![]() ![]() 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. If you happen to stop using it for some time, you can pick up where you left off without any extra charges.I get really annoying when I find a new toy. This price model can be much more ideal for some as it’s easier to fit in your budget as you don’t have to worry about it contributing to your monthly upkeep.
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