Thursday, December 19, 2002

ignore this post OK, that does it. I'm fed up with Radio Userland's news aggregator and will no longer be using it. When it works it is great. As I mentioned in my article on news aggregators, it is very convenient to just be able to plug an item from the news aggregator to my blog. But it keeps on chewing up articles! I read something & think - "hmm, that looks interesting, I might read or blog that, but not now." Then a day or two later I want to return to it and it's totally gone - even if I didn't mark it for deletion. [I just realized that this is an option that you can turn off - although they strongly recommend against doing this. I'm going to try it anyway, I'm usually pretty good about deleting what I'm not interested in. So you can ignore the rest of this posting] I think that I'll either use NetNewsWire Lite or AmphetaDesk instead. It'll mean more formatting work on this blog, but at least I won't be wasting time trying to refind those articles which disappeared from my aggregator. As an aside, over the next week I'll be testing the cool-looking OS X searching agent called SmartDog. 11:53:06 PM

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