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Blawgs Go Bye? And Aggregators...
Cruising through the blogroll, subscribing to feeds where I find them and checking on things before school starts next week and I get buried, I've found several sad gaps and one major hole. First, Dylan Goes to Law School has been dormant for some time—since last January. Veritable Cornucopia has been on hiatus since the beginning of May—has the team decided to call it quits?
The good thing about those sites is they're still online, meaning perhaps their authors will return someday, and even if they don't, their archives are still available for reference. But sadly it appears one of my favorite blawgs from last summer and fall— Liable—has completely disappeared—the domain has expired! Liable, if you're out there, we wish you the best and hope everything is going well for you.
In other (rather random) blogroll news:
- Dave's a gunner.
- Beanie has started her last year of school and it's like high school.
- Lawless Gal is having fun with OCI.
- Cinnamon has started 2L—she gets to watch movies in class! (Hey, does anyone know how to make a LiveJournal feed I can subscribe to?)
- Scherezade says: choose your seat with care. She's right, but I've always chosen kind of haphazardly and it's worked out ok. Not necessarily great, but not bad, either.
- Transmogriflaw has recently switched tracks from law student to mother-to-be. The switch is temporary; she plans to return to school after the baby arrives. This means she won't get her J.D. in 2006, but I'll still always think of her as part of my virtual cohort. Best wishes, Transmogriflaw—keep us posted!
Do you use an aggregator? Which one? How do you use it? Why do you use it? I've played with BlogLines, Net News Wire, Shrook, and PulpFiction. None of them really seem to bring all the speed and convenience that others have raved about, so I feel I must be missing something here...
Posted August 24, 2004 12:43 PM | meta-blogging
I use an aggregator to keep up with what I have and haven't read. I was using Feed Demon here at work, but I switched over to Bloglines because I can use it with both my work PC and my home iBook. The time savings comes once everything is set up, in that you don't have to click every link to figure out if something new has been published.
Posted by: kmsqrd at August 24, 2004 02:40 PM
Cinnamon's RSS feed is at: http://www.livejournal.com/users/spycygrl/data/rss/
Posted by: Schteino at August 24, 2004 03:23 PM
I'll "ditto" kmsqrd - I have a PC and a Powerbook, and want notifiers on both. It's really rudimentary (and slow), but it kind of works. Mostly. I'll still browse when I have time. :)
Posted by: Shelley at August 25, 2004 12:12 AM
OMG. I have NO idea what y'all are even talking about.
Posted by: Denise at August 25, 2004 01:05 AM
yep, bloglines is the only one I've found that does anything useful for me. I don't want an additional app open on my desktop; something web-based is easiest, and with the notifiers I don't have to constantly check in.
it does take some time to set up, no lie. but once it's done, you can pick and choose the updates you want to read. I usually end up clicking out to the sites anyway, for comments and whatnot.
Posted by: enitsirk at August 25, 2004 09:40 AM
I used to use Radio, when I first started blogging. When I moved the blog to MT, I still ran Radio just for the news aggregator for quite a while. Honestly though, it sucks.
Personally, I *love* BlogLines. I need something I can access through a browser, since I use three different machines at differnet points in my day. I also want something that supports RSS and Atom. Yeah, BlogLines does have some quirks, but I found them to be pretty responsive to user suggestions, and it fits the bill for my needs. I, too, resisted it at first, but after about a week, I sort of fell into a Zen with it, and now I couldn't live without it.
Posted by: -Dave! at August 25, 2004 10:54 AM
Thanks, AmBimb for the link and Schteino for the info! I have to admit that I don't even understand rss. I'm still figuring out this newfangled thing called "The Internet"
ha.
I know I need to get A REAL BLOG, but, well. I'm just lazy.
Posted by: Cinnamon at August 25, 2004 12:51 PM
Thanks, AmbImb. I still think of myself as your cohort, even if I'll graduate a year later. I think once a 1L in a certain year, always a 1L in that year.
I plan to keep blogging and will definitely keep everybody posted.
Posted by: transmogriflaw at August 25, 2004 05:33 PM
