Electrolite: Problems of modernity:

January 28, 2003

Problems of modernity: Danny O’Brien notes one problem with RSS readers.

I’m forever getting half-way through what I think is one of Doc Searls’ posts, then abruptly realising that I’m actually reading Samuel Pepys’ Diary.

I hate it when that happens. [11:02 AM]

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Tim Kyger ::: (view all by) ::: January 28, 2003, 01:15 PM:

At the risk of being a pedant ("too late!"), I'd like to note that Samueal Pepys' diary *is* online (Cool! says I).

Patrick Nielsen Hayden ::: (view all by) ::: January 28, 2003, 01:21 PM:

Yes, here, as noted on Electrolite here.

Moreover, it offers two different RSS feeds, to one of which I'm sure Danny O'Brien subscribes. Did you think he was joking?

Tim Kyger ::: (view all by) ::: January 28, 2003, 02:12 PM:

I *knew* I should have waited to comment before the coffee kicked in...

Debra Doyle ::: (view all by) ::: January 28, 2003, 03:46 PM:

I find the on-line Pepys diary strangely consoling. On just about any given day, I can go to his weblog and discover that he, too, has been fretting about money (never quite enough), the weather (usually bad), and the current political situation (unsettled and disturbing.) Some people might be depressed by this lack of evident progress in the betterment of the human condition since 1660, but I draw a certain comfort from the you-are-not-aloneness of it all.

David Bell ::: (view all by) ::: January 29, 2003, 02:02 PM:

With quite a few annotations referring to "Sam", and a little too much recent memories of another set of "very secret diaries", I'm getting confused...