![]() They’re also published with the intent that it’s reasonably easy to discover and read them. When I asked Emma why her site didn’t, she claimed, “I think weblogs are about the content and the presentation” and she’s right… they are. The good news is that most weblogs I care about sport an RSS feed. I’m not going to explain RSS here, but I will point you at this. NetNewsWire does two things amazing well, first, it reads RSS feeds. Wondering what a credibility network is? You can probably guess, but I’ll explain in my next column. NetNewsWire gives me a terribly sexy data consumption rate by giving me great tools to manage my credibility networks. This is an additional violation my data freshness ethic. I can keep track of ten or twenty sites in my head, but more than that and I start wondering, “Did I already check this site?” Suddenly, I’m limiting the amount I can digest because my memory blows. The second problem is the time it takes to go to a site and figure out if there is new content. I want push because I want to know and I’m on the Net ALL THE TIME. I want to know as soon as humanly possible when something goes down and bookmark surfing is pull technology which means I only hear about when I happen to stumble on the weblog. Two problems with this process: first, I’m a data freshness nut case. Occasionally, I crawl through my bookmarks looking for changes. The next step is monitoring these weblogs. The person has credibility, not the website. So, I bookmark the site, but what I’m really bookmarking is the person because what I care about is not the content on their site, I care about how the person sifts through fact, fiction, and opinion and weblogs it. Finding the data on the weblog useful, I bookmark the site thinking, “Well, if she/he had that data surely they’ll write/find something else relevant”. I search for information on Google, say, “Safari change log” which invariably, points me at a weblog. ![]() Content is centralized and filtered by a person. The problem of high quality content is solved by a trustworthy individual finding and sifting through the web to find content they care enough about to post. Yes, you could use kill files to filter out the crap, but suddenly you’re spending more on your kill files than reading actually content.Įnter Weblogs. ![]() I know there was good content to be had, but I didn’t want to sift through crap to find the rare gems. Long ago, I read a lot of Usenet news, but over the years, the signal to noise ration grew intolerable. To understand the complete holy shit here, we first need some background. This product has allowed me to not only change the way I gather information on the Net, but it’s also given me the ability to digest much, much more information. The toy (which is not a toy) is NetNewsWire. This means if you ask me, “Hey Rands, what’s 7 + 3?” I first think, “How can the new toy help me answer this?” before I say, “10”. I tell every person I know about it, I construct my day around it, and every answer to every question passes through the new toy neuron in my head. I get really annoying when I find a new toy.
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