Forgive me as I tie up loose ends on my site regarding the whole RSS/Copyfight thread (which Donna already brought full circle). The upshot is that Alex Macgillivray is now providing a second RSS feed for Copyfight, and this one includes titles, permalinks, and the first 150 words of the post, plus it's updated every 20 minutes. Thanks, Alex!

Dave Seidel also chimed in to extoll the virtues of the Lazyweb approach over using a third-party tool like RssDistiller:

"Sure, this empowers Jenny, but I like her approach better because it's the activist approach: teach the content providers that they need to syndicate to participate more fully in the information ecosystem."

However, I have to note the choice quote Donna received from her brother-in-law, chiding her for lack of an RSS feed:

"Wrote Pat: 'The size of my RSS/RDF news feed doubles every 6 months...IMO, you're either syndicated, or nobody's reading you.' "

Wow - I wish I'd tracked how quickly the number of feeds in my aggregator has grown - can't believe I didn't think to do that. Sigh. Jim McGee refers to himself (and therefore Pat and me) as "RSS Bigots." The only thing I would add to that is to prepend the word "avowed" and print it on my business cards.

I had a long day at work today, and I was able to sit at my computer for all of five minutes so I wasn't able to read my aggregator at all until 9:00 p.m. tonight. I'm now reading 190 feeds in there. It took me ONE HOUR to scan every post on those 190 sites today. I'm now going back and reading through some of the ones I saved, but I basically got up to speed on the entire day's events in ONE HOUR. If you don't think RSS saves you time and makes you more efficient, then get a stopwatch and see how long it takes you to manually scan 190 sites. You can't even click to 190 sites in ONE HOUR.

Did I mention it took me ONE HOUR?