The Semantic Web
I found a really nice web-based news aggregator called Bloglines. It something like I was trying to achieve last spring, except it holds persistent data about which feeds have been read so that one can see if there are new postings one knows immediately as opposed to clicking through every feed to see what’s new. It even has a notifier to let one know when there are new postings on the blogs that are being monitored. I have all of my LiveJournal homies on this so that I can quickly see who’s updated and who hasn’t. I also have my news sites on there so checking for news is the same as checking for journal updates. God, I love XML.
I just wish that DiaryLand had RSS feeds available to its diarists. Or if they did that they would make it more obvious to their users the advantages of posting those links! DiaryLand needs to get off their asses and support the semantic web too! Not that LiveJournal has ever done a good job of this either, I discovered LiveJournal’s RSS by accident. Tack ‘rss’ on the end of any LiveJournal’s URL and you get the RSS feed!
Since I’ve gotten home, I haven’t done anything productive at all. I feel kind of bad about it, but I don’t know what I would do at the moment. As stressed as I’ve been, I don’t want to start anything. Furthermore, I would feel bad playing video games, because I’m supposed to be being productive (not that it’s happening in the first place). Sometimes I amaze myself.