What if this morning your digital newpaper didn't arrive?
Imagine waking up and finding out
that you have zero
newsfeeds pending to
read. What happened...did everyone decide to boycott
the Internet? Could there actually be no updates to
the 34 feeds that I normally follow? The silence is
eery...almost like something out of a horror movie or
a Twlight Zone episode.
Unfortunately, the moment of insanity passes
and Occom's Razor takes over. The simplest
solution is the best...there must be something
wrong with the mechanism that is updating my
NetNewsWire feeds. So I start at the beginning and
assume sleep is to blame and stop and restart the
application. No effect. After hitting the Refresh
All button five or six times hoping that it would
automatically start up again, I decide that I need
to fix it.
Dismayed and annoyed, I vented my frustration by
sending a status update to all my social networking
sites using MoodBlast. Suddenly it dawns on
me...maybe it isn't only me. Rather than searching
the forums to find a solution, I decide to see if
anyone else is complaining on Twitter. No one in my feeds are having
the same problem?!?! However, I do get my news fix
on how Team Slipstream is doing in the Giro.
However, when I go to Summize, I hit the Jackpot! Not only is
there a description of the problem, but someone
has already provided a solution...NewsGator is the
problem and remove the synchronization from your
preferences within NetNewsWire. Suddenly, the RSS
feeds load and I have 104 new feeds to read.
Maybe, I shouldn't be so happy.
This was a very illuminating experience on our
dependence on and the power of new Web V2.0
communication methods...i.e. RSS Feeds and
Twittering. In record time, I was back up and
running...the free and quick dissemination of
information will dominate the future of the
Internet.