On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:45:23PM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:39 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > > 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?
The short answer is you, as a knowledge worker, can better keep yourself informed with what is happening out there in news, (tech|politics) blogs, wikis, and pretty much any frequently-updated site. A lot of search sites (google, technorati, MSN search, etc) let you setup searchs that return in RSS format. For example anytime someone mentions, say my name, in a blog, it shows up in the aggregator. Flickr lets you create feeds based on particular tags, say all those photos tagged with MySQLUC06. My personal RSS aggregator of choice is currently http://bloglines.com with over 300 feeds (not that it is ever 'caught up') It really changes the way I use the web. No longer do I hit slashdot.org, cnn.com, cnet.com, sourceforge.net looking for new info. Nor do I have to remember to check in with amusing blogs like jwz.org to see if he has updated -- now it just shows up in my list of feeds. -marc -- Marc Nozell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.nozell.com/blog _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
