January 10, 2008
feeds and things …
Every so often someone asks, "How do you read so much stuff every day?" and rather than shatter their illusions of me with the truth that I am an artful manipulator and far too lazy to read when I could be a) sleeping or b) eating, I tell them, "Oh, I just have a news reader with all of the RSS feeds of the 200 or so blogs I read, I just refresh it every so often it updates automatically all the new posts", and like with astrophysics, people hear, "bluurrbluurrbluurr", and I think, "Waah! I really wish I could explain things so people would go, 'Totally bodacious, dude!!!', how good would that be?".
So…
Instead of opening all those blogs in separate windows in Safari and seeing if there's anything new and experiencing disappointment, I started using NetNewsWire, quite a while ago, even deciding to pay for it (no!!! really??!?!), and have all my feeds from my favourite blogs, yes even yours, arranged into groups (I am, as you know prone to compulsive orderliness). I've also had my entire NetNewsWire subsciptions available for download from the bottom of my blogroll, so you can just download it from that link I conveniently provided, and import it into your favourite news reader, and enjoy my reading habits, including porn, and so spawn your own collection of blogs.
I never seemed to entice people into the seductive world of blog feeds, but ever since my recent success in getting a large number of friends completely addicted to and utterly in the thrall of Skype, and since the makers of NetNewsWire have just decided to offer that and the rest of their software for free, I thought the time is ripe.
Download NetNewsWire install it on your lovely Mac (delete all the unnecessary feeds that come as default, they're kinda like the default bookmarks in Safari no one uses), download my rss feeds, import them into NetNewsWire (in the File menu), hit refresh (apple-shift-r), (be horrified at what smut appears and vow never to speak to me again)…
Fall in love with the joy of reading all over again.