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Kevin Heifner, June 25, 2003: ... By the way. I have come to the conclusion that I don't want to keep a web-blog.
Kevin Heifner, November 4, 2004: Well, I finally decided to start a blog. Please stay tuned for actual content in the future.
It took 498 days, but it should be worth the wait.
I Heard It On The Radio
I heard these in the technology section of Wall Street Journal This Morning (airs 5:00-6:00am on 97.1FM, streaming live if you use IE, in St. Louis):
- Google started beta testing its scholarly search engine at scholar.google.com.
- My Yahoo! now has RSS support.
So I decided to check out the RSS support on My Yahoo!. I haven't visited there for five years.
Surprise number one: I logged in! It turns out that the login is the same as Yahoo Mail.
Surprise number two: Everything was the way I left it the last time I was there---the stock tickers, the sports news, the horoscopes, the local weather, everything!
There RSS support is not all that obvious though. I have to look around a bit to find out how things work. It's on their "Add Contents" page. Once there, everything is easy.
It turns out that I have to add my feed to their database so that other My Yahoo! users can find it. I can also put a link on my page for them to subscribe directly. Usually I'm not a fan of little link buttons, but I'll make an exception for them, just for remembering my customizations after all these years. (It's also RESTful, I think.)
