Lack of Webfeed Hall of Shame
From Contentious this morning…I don't have any sites to add,
yet. I think the Canadian government already has webfeeds (chalk
one up for Canada!). These are the two of the three Amy lists
that I think are the biggest on the Hall of Shame. Google, like
Amy says, owns Blogger! And Darwin is a great magazine. I
read their articles…but only when they are referenced in someone else's webfeed. I just don't get around to going to the site and checking. And I get enough e-mail now, thank you.
yet. I think the Canadian government already has webfeeds (chalk
one up for Canada!). These are the two of the three Amy lists
that I think are the biggest on the Hall of Shame. Google, like
Amy says, owns Blogger! And Darwin is a great magazine. I
read their articles…but only when they are referenced in someone else's webfeed. I just don't get around to going to the site and checking. And I get enough e-mail now, thank you.
Google News Alerts. Currently, Google offers a news alert service that provides a daily e-mail listing new stories appearing in Google News
which correspond to terms (keywords) you search for. I love this
service and use it a lot – but why, oh why, doesn't Google do this
via webfeed? A webfeed would tell me about new relevant stories AS SOON
AS THEY APPEAR, I wouldn't have to wait for a daily compilation e-mail.
Google – please, please tell me
you're working on this. I know that someone over there has heard of
this webfeed stuff, because there's a Atom feed for Google's own blog. And these people bought Blogger, for Pete's sake! Hello? Is anyone home over there?Darwin Magazine.
This is the Web site of the magazine that bills itself as “information
technology for executives.” And they don't manage to offer a single
webfeed? I know they know what RSS is – they've covered it. It's sad when a technology magazine visibly lags behind the times in its own publishing strategy.
