Poll: How Do You Access jkOnTheRun most often?
We are always trying to keep up with ways we can improve the site here on jkOnTheRun and make your visit the most enjoyable as we can. One of the ways to do that is by tracking how you access our site most often when you come to visit us for a bit.
It’s time for a poll to let us see how you visit us the most. It’s a simple poll, just indicate the manner in which you visit us most often. The selections are self-explanatory and the last one indicates if you usually access us via the mobile version (m.jkontherun.com). You did know about that, right?
You are in my Google Reader and I always enjoy your posts! Keep up the good work. I read a number of other mobile tech blogs daily. Your site distinguishes itself because it does not just rehash the latest mobile tech news. You always manage to add your perspective to the new and also you draw upon your own experiences with a range of tech gadgets and applications.
Hear, hear
none of the above… RSS feed on iphone.
Another vote for RSS
RSS.
RSS using iPhone
Same! Google Reader for iPhone (and now on a full desktop to reply this thread!
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I rarely access any gadget sites directly since using RSS. One of the gadget sites I subscribe to does “teasers” instead of the full article and I jump to the site for the rest of the article maybe once per month.
One of the bad things about that is that I don’t get to read comments, but I subscribe to too many feeds to have time to read comments and for many sites the comments are not worth reading.
Michael P. is right on the money about you guys and how this site is different from the others.
Since I will receive notification of follow-ups, I don’t have to come back here.
Sorry but I want to add something else here. RSS is great and I find that I can consume more news than ever, but it does create a disconnect between the reader and the writer. Now that I think about it the number of times I comment on an article has dropped to almost zero since I started using RSS. Are websites becoming obsolete?
No… comments are. Just kidding!
You set yourself up for that one! I believe that RSS is continuing to gain wider acceptance so I don’t think your situation is unique. Add in social sites like FriendFeed where you can comment on stories and even more of the conversation is de-centralized. That makes it tougher to follow IMO, but there’s still plenty of good commentary coming from websites. It just happens that it’s not all ON websites.
RSS in Outlook 07
I access the content almost exclusively through the RSS feed and Google Reader.
Rss using google reader.
What – no seperate Tablet PC option !!
None of the above, use RSS mainly and check website once a week usually using laptop.
I voted for notebook. I’ve subscribed to your RSS feed in NetNewsWire. I also have the NetNewsWire app on my iPod touch, so I can get to you from either the iPod or the notebook but I use the notebook more.
I use remote viewing taught to me by the CIA.
My primary access is really RSS (Google Reader), although I do check the site often from my iPhone and G1. I voted for (and had always used) the full version of your website. I guess I should have known that you had a mobile version. Anyway, I just updated the bookmark on my iPhone.
Keep up the great work, jkOnTheRun is a favorite and considered a must read for me.
To those mentioning RSS, I think the purpose was to know the device used, not the program used, lol. But anyway, I check the headlines using Firefox’s RSS LiveBookmarks option and FeedSidebar extension, and then click over to the site for full viewing.
While it’s true I have to use a device, the poll still doesn’t let me specify that I am iPhone with RSS. The only mobile phone options I see are
- Phone (full website)
- mobile version (m.jkontherun.com)
I use NEITHER on my iPhone. So as far as I am concerned, the poll is flawed. I voted “Notebook” as that is my next-most-common device, but just for the record, even there I use an RSS reader, not the site, most of the time.
None of the above – I access it most of the time from my mobile, but because I’m coming from Google Reader, if I look at the site at all, I’m looking at the normal site that has gone through Google’s transcoder, not m.jkontherun.com
RSS is wonderful no doubt but you still have to use some device to get it.
Plus, all of you folks who commented that you never visit the site, you just did to comment. 
Yes, I have to use a device, but see
http://jkontherun.com/2009/03/06/poll-how-do-you-access-jkontherun-most-often/#comment-49878
why that doesn’t mean I have a choice that matches my usage in your poll.
And yes, I came to the site to comment, but that makes up maybe 5% of my usage of jkOnTheRun, so I am not counting that as “most often”.
rss on desktop and nokia tablet
If someone uses a docked slate tablet as their main use, that configuration that would not come through in the survey results. Five years from now, when many people are using pocket computers that dock to use a full keyboard and screen at their desk, people will have no idea of how to interpret the survey options.
To me a docked anything used at the desktop is a desktop computer.
If the ideal computing environment for most people turns out to be using a mobile computer 2/3 of the time while docked, surveys that respond “desktop computer” for such use will obscure the data pointing to the importance of mobility.
OK, if you are through gazing at your navel, JK boys, I suggest you get back to finding something interesting to write about. I have to say that the quality of your posts has really started to fall off (and this inane “poll”) is just one example.
I don’t understand Sam’s point — why shouldn’t JK look to better understand their reader’s access methods? That should result in an improved product, no? I feel much better when the chef comes out of the kitchen and asks about my meal…
I just have an innate aversion to focus on style over substance. Go ahead and support multiple formats, but I would much prefer fewer and more data rich posts than pondering over formatting issues.
Thanks for the clarification, Sam. I think you are describing ‘device neutrality’ which might suggest useful content that is available anytime, anywhere on any device.
where is the phone w/ google reader option?
I read it from a Netbook, but I read it through bloglines.com/mobile, much better than the real thing.
BTW I said Netbook, suck it down Psion!