- I have a tab on my public FeedLand page that presents updated posts from NASA's many RSS feeds. Reading it, scanning or skimming it, you get a fine grain sense of what the US space agency is doing these days, what science and engineering are involved, and how beautiful the physical universe is. So that's all good.#
- But I was thinking about a writer I've corresponded with off and on for years in Australia. He's interested in progressive politics there, and has a keen eye and knows the media landscape well. It occurs to me: He could assemble the very strongest RSS feeds addressing progressive politics in his homeland and share them in a single tab on a nice-looking FeedLand web page that updates regularly. This would be a public service that is one feature of FeedLand.#
- In other words, no matter the issue, there should be one tab covering it, with all the best RSS feeds, on one web page, updating away, open to the public for their use.#
- The time has come.#
- I hear that my high school might call tonight and ask for money. I hear that they want my graduating class to endow a scholarship to the tune of $325,000 on the special occasion of having graduated such a large round number of decades ago. Maybe there are 200 of us still living, so maybe they'd be happy to gather up an average of $1600 a phone call, I don't know. I don't often write checks with that many digits after the dollar sign. But I taught at one public university or other for more than forty years, and I like that mission, and I'm disinclined to send money to a private school now. We're all in this together, or we should be.#
- I have a tab on my public FeedLand page that presents updated posts from NASA's many RSS feeds. Reading it, scanning or skimming it, you get a fine grain sense of what the US space agency is doing these days, what science and engineering are involved, and how beautiful the physical universe is. So that's all good.#
- But I was thinking about a writer I've corresponded with off and on for years in Australia. He's interested in progressive politics there, and has a keen eye and knows the media landscape well. It occurs to me: He could assemble the very strongest RSS feeds addressing progressive politics in his homeland and share them in a single tab on a nice-looking FeedLand web page that updates regularly. This would be a public service that is one feature of FeedLand.#
- In other words, no matter the issue, there should be one tab covering it, with all the best RSS feeds, on one web page, updating away, open to the public for their use.#
- The time has come.#
- I hear that my high school might call tonight and ask for money. I hear that they want my graduating class to endow a scholarship to the tune of $325,000 on the special occasion of having graduated such a large round number of decades ago. Maybe there are 200 of us still living, so maybe they'd be happy to gather up an average of $1600 a phone call, I don't know. I don't often write checks with that many digits after the dollar sign. But I taught at one public university or other for more than forty years, and I like that mission, and I'm disinclined to send money to a private school now. We're all in this together, or we should be.#