@#$%!!! Willy just spent 40 minutes writing this post only to have it lost when he tried to upload it. This is a learning experience. He should save; either by saving as a draft or just publishing each paragraph as it is written. This is the same strategy used in word processing.
Damn! He was on a roll too . . . .
Willy already had experience with RSS so he thought this module would go fast. Ha!
He has been using Sage on Firefox. It is a great RSS reader but it is client-side software--it has to be installed on each PC that is used and is also browser specific. But Willy is an itinerant PC user—always on the run--often using different browsers on different PCs. It takes too much time to maintain RSS for all of those situations. So Willy only had it installed on a couple of machines. The result is he was not using RSS the way it really should be used--regularly and often.
When Willy discovered Bloglines he went nuts (well ok, he was already nuts, so maybe he went psycho-nuts). Because it is a web service, rather than client-based software, he can now access it from any PC using any browser. RSS is great for him because:
- It allows him to reduce his environmental impact. He kills less trees by reducing hard-copy subscriptions. He is working towards, not a paper-less existence, but a reduced paper one.
- It allows Willy to organize and tailor the news he gets--increasing the quality and decreasing the time-cost in keeping up with the news.
- It allows Willy to use the time that would ordinarily be wasted waiting for things to happen, e.g., waiting for a patron on the reference desk. He also has client-side software (MobiPocket) that synchronizes RSS to his PDA. He uses this to read RSS while off-line, e.g., waiting in line at Costco.
http://www.bloglines.com/public/1265days
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