Wouldn’t It Be Nice – Part 1
I aim to post a good few technical posts here, starting with this one. Please let me know how I’m doing as far as content and readability goes, also I’m welcome to suggestions on what I should talk about next.
It’s really amazing how much we’ve come to rely on the Internet for information. From news and current events to catching up with friends on Facebook and reading up on topics of interest, it would be a trivial matter to find ways we can spend most of our time awake absorbing a lot of that information.
Strengths and weaknesses are complimentary, and it’s in the vastness of information contained on the Internet that we see one of its greatest strengths and weaknesses.
- Its size and has allowed it to easy surpass all other mediums as the first point of reference for any search for information, from various sources of directions to the phone numbers of the people we know, the Internet is the ultimate reference point for our information needs.
- The same vastness that makes the Internet useful makes it an easy way to be distracted and waste time without even purposing to do so. One example I’ve seen is finding a new web comic and then spending hours looking through years worth of the strip. Garfield strips dating all the way to the 80s got me bad a few years ago!
I’m not posting this to point out a problem, but rather to promote a technology which can save a lot of time spent checking various website for up-to-date information.
This is where the title of this post comes in, wouldn’t it be nice if your favourite websites just sent you the latest updates instead of you having to go and check for it? Wouldn’t it be nice if you were able to get the latest headlines from your favourite news websites, updates from all of your friends’ blogs, and the latest articles from sites like InFocus, without having to check every site for updates?
Visit here again in a week for a run through RSS and how it can help you channel the information that is relevant to you straight to your computer with absolute minimal hassle!
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Good topic choice. I really think RSS is *the* answer to the time-waste aspect of the web.