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February 28, 2006
but i don't wanna be a luddite
I never try and hide my ignorance of web technology, and this blog site
has been a constant reminder of my own ineptitude. I spend an average of
5 hours a day on the internet. Mostly on music blog sites and Myspace and writing e-mail.
All this time, I've used Safari as my browser of choice. I like Safari. It's fast and
easy, but lately it hasn't worked so well with Chattablogs, so I decided to make
the plunge into Firefox. All my web-savvy friends have tried to explain how much
better it is than Safari because of RSS and so forth, and in reality I never knew what
they were talking about.
Today, however, I was cleaning up the default bookmarks in Firefox and
importing new ones when I noticed a little icon that read "Latest Headlines."
In my curiosity, I clicked on it and a whole lot of very recent headlines were
available as weblinks. 'What the hell is this?' I ask myself. Upon further
investigation, I found out that not only could I access BBC news headlines (which
I deleted), but I could access all of the most recent articles on my favorite sites:
BrooklynVegan, stereogum (which has a sweet mp3 feed as well), NPR,
yewknee. I'm in web/RSS heaven right now.
Yeah, I sound like a moron. But I was way pumped about this. Turns out you can
do this with Safari as well, but from what I can tell only in Tiger. I don't know
about IE, and don't really care. I know I came to the party late, but at least I
showed up, right?
So, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm glad. At least I wasn't alone.
But you have to check this out. RSS 2.0 is the best thing since RSS 1.0
Sites I couldn't figure out how to do this on:
Coke Machine Glow
Pitchfork Media
misc | By davidm | 06:55 PM
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I don't think a site as hideously designed as pitchfork would offer rss feeds.
Posted by: Matthew at February 28, 2006 09:12 PM
Ha!
We should see how many sites we can carry the Myspace joke to.
Posted by: davidm at February 28, 2006 09:37 PM
That sounds exhausting. Since you're into design and music you should check out tychomusic.com. Best band posters around and not a bad sound.
Posted by: Matthew at February 28, 2006 10:59 PM
you should try out Camino its based on Firefox but optimised for mac users http://www.caminobrowser.org/
Posted by: James at February 28, 2006 11:12 PM
If you like the tychomusic site check out his older site at iso50.com, it features more of his print work.
Posted by: Matthew at February 28, 2006 11:23 PM
tychomusic is news to me, but i love the stuff on the web. maybe it's just the site design, but it feels like old school polaroids set to music. like Air if they weren't so gay or french.
Posted by: davidm at February 28, 2006 11:33 PM
yeah, i've tried camino.
maybe i'm missing something, but it doesn't seem as easy to use as firefox. especially in the rss domain which is my tech d'jour.
Posted by: davidm at February 28, 2006 11:36 PM
well you can't have one without the other when you're dealing with the french.
Posted by: Matthew at February 28, 2006 11:38 PM
oh crap did someone mention Tycho and ISO50?!!?! I'm a Scott Hansen fanboy if there ever was one, currently working at collecting all his posters.
Posted by: James at March 1, 2006 01:44 AM