RSS Feedings
A weblog system now a days would be almost worthless if it didn’t have all the extra bells and whistles. Some allow you to skip the HTML lessons and just help you get your information online. Others do that but also let you dig into it’s guts to make it your perfect tool for publishing online.
As for this guy - I didn’t have all these nice little tools to do what I wanted to do. I had books and various sites that taught me how to program my own tools. Most of which I was to lazy to actually get around to writing. Over the span of time I started to use my first Weblogging Content Management Tool called Greymatter.
Nobody talks about that system anymore because Noah (the original creator) found photography and didn’t continue with the software. Hundreds of people like me migrated to the system and many like me hacked away at it until it finally did what you wanted it to do.
Now, new ideas are floating around the web and people are doing more with these tools at hand. One of them being RSS Feeds. RSS isn’t something new - it’s been used in various instances since its birth in 1999 by Netscape. Recently, however, RSS Feeding has grown exponentially with the rise of webloggers.
If you remember me saying earlier in a round about way - My system is old. It’s not that I can’t easily upgrade but it’s the time I don’t have to do it. The other part of it is that I still like writing everything by hand. I have a love hate relationship with Content Management Tools. They work beautifully and can save you tons of time, but I still like typing away on Notepad or BBEdit and seeing everything come alive.
With the growth of RSS, I’ve decided it’s about time I start figuring out what it was and how to do it. Last night I came up with theParagon.ORG’s first RSS feed.
It was amazingly simple but I know there’s much to learn. Right now I write my feed by hand but hope to automat it soon enough.
For those of you using NetNewsWire - feel free to suck in my feed for the time being. Hopefully I can keep up with it but will note that it may go away. Right now I’m just learning. Until then - have fun and having feeding :-)
