A Zen gay Texan’s perspective

Started using an RSS aggregator to collect my various web surfings into one place, check it out:

Bloglines

For those of you not familiar with the concept, RSS provides a ‘feed’ of articles/blog entries from a site in XML format, a universal data format. Aggregators are programs or websites that poll these (usually hourly) and list all your various articles. They tell you which ones are new (Bloglines has a tiny popup that I can sit in the corner and will tell me when one of my sources has a new entry). Look for the link titled “RSS” or an orange XML button on sites for the RSS URL feed. Mine’s in the bottom right on the sidebar titled “Syndicate this site (XML)

Gene Smith at Atomiq talks about how feed splicing and agreggators are making the concept of ‘websites’ somewhat obsolete. Doesn’t matter so much where I get my news from, but what posts and articles I’m actually reading.

August 23rd, 2004 at 4:34 pm