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~mild rant directed at friends who don't have feeds on their sites~ Hey, guys, there's no excuse for not having an RSS feed if you use Blogger. It's easy. Click on your settings tab, and then site feed. Select RSS (not Atom, pls) and give your feed a name...something original like rss.xml. Put your feed

Yesterday a colleague asked me why I was teaching him about RSS. He thought it was cool, but didn't think it was my job to introduce employees to new technology. He right -- on paper my job is to manage a public web site. However, my job as I choose to define it is to

My team of merry cohorts and I have been exposing to our co-workers to the world of RSS. We've provided an overview of RSS, an introduction to Bloglines and a starter set of feeds. People have promised to give it a try for a month or so and provide feedback to us. All well and

I loved this article on Wired "Revenge of the Right Brain": "...the curtain is rising on a new era, the Conceptual Age. If the Industrial Age was built on people's backs, and the Information Age on people's left hemispheres, the Conceptual Age is being built on people's right hemispheres. We've progressed from a society of

Just read Feature Films Without Wires on Wired. They've successfully shown a feature film without the film being present...sounds almost as wonderful as television. But wait! This is exciting because it changes the way feature films are distributed to theaters...and maybe leaves room for new films to be distributed directly to consumers? It's true. Not

She: "The tape ran out, so we didn't get to see the end of the movie!" Me: "I don't want to ruin anything for you, but the tanks at the end are amazing." She: "No! Nononono! Don't tell me!" Me: "And the part where she takes a bullet for the other girl? Made me cry."

"So how did yoga class go?" "Fine...until we started poses to work on balance." "Did you fall down?" "No, nothing like that. We were working on this pose called tree..." "Uh, oh." "...yeah, I don't know where they come up with these names. Anyway, the yogi told us to bring our hands over our heads

I know it's possible to scrape a feed for a particular site, but what about scraping a feed consisting of many sites? I ask because I find that when I'm in a hurry, I click on category names in Bloglines and read everything under that category. It made me wonder if I could create category

I've been mulling over the mess that my RSS subscriptions were/are/will ever be and I haven't come to any conclusions about categories and how to consistently apply them to feeds. However, I have been busy renaming the feeds that I subscribe to -- my feeds now begin with the person's name. This reinforces the thought

Sometime ago, Will Richardson of Webblog-ed News was talking about how it may be possible for grade school/high school students to have a complete records of their educational experience -- papers, essays, assignments, etc.-- in one place via the magic of blogs and/or wikis. Students could build on past work and have a collection that