Blogs II

Since I use a modern web browser which supports RSS feeds, I am able to keep track of many news sites and blogs. Not only can I quickly scan what I want, I can open the selected article in a new tab without having multiple instances (windows) of my web browser running. I've decided to list them here. As I've said before, tabbed browsing and an integrated RSS reader are great features that are already incorporated into Mozilla-Firefox. Microsoft's Internet Exploiter 7 will have these features by late 2006.

General News: Yahoo! News, Reuters News
Tech News: Techweb, Linux Today
Conservative News: Free Republic

Blogs (URL)
http://www.blogmaverick.com
http://iraqnow.blogspot.com
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/
http://blogs.chronwatch.com
http://www.moonbatcentral.com/wordpress/

While this may not seem like much, it's enough to keep me updated. If you're using an old POS browser that has no features (IE) you'll need to download an aggregator (reader) to take full advantage of RSS. If you're using Firefox or Opera (or even Thunderbird) you can simply subscribe this these, or any, sites that publish RSS feeds. Chances are your favorite news sites and blogs are already published ready with RSS.

I dread the day that Windows Vista (with Internet Exploiter 7) is released. Somehow, I feel that RSS will be exploited to contain spam or malware or something. If you ever want to ruin a useful feature, let Microsoft put out (I don't want to say 'develop' because they don't develop anything. Two of their flagship products [PowerPoint and Internet Exploiter] they bought) their own product that uses it. Thanks to Internet Exploiter, they almost ruined web browsing. Once MS gets involved with RSS, it could change for the worse.