More About Syndication
I’ve mentioned the fascinating world of syndication more than once.
You may not have believed me at the time. Here are some interesting things that I’ve been doing with syndicated feeds, however:
1. I have an account at last.fm. You can normally see the last tracks to which I have listened.
2. I use flickr.com to store photos that I want to have available on the web. You can see my photostream here (all the photos that I’ve uploaded appear here).
3. I’m a megalomaniac, endlessly fascinated by myself. I’m also insanely jealous of others that call themselves by my name. I keep tabs on photos of them.
4. On the same lines, I’m curious who is dropping my name these days. I use feedster.com to keep track of that.
5. I use gmail.google.com as my main webmail provider at the moment. I can be notified of new messages using a feed. (Note that this only works if I’m logged into gmail on your computer).
So, are any of you using syndicated feeds for anything?
If you are using Firefox, you can take advantage of Sage. It literally takes three seconds to install. I’m not kidding. Then all you need to do is restart your browser, click on Tools/Sage and start adding feeds.
If you are not using Firefox at this point, well… just don’t let me know.
GKarlsen
Holy Smokes!!!
I’m afraid the concept of syndication makes about as much sense to me as the silly Dobson Override McGuffin on “24″. And the Firefox is a Mach 3 capable Soviet MiG with thought-controlled weapons, not a web browser.
1. Last.fm doesn’t work for me at work so unfortunately I haven’t been making much use of it.
2. I don’t trust flickr.com they wants to steals our precious photos, yes, they wants to takes them. The webmaster can’t protect us, the greedy thiefs will takes them. We will keeps our photos on our nice computer, or with nice powweb, they won’t steal the precious photos, no.
3. There are Karlsens in abundance, I generally leave them alone.
4. I don’t imagine anyone is dropping my name.
5. I can’t see any reason to check your gmail account.
All-in-all I don’t have much use for your use of syndication.
But, I do use it to keep track of all y’all’s blogs, that way I can see that Roger and Lisa haven’t written anything without having to waste time visiting.