Thursday, June 17, 2004 - Thu, 17 Jun 2004

Dick Eastman decided to experiment by making his newsletter available as a Blog. Of course, I’ve got my Behold blog (which you are now reading) so he perked my interest up again. Back when I first set up this blog (Nov 2002) I experimented with Blogger.com, which has since been taken over by Google, and built my own template based on one of theirs. However, I decided to do this as straight html for a few reasons. Since then, I have had a few inquiries as to whether I supply an XML feed. This is something new I really didn’t know about. I downloaded the free SharpReader (which Dick recommended) so that I can experiment with blog feeds and blog readers. Blog feeds appear to be the newfangled method of reading online content, to add to the plethoria of ways already available (e-mail, maillists, newsgroups, forums), but they do appear to be gaining momentum.