RSS Bandit
If you are like me and read a bunch of blogs, it can get monotonous to click around to a hundred different web sites just to see if there is anything new. This is especially true for blogs that belong to friends. These might get a couple of posts a day for a few weeks and then go months without one. I am especially guilty of that.
Most blogs have RSS feeds. These are basically a different form of your blog that programs can poll for changes. All of us that have blogsot accounts have the option of allowing RSS feeds, and most of us have ours turned on. There are a number of programs out there that can download all these RSS feeds and let you view dozens of different blogs at a glance, much like reading email. The program that I use is called RSS Bandit. You can get it here. Here's a screenshot of what mine looks like:
posted by Daniel at 9:58 AM
3 Comments:
ooh...does that mean I'll be able to get my blog fix during the day now? Does it come to your email? Because apparently connecting to our blogs on a Metro network computer is synonymous with connecting to michaeljackson.com.
2:23 PM
Well ... no, this isn't email. It's a page, just like your normal blog. It's just more easily read through this tool than a browser. If your network administrators are blocking this stuff, then they are probably blocking anything from blogspot.com. If they aren't blocking but just logging your visits, then it will still show up as a blogspot.com site, which isn't good for you, either. However, if they just come by and snoop, then the tool will sort-of look like an email reader. You can try mine by pointing your browser here.
2:43 PM
rats...foiled again!
3:09 PM
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