Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Fucking Feeds
There are lots of sites on the internet that have links called ‘XML’, ‘ASS’ or ‘Atomico’ all over the fucking place. These tell you that you can find out about updates to the site they’re on without having to visit the site in your web browser.
The feature is called ‘syndication’, ‘aggregation’ or ‘subscribing’, and you usually use a website such as Google Reader, desktop programs such as Vienna and even your own browser to read the fucking feeds.
Jimmy Boss thinks feeds and feed readers can be useful but have the potential of being a terrible waste of time, like television. Instead of mindlessly reading a bunch of shit other people say and following the herd, why not go and fucking CREATE something of your own.
And feed readers can encourage a hectic, super information overload life. If you’re interested in what someone has to say, why not go to the site and read the stuff there when you remember it exists. If you don’t, it probably wasn’t worth reading anyway!
Jimmy Boss out.
Commentary for Fucking Feeds
1 On 2008.06.28 at 07:57 GMT thus spake Charlie:
Hey Jimmy, guess what?
I just subscribed to the ATOMICO feed of the piece of crap website of yours:
http://jimmyboss.com/atom/?section=article
Don’t tell Charlie what he can or cannot do!
Charlie subscribes to any feeds he feels like subscribing to and no idiot, who just learned how to open a web browser is, can teach Charlie about the net.
Charlie