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Getting Into RSS

Just realized that this page can be syndicated… cool!

Do you all use feeds?

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17 Responses to “Getting Into RSS”

  1. Eric says:

    RSS is nice, and would be appreciated.
    For those of you who use Firefox– or are looking for a reason to switch– the browser has an integrated RSS reader (which they call “live bookmarks”). They’ll save you precious seconds, perhaps even minutes, in your rigorous webbrowsing schedule.

  2. Kevin says:

    Of course I use the feed! NetNewsWire + RSS = Blog-reading Nirvana.

  3. Chris Conway says:

    I have been using your RSS feed from the start. Typepad gives you a feed for “free”. NetNewsWire makes following several dozen blogs effortless. I recommend it to anyone who compulsively reloads websites to see if they’ve been updated (and to any web authors whose work is compulsively reloadable).

  4. Kelly says:

    Yup, I’ve been using your RSS feed from the start too. Firefox displays that little orange Live Bookmark icon in the status bar so that’s how I knew it was available.

  5. L&DB says:

    You people are such dorks. I kid. I kid. But
    seriously…

  6. omit says:

    That’s how I read the site. Bloglines.com.

  7. Joe Leydon says:

    OK, now I know you guys are speaking English, because I recognize a few of the words. But…

  8. L&Db says:

    Exactly Joe. I have no idea what they are talking
    about. These kids and their rock music! OY!

  9. bicycle bob says:

    firefox is much better than the explorer. more options

  10. Phillip Winn says:

    I’ve been reading your stuff forever, and I’m delighted that this particular site, at least, has a feed. Now I only have to manually visit THB. It’s one of only two non-RSS sites I visit every day.
    Folks, if you want to try RSS with Yahoo, use http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http%3A//davidpoland.typepad.com/thehotblog/index.rdf
    If you want to try Bloglines (and you should), use http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://davidpoland.typepad.com/thehotblog/index.rdf

  11. Terence D says:

    I do not know what RSS means. I am technologically not inclined. I’m just happy to log on.

  12. David says:

    “That’s how I read the site. Bloglines.com.”
    Ditto that.

  13. john says:

    Real Simple Syndication if any of you are wondering. you can use thunderbird and read sites that have it like email.

  14. Terence D says:

    I will have to check this out. Is it better? Make reading and following easier?

  15. bicycle bob says:

    well why didn’t u check it out then instead of posting about it. gosh

  16. Peggy Archer says:

    I’m trying to figure out how to work the RSS feed, but I do make an attempt to use it..

  17. C says:

    I do. I read this blog with Bloglines (along with 22 other people, apparently). šŸ™‚
    I don’t think I could live without Bloglines now. It’s become a web essential for me.
    Here’s a piece I wrote introducing newbies to RSS and Bloglines.
    http://apictureofme2.blogspot.com/2004/10/how-to-read-blogs-via-rssxml.html

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” ā€” some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it ā€” I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury ā€” he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” ā€” and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging ā€” I was with her at that moment ā€” she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy namedā€”” “Yeah, sure ā€” you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
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~ David Simon