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Join Date: May 2004
Location: New York City
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I was linked to this page and it got me to thinking just what is rss...
The idea is great: a personal, customizable news stream... but how well does it work in practice? who here uses rss feeds? on what sites? what rss client do you use? Do any web browsers support it natively? Anyone know of some relevant links that will help others understand the tech? I remember reading a review months ago that was pretty good but it didn't capture my interest... I'm going to test it out tomorrow but I figured I would start a thread to see how you all use the tech... 1215/234215 (top .51875%) People really have got to stop thinking there is only one operating system, one economic system, one religion, and one business model. -EvilTwinSkippy (/.) |
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I went through this epiphany about 6 weeks ago: I suddenly realised that RSS was very very cool.
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Basically, your client will periodically check the feed for new headlines, and present them them to you as "unread" items, often in a email-like kind of metaphor. Headlines sometimes come with some commentary, sometimes not. You click on the unread item, and double click/single click/hit return, depending on the program to open up a browser, internal or external to the program, which allows you to view the page. Quote:
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Having said that, Omniweb does something fairly similar (it checks your bookmarks to see if they have changed, at specified intervals, without RSS). |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Promise Land of Trustafarians
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I use NewsYouCanUse. It sits in the menubar. Sometimes it can get a bit slow, and it does crash a bit, but only when I try to open it while it updates itself.
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Student extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Canberra, Australia
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I use NetNewsWire Lite but only because I've never used anything else. It is free and has an Apple Mail like interface (only, obviously, for RSS).
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Join Date: May 2004
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But these days I don't really like rss anymore. Not enough of a benefit. I use it only for a bunch of blogs that aren't updated very frequently or that aren't that interesting. |
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