It seems RSS is the new HTML table. At least back when HTML tables were cool (1993?). RSS, if you aren’t geek enough to know, allows you to read blogs without actually having to go to the blog and deal with all their graphics and links and stuff. It’s the ultimate lazy blog-reader’s heaven. Read multiple blogs, in one place, in like thirty seconds flat. No having to click around the internet.
Several of my favorite blogs are available in RSS or some similar device. Does that mean I’ll make mine available in RSS? Not so fast there, spanky. That takes work, and we here at particleman.org are notoriously lazy – and swamped with school work. We also don’t know if a blog needs to be hosted by blogger, typepad, moveable type, or some other purveyor of blogging software to work with RSS. If you had a chance to look at the code that runs this page, you’d scream, cover your eyes, and run away. Far, far away.
In conclusion (we love concluding paragraphs), it remains to be seen whether particleman.org will ever see the light of RSS. Maybe this winter. Maybe this summer. Maybe when I get a legal job in Austin.
Maybe not.
Comments (15)
In fact, here is an RSS feed to start using right now. http://feed43.com/3247287717818643.xml
Posted by JRF | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
URL: http://www.jforsythe.com
Okay, I know I am late to the "get you on RSS party" but boy...it would sure be nice. Here are some ways I subscribe to blogs that don't offer native RSS http://feed43.com/ http://www.feedwhip.com/ http://www.feedyes.com/ http://feedtier.somee.com/ or you could always install this :D http://www.kalsey.com/tools/blogfeed/default.htm
Posted by JRF | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
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YES. i'll give it a shot. but with RSS, doesn't that discourage comments? my comments have become a little like a bar. people get sleazy and hit on each other.
Posted by p-man | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
URL: http://www.nerdygirl.com
I just wrote my own last week. If you like, I can totally send you the file I made to generate an RSS feed. You'll just need to edit the call to the database and it should work without any hassle. It will be awesome.
Posted by rebecca | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
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um, yeah. i'm gonna leave that one alone out of the goodness of my heart.
Posted by p-man | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
hey... it may be a sausage fest, but we have some hot girls in the engineering school... wait a sec...
Posted by john | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
.... pman 1.. cherz 0... you win this round....
Posted by cherz | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
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at least i don't go to school with a bunch of smelly guys. would that make it a "smelly sausage fest"? i belive it would.
Posted by p-man | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
URL: http://www.cherz.com
john beat me to it. yea man.. it's quite easy. ... even a lawyer could do it. *snicker*
Posted by cherz | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
URL: http://www.henroid.net
dude... it's SO easy... just query your mysql database with the last five entries then create an rss/xml file that creates the feed... i could even create one... it's that easy. go rss... or i will make fun of you... more so.
Posted by john | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
there may be a flaw in one of your assumptions, p-man...
Posted by heatherfeather | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
h - yes, there is a way you can look at all of you celebrity gossip trash in one convinient, centrally-located location. pretty cool, huh? better get on it! hf - wow. that is a lot of bloggage. you must be the most efficient person in the world to read all those blogs and get your papers done...
Posted by p-man | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
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wait, you mean there's a way i can look at all my celebrity gossip trash blogs at work without having to clear the history everyday? i mean, hypothetically, if i looked at blogs like that. which i don't. i swear.
Posted by heather | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
i mean, who has time to go to <a href="http://bloglines.com/public/swandive00" rel="nofollow">all these websites</a> every day?
Posted by heatherfeather | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
Some time ago, I really needed to buy a house for my firm but I did not earn enough cash and could not order something. Thank heaven my sister suggested to take the loan at reliable bank. Thence, I acted that and was satisfied with my short term loan.
Posted by BarrettLenore33 | June 21, 2010 2:50 AM
Posted on June 21, 2010 02:50