OT or not?
After some weeks checking it out, it seems to me that there's a loose-knit blogging fraternity of sorts, which consists in good part of some real Mac (and occasionally other system) "geeks" who swap news and views with one another this way.
Blogging is like everything else on the net, sometimes it's very interesting, sometimes its rubbish - and there's quite a debate going on now among journalists about blogs and their impact on the news world.
There are plenty of people out there who use blogs as kind of "web diaries", linking to URLs that interest them and potentially others - of all imaginable types, as far as I've seen. Again, some people's opinions I'd take note of because they interest me too, others I wouldn't bother to subscribe to.
One definition of a good blog would be a place where you can get a quick summary of the site to which you're being sent, to follow up if it grabs you.
I've seen several other definitions, not all of them flattering.
I know nothing about CSS and not much more about the "RSS feeds" I use to subscribe to various blogs, but there's nothing better than an example to show you how it works for me:
As you can see, NetNewsWire Lite here lists 51 blogs I'm currently subscribed to, ranging from BBC headlines to African news and all the way through Mac sites to my various other interests.
It currently tells me there are 500 plus stories of potential interest available.
In fact, now I've got the hang of using it efficiently and fast, it takes me surprisingly little time to whip through those headlines (in this instance, music stories from Africa), and the ones I want to explore further I click on and they come up in my browser.
With practice, I've found it as fast as browsing by conventional means, and I find it useful in my daily working life to have some of that info available in this fashion.
Let's say,
Jim, that I find it complementary to the kind of thing I'd want to do with our beloved URL Manager Pro.
