RSS; my new favourite technology
Up until a week or so ago, my morning routine on arriving at work consisted of opening a web browser (Firefox of course) and reading through the lastest news. I typically started with general interest and business news courtesy of CBC and then moved my way through various technology news sites, such as Wired.
However, since I upgraded to KDE 3.4, I’ve now converted to an RSS junkie, via Akregator, KDE’s built-in RSS reader. As a result I no longer have to visit each news site to see what’s new as Akregator does it for me. That also means that if a site doesn’t have an RSS feed, I no longer visit it.
I suspect that many news sites are resisting RSS as they fear it will reduce traffic and thus reduce income for advertising. I suspect that would be the case if they included the entire article within the feed but if they go a route similar to Wired, traffic will likely not be affected. For each feed article, Wired has a brief overview and if the story sounds interesting, I can click on the link for the complete story, which takes me to the Wired site. Voila! I’m back on Wired’s site as if I had visited the site via a bookmark.
I love making my life easier.
Fri, 01 Apr 2005 01:28 Posted in Technology
