If You Don’t Have a Syndication Feed …
… I just don’t follow you anymore.
Sorry.
I just like my syn-feeds too much. It makes it easy. It manages the slew of links for me.
I’ve advocated FeedDemon before, and while it’s a great program, I’m currently grokking Feed on Feeds. I like having it on the server. I consume feeds both at work and at home; since there aren’t any work-specific feeds, it makes sense to have them all on one box.
I don’t regret the FeedDemon purchase one bit; I might even start using it again.
But again … if you don’t have syndication, chances are I’m not following you much anymore, despite me perhaps wanting to do so.
Sorry.
Hmm, sounds familiar.
Syndication is the “next big thing”. I forget where (tried to find it) but I’ll paraphrase the best summation I’ve seen:
If you think you can’t follow 100 or more web sites on a daily basis, your vision is limited by your toolset.
February 13th, 2004 at 02:35maybe you’ll have to explain this to me, too.
February 13th, 2004 at 03:40RSS feeds
February 13th, 2004 at 11:29Okay, so I’ve been hearing about this forever now…but I’d never taken initiative to get a program, or to even really check out this world of RSS syndication, until yesterday. I figure, if Geof held it in such high regard…I should check this …
I’ve only been playing around with it the last couple of days and it’s like my new crack, and I agree about sites that don’t have RSS feeds. Sites that don’t have RSS feeds make baby Jesus cry.
Now if Blogger could just join the craze then a number of people who are bookmarked as “friends” could be added and my list of non-RSS feed sites would be almost nil. I should have around 40+ if not 50, or so feeds being watched by sometime today.
February 13th, 2004 at 13:16That’s great. So, uh, for all you’ve said about these syndication feeds, Geof, I’ve never once seen you actually say what they are. So, what’s it and why do I needs it?
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February 13th, 2004 at 18:24(hey, I trusted you on Trillian and Firebird/Firefox, and you were dead right on both counts. So gimme a little english here and I just may trust you on this one, too.
Keith:
A couple links:
http://rss.lockergnome.com/resources/articles/q-and-a.phtml
http://rss.lockergnome.com/resources/articles/quickstart.phtml
[Those are RSS-specific; RSS is the predominant syndication format of today, but it probably won't be in three years. But unlike tapes and CD's, most aggregators read both RSS and Atom--or soon will.]
A syndication feed exports the content of a Web site into a stripped-down format that tells you when, where, and what was posted. For example, when I read your Weblog just now, I first read the RSS feed. That indicated that you had written something that I hadn’t read before. When I scanned the first few bits of the content, I realized, “I want to read this, and probably comment on it,” so I clicked on through.
In short, I skimmed at least half of your latest post without ever pulling up your Web site. In the very same window where I saw new content from you, I could have seen new content from any number of other sites. Only stuff I haven’t read before is presented to me.
Rather than me have to go around and play the “have I read this?” game, the aggregator pulls it all together for me and puts it all in a nice, neat package.
February 13th, 2004 at 22:05Sounds pretty cool. That’s kinda what it seemed like you were talking about.
Soo every time I fix a little typo in my blog or tweak my as-of-yet-unfixed title, I have you looking over my shoulder? (Which is pretty often. I’m a little obsessive compulsive about that kind of thing)
February 15th, 2004 at 15:57Well, not really. The way WP publishes an RSS feed [dynamically], it’ll only show an update when a new post is made. It will change the feed data, though.
February 15th, 2004 at 16:17Need For Consumption
February 22nd, 2004 at 12:05Now, you know that I really only follow stuff with syndication feeds nowadays. I just have too many other things I like to do on the Web [and offline] to check through a bunch of links [even though I give you most everything in my feed-list over in yo…