What do you mean with «liv[ing] a fantasy», the root poster wrote that browsing RSS is not an ideal session like reading the newspapers because through RSS there would be overflow and sieving - but the same is valid for newspapers unless you read a dazibao, so the fantasy seems to be that of the root poster...

I wrote about many of those reasons in the blog post.

Cutting off the middle-man, slowing down the hectic life and staying in touch with my internet friends are a few of those reasons.