GNHLUG RSS feeds, was Re: GNHLUG.Www - Automated notification of topic changes

[Tom Buskey]

On 5/2/06, Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:39 -0400, Ted Roche wrote:
> > 2003 and 2004, iirc: http://www.tedroche.com/papers.php
> >
> > What sort of aspects would you (or any others, please) be interested
> > in?
>
> For some of us, that question is its own answer in a sense.  Part of
> what I'd like to know is "Why should I be interested in RSS, and what
> aspects are there?



I was using the Sage extension in firefox and now I use bloglines to read
RSS feeds.  I've been using RSS for about a year now.

If you're an old internet user, RSS is like news groups.  It shows the
headlines of each subject you haven't seen yet.

So, instead of going to slashdot.org, I read the RSS and see only the newest
headlines that I didn't see the last time I went to my RSS reader.

If you keep up on a number of web sites, RSS lets you see just the stuff
that's changed.  If you want more info you can drill down into the link.
Some readers allow you to keep something new every time you go to the
reader.

RSS lets me skim many more websites in the same amount of time.  Or the same
sites in less time.  It's great to get the latest from NY Times, O'Reilly,
Slashdot, Sun BigAdmin, Debian News, etc...  And you don't have to sift
through the stuff you already saw.

I'm sure there's more to RSS then that, but that's what I get from
bloglines.com and Sage.




--
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad
measures.
  - Daniel Webster
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