuff, it works better than Google Reader does.

  21. Kristy on February 21st, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    Reader on my laptop. NewsRob on my Android phone, occasionally.

  22. Chris on February 21st, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    google reader for life

  23. Deron Bauman on February 21st, 2011 at 4:09 pm

    Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. I look forward to hearing from more.

  24. Sheila Ryan on February 21st, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    For what it’s worth, I use Google Reader for other things. But you know, I loiter around clusterflock so much that it’s like I’m always hanging around in the parking lot. Or the alley.

  25. Toby Brake on February 21st, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    RSS (NetNewsWire) to check what’s going down, and for some things I’ll then open up the article in chrome

  26. Phil Bebbington on February 21st, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    100% on the site itself. I’ve never used readers for anything, my brain can’t take it!

  27. Abby on February 21st, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    google reader on a desktop

  28. Chris on February 21st, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    Google reader in chrome on the computer.

    Reeder on iPhone.

  29. Ryan P on February 21st, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    RSS (Google Reader) on Chrome on Mac OS X. Sometimes on Feedler for iPad.

    As Deron has mentioned, “Come for the posts, stay for the comments”. Sometimes I’ll be flipping through the feed and find something so provocative that I’m dying to know what y’all flockers will say. It’s a fun guessing game to see who will chime in with what. Sometimes I’ll be on the fence, click through, and get something like this, that makes me laugh for almost an entire day whenever I think about it.

    Thanks y’all!

  30. jackie on February 21st, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    Google Reader on monitor, Flipboard on iPad.

  31. Kathy Hilen-Smith on February 21st, 2011 at 5:21 pm

    DXX, XTT, SpellMaster, TronoMATIC®, maticTRON©, on the toilet (not always), hypertoxicated, monotoxicated, multitoxicated, reflectfully, respectfully, fully, and/or all fucked up.

    Why?

  32. Rick Neece on February 21st, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    Always the site itself from my laptop (IE). I did use the iPad a bit, but I used it the same as the laptop for reading sites, it fell into disuse, harder to respond with the virtual keyboard. I found myself with little need for the iPad. I sold it to a friend here in town who wanted to try it. I’m rarely far away from the laptop. I have an android and rarely use it for reading, though I can now. If I am away from the laptop I can catch up without it.

  33. Kathy Hilen-Smith on February 21st, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    Sometimes I just Google boners.

  34. Abra on February 21st, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    Google reader and twitter – mostly the GR, though.

  35. Sheila Ryan on February 21st, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    It works for me, Kathy. Glad to know it works for you.

    (You enjoying that new MacBook Pro?)

  36. Sheila Ryan on February 21st, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    Also, Kathy: supercalifragilisticexpialintoxicated.

  37. Ruhee on February 21st, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    RSS feed (I, too, am addicted to Google Reader). I never comment but often think I should.

  38. Sheila Ryan on February 21st, 2011 at 6:01 pm

    Rick, I have an android, but I too rarely use it for reading. Mostly for sick sex to which no human would submit.

  39. Deron Bauman on February 21st, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    Ruhee, you should!

    Ryan, thank you!

    These comments have been great. Sometimes it feels like a light is on and you can’t see who is beyond it. This post helps.

  40. Kathy Hilen-Smith on February 21st, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    Sheila, that Mac China-spam email is where I learnt all about the DXX, XTT, SpellMaster, TronoMATIC®, and maticTRON. All value priced at only 元9.95!

  41. Jared on February 21st, 2011 at 6:39 pm

    Google Reader on laptop.

  42. Fletch on February 21st, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    RSS via Google Reader. Usually on Firefox, but occasionally on Chrome or Safari.

    Very occasionally through iOs.

  43. Droplet on February 21st, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    Used to visit the site about once a month on Firefox and then Chrome. It’s blocked at work (Websense). When I got a Clear modem for my iPod touch, I started using an RSS reader with mixed results.

    So: %30 site on Chrome, OSX, %70 RSS on iOS.

  44. Alex on February 21st, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    Google Reader. And it looks great.

  45. Sarah on February 21st, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    Google Reader

  46. range on February 21st, 2011 at 10:55 pm

    RSS via GReader.

  47. Amanda Mae on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:04 am

    I think I’m too stunned by the sudden question to be able to formulate any kind of coherent response.

    How could anyone “read” clusterflock? To try and delineate that aspect of what a clusterflock is, or could be, is just pure foolishness.

    First off, I’m reminded of Susanne Langer in her Problems of Art, which, I know you have a indexical understanding of so I won’t waste too much time explicating, “Sometimes our comprehension of a total experience is mediated by a metaphorical symbol because the experience is new, and language has words and phrases only for familiar notions… But the symbolic presentation of subjective reality for contemplation is not only tentative beyond the words we have; it is impossible in the essential frame of language.”

    Inhale, exhale smoke.

    Then I turn, of course, as one only could, to the book Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image by Joseph Kickasola. He says that there are many experiences we receive through art that cannot be spoken of.

    I maintain that there are Clusterflockian experiences that can be neither read about, articulated, seen, overheard, examined, contemplated, or experienced at all.

  48. Amanda Mae on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:06 am

    In short, I have not now, nor will I ever “read” your website on the Internet, in print, or in any other format!

  49. Deron Bauman on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:08 am

    Have any links you want fixed?

  50. Amanda Mae on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:10 am

    I will fix your links, and I will fix them permanently, gouging and etching that coding so far into the fabric of time and space that God himself couldn’t redirect shit if He laid hands on it and cried out to the baby Jesus.

  51. Deron Bauman on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:11 am

    I caught you a delicious bass.

  52. Amanda Mae on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:12 am

    I don’t even know what you’re saying half the time.

  53. Derek White on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:22 am

    Straight from the source. Sometimes on my blackberry if i’m in a long line.

  54. Bogdan on February 22nd, 2011 at 3:12 am

    Google Reader. Saves so much time.

  55. Adam Burke on February 22nd, 2011 at 11:10 am

    I read your site straight from the source – clusterflock.org. I do use Google Reader a lot for *other* sites but I prefer the way you present yourself on your site to the way you look inside of Reader.

  56. Jessy on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    Discovered you on iPad’s Flipboard app, but since I don’t have an iPad full-time, I read you on Google Reader.

  57. James Campbell on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    Google Reader, unless of course you ask a question like this, then I have to go directly to the post and make a dumb ass comment like this.

  58. Dylan on February 22nd, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    Feverishly, if sporadically. Via the site itself.

  59. v on February 23rd, 2011 at 6:01 am

    RSS via Google Reader

  60. Andrew Simone on February 23rd, 2011 at 9:24 am

    I used to use google reader, but moved to twitter to announce new updates which will direct me to the site itself. And, fwiw, I’ve been meaning to work on a mobile version of the site to make it easier to navigate.

  61. Trevor on March 3rd, 2011 at 4:09 pm

    Google Reader via Jason Kottke’s bundled feed in Google Chrome

  62. Casey on March 3rd, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    Google Reader, and then I usually click through to read the comments, and sometimes comment just so I can get updates on the comments, and then it ends up in my email. Sometimes I wish I could subscribe to the comments for a particular post via RSS (This is the only site I’d ever care to do that for!).

    Sometimes when I’m bored I look for new posts on twitter.

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