Friday, December 20, 2002

Yahoogroups RSS "It's a trivial hack but I created a web page that will help you create URLs for RSS feeds from Yahoo Groups mailing lists. It's hosted over on the archive at: http://feeds.archive.org/misc/yahoogroups/ The RSS generation feature of Yahoo Groups requires that the list's archives be publicly readable. If the archives aren't publicly readable then you can't get RSS from them without some cookie juggling. I keep about a dozen of these feeds subscribed in my aggregator. I came across several new lists recently and found it rather tedious to create RSS URLs for them. This greatly eases the process. Give it a try and, as always, feedback is appreciated." [Syndication News from Bill Kearney] I may just have to give this a try with the DITit2us Yahoo group comment [] 9:10:00 PM     Applying IT to IT. Marc Andreessen has an interesting article on applying IT to IT.  I think its fascinating that IT professionals are the most vociferous in stating why automation can't possibly be applied to what they do.  The emergence of ubiquitous networks and great software for managing desktops has turned that into an eminently automatable task.  IBM reports that they can deliver superior service with a tech to supported PC ratio as high as 350.  With a ratio of 1 to 175, we figured Utah would save $7 million per year.  Yet many IT professionals are reluctant to embrace these tools and change the way they work.   Why?  One reason is the same reason the longshoremen struck the West Coast ports: they're afraid they'll lose their jobs.  What a waste.  [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] comment [] 9:06:33 PM

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