{"id":122,"date":"2008-04-20T21:37:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T04:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=122"},"modified":"2008-04-20T21:37:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T04:37:01","slug":"rss-a-more-efficient-way-to-waste-your-time-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/04\/rss-a-more-efficient-way-to-waste-your-time-online\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS &#8211; A more efficient way to waste your time online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you already use an RSS reader, go ahead and skip this one. If you don&#8217;t know what RSS is, read on. Actually, forget reading, just watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU\">this video<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncraft.com\/rss_plain_english\">Common Craft<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0klgLsSxGsU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Got it? Instead of wasting your time going through all of your bookmarks each day, not knowing if you&#8217;ll find anything new or not, you just check your RSS reader to see what&#8217;s new. It&#8217;s like email&#8230; you only check your inbox; you don&#8217;t check the &#8220;sent&#8221; folder of each of your friends to see if they&#8217;ve sent anything to you.<\/p>\n<p>I did a presentation on this in school, but unfortunately it&#8217;s on my old computer which I don&#8217;t feel like plugging in right now. Common Craft fortunately says it about the way I like to explain it, so no worries.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to RSS readers, I used to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgator.com\/individuals\/netnewswire\/\">NetNewsWire<\/a>, which is Mac-only. I&#8217;d just leave it running in the background all day (with no open windows), and whenever I got a new message, the Dock icon would update, just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/mail.html\">Mail<\/a> does for new emails (and now even <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?path=Mail\/3.0\/en\/15170.html\">RSS feeds<\/a>, if you choose to show them in your inbox). I could even browse the headlines just by right-clicking on the Dock, without cluttering my screen with another open window. There was no time wasted checking for new items; I&#8217;d only interact with it if I knew there was something new. If you only follow a few sites, there&#8217;s not even really a need for a separate application; you can use <a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.com\/en-US\/kb\/Live+Bookmarks\">Live Bookmarks<\/a> in Firefox or simply <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?path=Safari\/3.0\/en\/9348.html\">bookmark an RSS feed<\/a> in Safari. They&#8217;ll let you know what&#8217;s new.<\/p>\n<p>About a year ago, I stopped using NetNewsWire and started using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\">Google Reader<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/about\/disclaimer.html\">(disclaimer)<\/a><\/em> instead. The main reason behind this was that I now use multiple computers (including an <a href=\"http:\/\/googlereader.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/attack-of-20ers.html\">iPhone<\/a>) each day, so I needed an online solution that would keep the read\/unread status of each item in sync across machines. I always have a web browser open, so the fact that it&#8217;s web-based isn&#8217;t really a problem, but I do miss the Dock icon functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and my feed? It&#8217;s right here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/feed\/\">http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you already use an RSS reader, go ahead and skip this one. If you don&#8217;t know what RSS is, read on. Actually, forget reading, just watch this video from Common Craft: Got it? Instead of wasting your time going through all of your bookmarks each day, not knowing if you&#8217;ll find anything new or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/04\/rss-a-more-efficient-way-to-waste-your-time-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RSS &#8211; A more efficient way to waste your time online<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}