They say write about what you know, and since I’ve been spending hours of my time on FriendFeed, I am starting to know it fairly well.
Therefore, I am sorry that I’m contributing to the growing pool of I had this great conversation on FriendFeed and it inspired me to write this post-type posts, but this is going to be one.
Ok, I’m going to try to keep this short and sweet. But first, let me tell you why.
I believe I have a problem, perhaps genetic, that does not allow me to make sentences shorter than originally written or determine when an article has gone on for too long, resulting in things like paragraph-long sentences, long meandering digressions, people having to take a bathroom break before finishing one of my articles, and browsers crashing as they run out of memory.
That said, now I have even less space to write this article. Ok, let’s get to it.
It is very likely that you have at least heard of RSS, if from no other place than in my recent review of Google Reader. Well, in this primer we will dig down a bit and learn what RSS is capable of, and how its being used out there on the Internet.
When you are clicking around looking at different web sites, you are bound to visit one that you want to return to later. What do you do in that case? Simple, your web browser has a handy bookmark feature that allows you to save a link to the current site URL (otherwise known as a web address). Once you have a few bookmarks, you can organize them, get rid of the ones you don’t want any more, or even e-mail them to friends. However, web browser bookmarks are quirky — your web browser loves them, but if you want to edit already saved bookmarks, use a different web browser or even a different computer, bookmarks quickly become a pain.
