Caught Sampling Weblogs and News Sites Again
For a friend who hasn't used an RSS feed reader, doesn't see the
advantage over browsing from site to site with Internet Explorer... and
who can't be here to look over my shoulder: These are individual items
from some of the newsfeeds that flow into my aggregators.
I was able to snag them pretty quickly from the 200 or so items that
had accumulated in the past 24 hours, based on "just" 30 news sources.
With luck, I'll come back and read the full stories. With even more
luck, I'd find time to "blog" a bit about them, but that probably won't
happen today. I
did say "aggregators" (plural): I have more than a dozen of them
running on two computers as a test. On my Macintosh, I'm using Radio (which also publishes this blog), NetNewsWire and Shrook. On my Windows machine... well, I'll save that story for later. There are more examples of newsfeed items on the group and individual
aggregator pages at the Harvard weblog site. (I'm really getting to
dislike the cumbersome word "aggregator," enough to not notice when I
start to spell it with two a's, on the way to "aggravator." Is that a
sign of information overload?)
Anyhow... In the rest of today's items below, the square
brackets mark the original feed sources. All of the indented blocks are
verbatim. The pound signs or sharps are coded to give a unique
"permalink" address for each item. That's in case you want to bookmark
or link to an individual story. (Although each piece automatically gets
a "comment" link, any comments really should go to the authors of the
original items.)
I feel a bit guilty just reposting quoted material like this, some
second or even third-hand links, without having time to read all the
details and add my own reactions instead of putting them all here as an
attention-deficit "to-do" list. But it's not sinful, it's Syndication, one of the S-words in "RSS." And, even when I'm in a hurry, it's Really Simple.
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