I downloaded NetNewsWire last night to check it out. It’s an RSS browser for OS X. It’s pretty good. I’ve had trouble with being too addicted to the news before though and I don’t see this helping that at all! There’s just much better things to do than spend ages trying to keep up with the ever shifting world of facts. I don’t advocate being out of touch, I just think balance is important. Recently my news needs are kind of handled for me. Louise works as a journalist and either mentions or posts anything interesting to Hype. The same with other people. Like taking drugs through a dog, I use other people as bullshit filters.

Still, it got me looking at RSS. Its traditional RDF variation is a fairly dense grammar. Easy to do but heavy. Then I looked at Zeldman’s file, which is dead simple (view source to see the XML). It works just as well with NNW. It lacks time values, but then so do most of the RDF feeds.

So, the upshot is, I spent half an hour hacking and now my site has an RSS feed. Woo! Click it to your left.