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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:59:31 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
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>> So, you want to keep up with the tech industry?
>
> Not *especially*, but...
>
>> Subscribe to a slashdot RSS feed.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 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.
> 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.
Jim
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:41:27 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> I just avoid it.
Avoid the discussions, read the stories.
Jim
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>> 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
>> 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...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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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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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Ah, but did you implement a 9D Hypercardigan? ;-)
Is that some sort of modern "upgrade" of the pocket protector? ;P
-Mike
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> And here you thought nobody was reading your blog. ;-)
Yeah, apparently...
>> 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.
IME, headlines tend to be wildly misleading.
(E.g., "I was pregnant for 3 years!" When you read the story, actually
she had a liver infection that made her *look* pregnant for 3 years...)
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:13:31 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
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>> And here you thought nobody was reading your blog. ;-)
>
> Yeah, apparently...
I don't comment often, but I always read the new entries. Like I said, I
find you to be a good writer, and the topics you write about are
interesting - though like anyone else, the amount of interest varies from
post to post.
>>> 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.
>
> IME, headlines tend to be wildly misleading.
>
> (E.g., "I was pregnant for 3 years!" When you read the story, actually
> she had a liver infection that made her *look* pregnant for 3 years...)
That's why I use it as a source to see what I should read about - I don't
just look at the headline (well, usually, I do - and that's what I use to
determine if I want to read more). If the story looks interesting, then
I'll read the referenced article, because /. nearly always includes a
link to the source article, and that's where the good info is.
IOW, I use it as a news filter for geek-related topics.
Jim
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:13:21 -0500, Jim Henderson wrote:
> That's why I use it as a source to see what I should read about - I
> don't just look at the headline (well, usually, I do - and that's what I
> use to determine if I want to read more). If the story looks
> interesting, then I'll read the referenced article, because /. nearly
> always includes a link to the source article, and that's where the good
> info is.
>
> IOW, I use it as a news filter for geek-related topics.
Incidentally, this is a similar technique to how I read this forum - I
just cruised through 300+ messages (been busy with work the past few
days), so I look at the subject lines, and if the subject looks
interesting, then I read a few messages. Stopping every once in a while
to see if the topic has changed.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Incidentally, this is a similar technique to how I read this forum - I
> just cruised through 300+ messages (been busy with work the past few
> days), so I look at the subject lines, and if the subject looks
> interesting, then I read a few messages. Stopping every once in a while
> to see if the topic has changed.
I used to do that on these newsgroups while offline, a few years ago.
I looked for interesting subjects, marked them for download, and connected
to my dialup ISP for a few minutes at night (when phone is cheaper) to get
them :)
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:44:36 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Incidentally, this is a similar technique to how I read this forum - I
>> just cruised through 300+ messages (been busy with work the past few
>> days), so I look at the subject lines, and if the subject looks
>> interesting, then I read a few messages. Stopping every once in a
>> while to see if the topic has changed.
>
> I used to do that on these newsgroups while offline, a few years ago.
>
> I looked for interesting subjects, marked them for download, and
> connected to my dialup ISP for a few minutes at night (when phone is
> cheaper) to get them :)
Yeah, that was really common for me on CompuServe as well, until I got a
sponsored account. :-)
Jim
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