Dragaera

OT: a great ten rule

Fri Feb 27 11:14:41 PST 2004

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, David Goldfarb wrote:

@> >Hmm.  Reminds me -- I should probably see if Making Light is being
@> >syndicated to LJ, or can be.
@>
@> I just looked, and there *is* a <http://www.livejournal.com/users/makinglight/>
@> ...but all it has is the first couple of lines of text for each entry,
@> accompanied by a hyperlink to the entry itself on nielsenhayden.com.
@> You would get to read everything only on very short entries, and also
@> you would miss out on the comment threads, which are often marvelous.
@> I'm not sure why anyone would actually bother.

It informs you that an update has occurred, gives you some of the gist,
and provides a link that takes you directly to it. This is the way a lot
of the LJ syndications work, actually. It's still better than trying to
keep up with thirty sites at once, because you a) don't have to check them
when there aren't updates and b) end up right at the new material the vast
majority of the time.