Tuesday, June 20, 2006

2600 Why I don't RSS you

Sure, it's easy, they say. But do I want more things to read? I just click on my favorite links which are right here to my left, recommended by me and occasionally updated. As it is, I subscribe to way too many newsletters, a method I prefer to RSS feeds. I hear from James Carville and some lady (Nikki?) at the LATimes for news from the left; I get Nathan Bierma who writes for the Tribune about language; Michael Yon for news from Iraq; Boogie Jack tells me web page code secrets; George Barna keeps me informed about surveys of Christians; I get a genealogy newsletter, and a film maker newsletter, and an adoption newsletter from Capital U.; James Taranto of the WSJ and Christianity Today alert me when they have something new to say; and I have on-line subscriptions to WaPo and NYT. Medscape tells me when one of you have commented, so I can go back and find it. Really, I don't want your RSS feed. I have enough to do feeding my own eight blogs. And then there's all that Viagra and ink cartridge and mortgage spam.

2 comments:

Cathy said...

My RSS feeds goes on to my Google page, of which you are one -- interestingly, your's is the only one that doesn't work and let me know when you post something new (though you are prolific enough in your writing that I rarely go to your site where you don't have a new posting).
By the way, I like your new background of flowers!

Norma said...

I've been told that before--that my RSS feed doesn't work--but I have no idea what to do, since I know nothing about it. I think it is my level of blogger (i.e. free).