Techmology - Eez It Good?

Along with more frequent postings, another one of my goals is to become a much more efficient time-waster. I generally spend a few hours a day doing web research on microfinancing, keeping up with the news, checking out the Asian Babe of the Week, and so forth. However, I've decided that I'm just not wasting my time wisely enough.

After monitoring my behavior over the past week or so, I've come to the realization that I use a lot of bandwidth returning to sites to check if they've been updated. With the advent of RSS a few years ago, that kind of thing is no longer necessary. From now on I've vowed that I'll be running an RSS News Aggregator (NetNewsWire is my early preference) to keep me automatically alerted to any updates.

Currently, I'm using it to monitor all my favorite freedom-hater blogs, relevant news stories, and anything concerning Microfinancing. I've got the RSS feeds for Daily Kos, Eschaton, and a couple of other blogs. As for news, I'm continuously monitoring Google News for any articles published by any of the 4500 news sources about Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. Every time a new article is written, this magical application sucks it down off the net and regurgitates it directly into my brain like a well-read mama bird.

I figure it'll also come in handy when we're in Africa and internet connections aren't readily available. With a newsreader, I'll be able to plug in whenever I get a connection, fire up the application and hit "Update" to download all the recent postings. Then I'll be able to read everything offline at my leisure.

My only complaint is that the Asian Babe of the Month doesn't have an RSS feed. Oh well. I guess one can only expect so much from technology.

By the way, this site has been publishing an RSS feed for about two years. The link can by found by doing a page search for the words "Subscribe to this blog's feed" or by simply clicking here.

Posted by flow Frazao on January 2, 2006 at 03:14 PM in Cool Stuff, Me, Web/Tech | Permalink