This link caught my attention since it pointed out some cultural phenomena surrounding RSS news aggregator reading behaviors. Now there are jokes about guys like me. And guys who are more steeped in this than I'll ever be. I mean I can't look at my news aggregator on a daily or sometimes even weekly or monthly basis!
But I do love it when I get around to it. At least it is mentally stimulating and helps to shift the focus onto stuff that can actually be intriguing. Unlike say watching TV - even in light of things like the space shuttle destruction...
Ba-Tum-Tum.
Pat Kalaher, Donna Wentworth's brother-in-law, showed up in my Technorati Link Cosmos today. In addition to his wonderful Kalaher's Law of Obsessive XML Newsfeed Collection, he's trying his hand at punchlines:
"In response to One hour out of my day...
So the joke goes something like 'You know you're subscribed to too many RSS feeds when...'
... you need an aggregator for your aggregator?
...you need your own search engine?
...your network attached storage array can't keep up?
Of course, I'm the worst at making up jokes, particularly ones that would only be funny to a small number of people, if they work as jokes at all."
That last one is pretty funny, because we just got a huge network attached storage array at work to back up all of our servers. The big in-joke is that it's really just for my email. [The Shifted Librarian]
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