My entire habit of online reading has recently been super-enhanced. I have just become hip to web-site feeds and site feed services.
The gist of it is this: Many websites (especially ones that are frequently updated like news sites and weblogs) support some type of RSS or Atom feed. This hyper-link “publishes” the site’s updates to be fed to any service that can “receive” these. There are many such services available, but I’m using Google Reader, which is in its beginning stages and still under improvement. These services will search for and upload all the feeds you “subscribe” to. That way, you don’t have run around the internet like a chicken with your head cut-off, checking all the websites you regularly go to for updates. You don’t even have to visit them at all, you can just log in to your news feed server which will update you when your sites are updated. Google Reader will even load the text of the article for you, so you don’t even have to go the source site to read it! That’s why it’s called a subscription: the site-feed comes right to your online “front-door,” just like a newspaper. Voila. Your life and mine is simplified. Praise the Lord.
Here is a wikipedia article that explains all this, and here is a link to Google reader. Make your life easier now.
Also, because of this wonderful technology, I have added a new item to my blog, where you can access all of my recommended or ‘shared’ online reading. You can either do this by clicking the individual links to my recommendations in “My Shared Reading,” or you can click the bottom link 'Read more...' which will take you to a page where you can read all of my shared articles without having to read them link by link.
Happy reading!
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Friday, January 05, 2007
Sunday, August 28, 2005
For the meticulously perceptive: Yes, this is my fourth post tonight
Dearest readers (especially the diligently perspicacious),
Yes, it is entirely true that as for tonight, this is my fourth post. Why is this? About three or four days ago, I had a list of blog entry ideas, and I wrote all three of them. So, the purpose of this post is manifold.
1. You may find that in a single day, I post more than one entry. I may post more frequently than you would expect, or I may not. It is hard to tell right now, as I am still in Kalamazoo, and I have not begun the college grind.
2. Don't just read the top blog entry. If you haven't noticed, blog entries are posted with the most recent at the top, so don't miss reading some real jewels (yeah, right) below the top one. This point is basically a plea to all visitors, "Please read!"
3. Please post comments. I would really appreciate comments, as they let me know that someone is reading. If you are reading my blog, I probably love you and would love to hear from you too.
4. So if this is the first post you've read, go ahead and scroll down, and start from the bottom if you've got some time! Thanks for reading.
Peace to you,
Scott H.
Yes, it is entirely true that as for tonight, this is my fourth post. Why is this? About three or four days ago, I had a list of blog entry ideas, and I wrote all three of them. So, the purpose of this post is manifold.
1. You may find that in a single day, I post more than one entry. I may post more frequently than you would expect, or I may not. It is hard to tell right now, as I am still in Kalamazoo, and I have not begun the college grind.
2. Don't just read the top blog entry. If you haven't noticed, blog entries are posted with the most recent at the top, so don't miss reading some real jewels (yeah, right) below the top one. This point is basically a plea to all visitors, "Please read!"
3. Please post comments. I would really appreciate comments, as they let me know that someone is reading. If you are reading my blog, I probably love you and would love to hear from you too.
4. So if this is the first post you've read, go ahead and scroll down, and start from the bottom if you've got some time! Thanks for reading.
Peace to you,
Scott H.
Friday, August 19, 2005
I hope you read my blog
To everyone dearest to me,
Thank you for stopping by to read this post. I hope you will return many a time hereafter.
I have always (read: since I started reading them last year) wanted to start a blog. And, if you have yet to be informed, blog is short for 'weblog,' an online journal that, at least in this case, will be more personal than formal or, perish the thought, political (yikes!). For the longest time this blog has actually existed, however I have failed to keep it up, by reason of apathy, and also for not having a good reason to do so.
But last year as I was attending Indiana Wesleyan University and simultaneously attending a different church, it felt strange to be so separated from the spiritual body that for so long had been my home church: Kalamazoo Wesleyan, newly named Lighthouse Community Church: a Wesleyan Ministry. After all, I am receiving a scholarship from them, and they are my home church, in my home district, in which I will be given ministerial student standing. So in an attempt to stay better connected with the folks at home, it seemed appropriate to keep an online journal, especially for those whom I will not be calling on the phone every week.
I will try not to limit myself to specific topics of discussion, and you may find some posts to be more or less formal, occasional, personal or thought provoking. I hope this will make the blog more and not less interesting, and will encourage you to return and not to flee.
I will move to Marion on Monday, August 29. Until then I have 33 more hours of work at McDonald's, and a week to pack and get psyched, man, get psyched for school. That won't be too hard. I am already too excited to express it in words.
Blessings still from Kalamazoo,
Scott H.
Thank you for stopping by to read this post. I hope you will return many a time hereafter.
I have always (read: since I started reading them last year) wanted to start a blog. And, if you have yet to be informed, blog is short for 'weblog,' an online journal that, at least in this case, will be more personal than formal or, perish the thought, political (yikes!). For the longest time this blog has actually existed, however I have failed to keep it up, by reason of apathy, and also for not having a good reason to do so.
But last year as I was attending Indiana Wesleyan University and simultaneously attending a different church, it felt strange to be so separated from the spiritual body that for so long had been my home church: Kalamazoo Wesleyan, newly named Lighthouse Community Church: a Wesleyan Ministry. After all, I am receiving a scholarship from them, and they are my home church, in my home district, in which I will be given ministerial student standing. So in an attempt to stay better connected with the folks at home, it seemed appropriate to keep an online journal, especially for those whom I will not be calling on the phone every week.
I will try not to limit myself to specific topics of discussion, and you may find some posts to be more or less formal, occasional, personal or thought provoking. I hope this will make the blog more and not less interesting, and will encourage you to return and not to flee.
I will move to Marion on Monday, August 29. Until then I have 33 more hours of work at McDonald's, and a week to pack and get psyched, man, get psyched for school. That won't be too hard. I am already too excited to express it in words.
Blessings still from Kalamazoo,
Scott H.
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Blogging
My blog can be what I want it to be. After all, I am an American, and more specifically, a United States Citizen, which definitely brings its privileges (by the way, I just learned how to spell that word today [privilege]; for the longest time I wasn't sure if it was 'i' or 'e' before the 'l'), such as the freedom of speech, whose value I do not often enough appreciate.
Who will read this? Don't those close to me talk to me enough? Why would they find cause to look me up online for the purpose of uncovering more of my boring self? Will I disclose my boring self on this weblog? I do not know. But this I do: that I will enjoy this more if I do not limit myself to a certain style or topic. After all, "everything is permissible."
But not all things are beneficial, so I will refrain from mentioning the unhelpful, which, as far as I can tell, cannot currently be discerned. For if writing just about anything on this website proves to be beneficial at the very least to my writing skills, then has it been (you should read that word with a long 'e' like the Brits, just for fun) helpful to someone--and since this is America--that is, to myself.
Who will read this? Don't those close to me talk to me enough? Why would they find cause to look me up online for the purpose of uncovering more of my boring self? Will I disclose my boring self on this weblog? I do not know. But this I do: that I will enjoy this more if I do not limit myself to a certain style or topic. After all, "everything is permissible."
But not all things are beneficial, so I will refrain from mentioning the unhelpful, which, as far as I can tell, cannot currently be discerned. For if writing just about anything on this website proves to be beneficial at the very least to my writing skills, then has it been (you should read that word with a long 'e' like the Brits, just for fun) helpful to someone--and since this is America--that is, to myself.
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