Yesterday I thought I'd learned how to use a very ingenious little tool - RSS. You know the RSS icon that appears all over Gather? I decided it would be a good thing to go through my Gather friends and RSS the ones that are "must read" for me, and have all their latest musings on my iGoogle page. I wasn't going to stop coming to gather, but I thought this way I'd not miss any missives by my favorite writers. Good theory. Weird result.
I went to my Gather tab on my homepage, iGoogle, this morning and there were all the people's little boxes, each with three articles in each box. Yippee, thinks I, there are the newest from the likes of Jackie L., Charles the God, etc. etc. etc. Then I started to click. A few of the articles RSS had sent to my page were new, written yesterday, September 1. But the majority of the articles are from anywhere in Gather history. There are articles Ina wrote in January. There are articles Nippy authored in May. Some very bad language filled the room, and it's Sunday, so they are double-bad.
Does anyone out there have RSS and is it screwed up for you too? Does anyone know how to make it work correctly? And yes, I went to the "Unhelp Page". It stated that about once an hour the website which you RSS'd will update with the "latest" published material. November 2006 isn't my idea of Dame Ruth's latest. She's not on Ina's porch yet. If anyone knows anything that can help, please let me know.
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Comments: 32
Gather is designed for standalone addictive use. It's fun for that but it is inconvenient if one wants to just be part of the larger internet.
And it's probably not good for my blood pressure to scream more at my computer than I do now.
if I wanted crap dropping down and obscuring my reading, I'll put a cat in front of the monitor.
Or this one by Marilyn C.:
And it's probably not good for my blood pressure to scream more at my computer than I do now.
Both fit my life to a "T" these days! :D
I also noticed that I suddenly can't find the RSS icon on my profile or my articles on Gather, which leads me to believe they may be attempting to fix the problem.