More RSS Evangelism

RSS really is incredibly useful. You can get the latest entries in a blog or a news site organized like email, so you can quickly see what has been written since the last time you checked without visiting 10 different sites, and only read the ones you want from the subject lines.

The best RSS readers I've come across for windows are SharpReader (nice and simple) and RSS Bandit (more features, a little steeper learning curve). For Mac there's the lovely Net News Wire. There are plugins for Evolution for linux as well, and as always a ton of different apps for whether you swing GNOME or KDE or are one of those console freaks. There's also the Aggreg8 extension for FireFox.

There's an RSS feed for this blog here or from the 'Atom' icon on the side bar. You can get a feed from nearly all blogger sites by entering the url http://<blah>.blogspot.com/atom.xml . There are also feeds for boing boing, this piece of shit blog, MetaFilter, SlashDot and pretty much every other web site that is updated regularly. (look for an xml, rss, or rdf logo thingy, or Atom)

The other advantage is not having to look at people's crappy site design to read their content.

Here's a screenshot of sharpreader: