Using the long board…
I’m a clickster, an old fashioned net surfer, no hanging ten off the short board of RSS for me. I have aggregators up the gazatch of course. Sharpreader is a good one, if client based. Bloglines is fine too. But in the last few years I haven’t bothered to pull RSS feeds into a daily habit. I have a blogroll and I have people I read because I like what they write or I’m at least informed by it. Not everybody I read is a friend and not every friend do I read with anything like regularity. I bounce around and enjoy picking up threads where I find them. What need have I for the new-fangled feed gadgets? I find them as convenient as I would a distribution company dropping off a fresh newstand full of papers and periodicals on my doorstep every morning. Conceivably, if was a grad student in a library carrel I might set up an aggregator to support some research, but day to day? You can keep those silly short boards. I’m sticking to the long board for my surfing pleasure.
Speaking of which. I enjoyed this moment with Tamar Jacobson and her touch of writer’s block.