On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:06:44 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> 1. What's RSS?
>> 
>> RSS = Really Simple Syndication.  Equate to an Atom feed.  In fact,
>> your blog has this capability, it's how I know when you've posted
>> something new.
> 
> Heh. Well there you are... o_O

And here you thought nobody was reading your blog. ;-)

>>> 2. What actually *is* Slashdot? I keep hearing about it, but I'm still
>>> unclear on what it's supposed to "be".
>> 
>> http://www.slashdot.org - it's ostensibly a news site with a comments
>> system.  I find most of the comments are useless - there's a few "gems"
>> in there, but most of it is pretty inane.  The thing I read it for
>> (actually subscribe to it via RSS) is the articles, which include links
>> to actual news stories.  I find It's a good measure of what geeks find
>> newsworthy.
> 
> Apparently I'm not geek enough. To me, it seemed to be all business and
> politics...

There is some of that, but there are a fair number of technical 
articles.  I use Google Reader to scan the headlines and articles, goes 
pretty quickly that way.

Jim

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