October 26, 2004
Always In the Know
For years, I have subscribed to multiple mailing lists to stay up to date on things that interest me...web design, web artists in nyc, Legolas' hair color...
Getting hundreds of messages in my in-box never scared me, I felt I was always up to date with the latest latest, and I heard about things before they were reported on the news.
Now I have a whole new obsession...and I am late to the game on this one! RSS aggregators. I have known about aggregators like Amphetadesk for years, but apparently in the last year or so the content that people are making available for syndication in finally compelling enough for me to opt in. Oh, and there's NewsGator, which lets me read the web sites I subscribe to in Outlook, AND I can read the few Usenet newsgroups which still interest me, all in the one program I use to organize my life. (I am saving my Outlook rant for another day)
What this means for me is that instead of surfing to the thousand or so web sites that interest me every day, I can subscribe to their RSS feeds, and get updates in Outlook about the latest article or news. This includes content from the New York Times (registration required to see link), BBC, and my favorite web logs. All I have to do is right click on the the RSS syndication link on a site that interests me, and my software knows to go grab the latest info every hour. I am sooo overwhelmed! And such a voyeur!
NewsGator offers a free online service for consumers who want to get their RSS fixes online, it's worth trying out. We will be making this and other columns on Trigger available via RSS once we figure out how to do that.
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Posted by Trigger Tech at October 26, 2004 12:12 AM Permalink
