Well I was supposed to do this before 10:00am Wednesday, but somehow I failed. In a week where we have dealt with Aztec ritual - have you any idea how unmemorable Aztec gods' names are - they all seem to be variations on Whatzicotl and Poxiwhatl, More's Utopia and Christian Humanism, the Power of Print and problems of illiteracy in the Early Modern World, and to top it off Cortes hacking and slashing his way through the Mexican jungle, there doesn't seem to have been much time for blogging, the web, or even reading anything that wasn't related to these not altogether enticing subjects. Huiziwhatls and Mixitotls seem to have begun muddling their way unpleasantly through my sleep. Today, however, I finally took the time to begin looking at RSS readers. I thought a poetry feed might be appealing and so subscribed, only to rapidly unsubscribe having waded through several turgid and uninspired so called verses. I tried again for an RSS on a different subject and this time found a handier feed on book reviews on history and travel books. At least this may bring my attention to books I might otherwise have missed, although at the moment they seem to be dominated by works on Kabul and Mount Everest, two areas that don't come into this otherwise rather wide ranging blog. I also took the opportunity to subscribe to a news feed on Canada, and came to the conclusion, that today at any rate, Canada did not have a lot of noteworthy news.
So what was my impression of RSS? Really Singularly Superfluous. At least at the moment, they make me feel like I am barraged with information, and while some of that information can be entertaining, I don't think I could hack keeping up with RSSs that were actually to do with my work, and otherwise I would sooner be reading my books. I think were I to use one in anyway to do with my teaching, it would have to be one that was updated minimally. I think I shall head back to Roman Africa now instead and, read along with St Augustine as he reviews his life in PPF (plain paper feed).
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The Rss feed reader is only ever as good as the feeds that go into it, of course!
Don't forget to show the links to some of the blogs that you talk so eloquently about here.
I'll post three blogs I've liked on OLiA.
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