I feel that I should preface this post by warning you all that this isn't an informative or politically oriented piece. In fact, ashamedly, it may even qualify as nothing more than a personal rant, but I feel that so many of my counterparts on the Blogosphere as well as Communications Theorists and possibly even Sociologists may back me up on what I'm about to say.
When will the news sites learn to begin synidcating their feeds?
No, I'm not talking about CNN, MSNBC, or FOX News. As any of you who have read my posts before will know, I believe in having as many players in as many markets as possible. The news - or even info - market is no different. I'm talking about the local newspapers, magazines of cities and the journalistic endeavours of smaller communities.
In order to become a better blogger, and a more informed citizen, I've begun to force myself into the habit of using news aggregators. [I've found Active Refresh to be the best one]. But aside from the obvious information overload that pooling and aggregating all the world's info can do, I've almost found it useless and most definitely futile in attempting to aggregate info on anything other than the major headlines dispatched thru the MSM [which I think any news junkie, aka the people using news aggregators right now, would have already seen] and the muddied pools of posts from bloggers like me. [Yes, let's face it. For a good amount of time, we are pretty damned annoying - even to ourselves!] As a New Yorker, or more aptly a Manhattanite, I was certain that my city - often called by many both here and abroad as the capital of the world - with its multiplicity in periodicals would have a majority of them offering an RSS or ATOM syndication to which I could subscribe. Sadly, I found this to not be the case.
Neither the New Yorker nor New York Magazine nor the New York Post nor TimeOut New York have any syndications to offer to the info junkie like me. And what about outside the city, you say? You mean Albany or Buffalo, Syracuse or even Poughkipsie? Fuhgettaboutit!!
I thought syndicationa and news aggregators were supposed to be the future of gathering info on the web. NOBODY has the time to visit and muddle thru all the sites [and the ads] on the web inorder to get a complete scope of what's going on in the world and who's saying what. Was it all just technophilic hype, or am I and others simply ahead of the curve?
The idea behind aggregators - being able to sample your pool in the web, pull it all back home, and at a glance and for a few seconds know it all - I've always found to be not only appealing but also inspiring. Allowing for the current mulitiplicity of information to continue in a more productive, efficient, and even economic way.
How can the seeds of future knowledge be planted without streams of syndication.
Where will all these flowers grow?
Long time passing, when will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
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As always, I'm not claiming to know it all about the topics in this post. If anyone has any insight into any of the matters covered here, I'd greatly appreciate your comments. I'm looking to learn and grow, not bitch and moan.
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