On the Feedreader Bandwagon

22 January 2005 14 Comments

So I was talking to Marc James over at Sports Central on MSN this evening. Marc and I go way back. Our conversations usually went like this:

Me: Hey Marc!
Marc: Hey Aaron
Me: Nice site you have there
Marc: Thanks, I try
Me: When are you going to upgrade to vBulletin 3?
Marc: When 2.x stops working
Me: You realize that vb3 is newer right? :)
Marc: Yeah but it does what I need
Me: But vb3 has so many more features
Marc: I’m not upgrading, period.
Me: Alrighty. Whatever

Heh. As stubborn as he is, he runs one of the hottest sports commentary sites on the internet and I commend him for that. He turns 19 today.

In my conversation today, discussion turned to feedreaders. They are all the craze among the uberbloggers, but I just hadn’t jumped on the bandwagon.

Basically, you add the RSS/RSD/Atom/XML feed to the feedreader and it consolidates all entries into a single email-client-like format. Gone are the days of clicking on every blog you ever might read. Now read them like you read your email.

I knew the benefits. I just never jumped on board. Until tonight. I downloaded Feedreader and began the task of importing feeds from every single blog on my blogroll. There are a number of blogs I read that do not provide feeds because of software limitations (Firewolf for one), or who have decided to not enable their RSS links (Carol!), etc. These blogs I will now have to go out of my way to read, so don’t blame me if I don’t. :p

At any rate, here’s what I’m looking like at the moment:

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14 Responses to “On the Feedreader Bandwagon”

FireWolf 22 January 2005 at 12:42 am #

You know us hillbillies up here in carpetbagger land just ain’t so-fis-tee-kay-ted about them thar fancy stuff.

I love the tip about the feedreader tho and not every site i enjoy reading has it either (including yours) lol
FireWolf 22 January 2005 at 1:42 am #

You know us hillbillies up here in carpetbagger land just ain’t so-fis-tee-kay-ted about them thar fancy stuff.

I love the tip about the feedreader tho and not every site i enjoy reading has it either (including yours) lol
FireWolf 22 January 2005 at 12:45 am #

Scratch my last comments……..seems my Firefox and Netscape browsers aren’t showing your sidebars on the main page where my IE one is…….weird. Hafta fix that.
FireWolf 22 January 2005 at 1:45 am #

Scratch my last comments……..seems my Firefox and Netscape browsers aren’t showing your sidebars on the main page where my IE one is…….weird. Hafta fix that.
Aaron 22 January 2005 at 12:46 am #

Odd. I got that comment from another user tonight too. He was on OS X though.
Aaron 22 January 2005 at 1:46 am #

Odd. I got that comment from another user tonight too. He was on OS X though.
FireWolf 22 January 2005 at 12:55 am #

you show up great tho in Feedreader :)
FireWolf 22 January 2005 at 1:55 am #

you show up great tho in Feedreader :)
FireWolf 22 January 2005 at 12:57 am #

Hey, guess what….I do have site feed:
link

so :P my friend happy feedreading
I gotta post that on my site tho
FireWolf 22 January 2005 at 1:57 am #

Hey, guess what….I do have site feed:

link

so :P my friend happy feedreading

I gotta post that on my site tho
Carol 22 January 2005 at 9:51 am #

Gaah! Is there something I have to enable? Where? Why? How?
Carol 22 January 2005 at 10:51 am #

Gaah! Is there something I have to enable? Where? Why? How?
Vinnie Garcia 23 January 2005 at 2:45 pm #

I thought you used Thunderbird for e-mail. TB has had RSS support for months now; that’s what I use (though my RSS list is only people who update too infrequently for me to care about visiting their site)
Vinnie Garcia 23 January 2005 at 3:45 pm #

I thought you used Thunderbird for e-mail. TB has had RSS support for months now; that’s what I use (though my RSS list is only people who update too infrequently for me to care about visiting their site)