Keeping up with my news…
If you want an easy way to check if there is anything new on this site, and assuming you’re using Firefox or any other browser that has this feature (Internet Explorer doesn’t yet) then you can add a “live bookmark” to this site as easily as a normal bookmark that will show you if there are any new posts, and take you to them if you want to read that new post.
A good explaination of how to do this and what they are all about is here. Just note that if you have a different theme installed for Firefox, then the little orange icon may actually look like something else, but it will still be in the same place in the address bar.
This feature is really handy for all sorts of sites, especially news and blog type sites. The icon will appear for any site that lets the browser know that it has such a live bookmark feed.
[…] For the last few weeks I’ve been trialling internet life using a “feed aggregator”. What’s that? It’s where a little utility runs away to all the web sites I look at regularly and grabs the headlines from them and alerts me to the fact there’s new stuff there and what it is. It’s related to the Firefox live bookmarks I blogged about way back in 2006 (?!). […]