Technical question which belongs outside of Buffistechnology: How many of you who don't consider yourselves computer geeks know what RSS is and use it at least once a week? If you use a feed in LJ, this may be you.

raises hand

Whenever I see something identifying her as the founder of the internut I mean, the various boards, or as a moderator of them, I think yes, and Tim wrote for Buffy and start laughing. What else to do?

I've got sensation back except for the outside of my cheek and corner of my lips, so I guess I can try eating now. I'm a little surprised how little it all hurts. As in right now? Not at all. And I can't eat popcorn without grievous injury. Of course, tomorrow....but even the shots weren't that bad. I stabbed myself with a syringe this weekend, and that hurt a whole lot worse.

Getting used to the new teeth shape is....odd.

Technical question which belongs outside of Buffistechnology: How many of you who don't consider yourselves computer geeks know what RSS is and use it at least once a week? If you use a feed in LJ, this may be you.

I use bloglines, if that is what you mean. I picked it up through a detailed tutorial on Lifehacker yonks ago-- not that it's hard, but I also don't use ebay because I don't know how. I think everyone who reads more than a few blogs daily should learn how to use an RSS reader, it makes a huge difference in productive timewasting.

productive timewasting

I love this phrase.

First knew of the internet in '85 or '86, but didn't really dive in until '89 or '90. Which was still pre-Endless September, let alone web, so I'm'a desperately cling to my Older Than Dirt pretense*. It lets me LAUGH and laugh and laughandlaughandlaugh at people who make big world-weary pronouncements about how the internets used to be.

* even though, srsly? noob.

I have absolutely no clue what RSS is, other than seeing it mentioned on various blogs and even here at work. But, I'm always afraid to admit to my ignorance because everyone else is so up on it and I'll look like an idiot of a Luddite (which I apparently am, since I don't have an MP3 player, digital camera, or a cell phone that does anything other than make phone calls for which I have to refer to my instruction book every time I need to retrieve a message).

Technical question which belongs outside of Buffistechnology: How many of you who don't consider yourselves computer geeks know what RSS is and use it at least once a week? If you use a feed in LJ, this may be you.

Did you mean use an RSS to get information fed to me, or being the person on the other end of the RSS feed?

If you meant the latter, I take back my hand raise.

How many of you who don't consider yourselves computer geeks know what RSS is and use it at least once a week?

Me.

Wait, I do consider myself a computer geek. Never mind....

Also, bon bon is totally right about the productive timewasting.

I am so not geeky (for example, I was not online much until the late 1990s, and didn't have the internet at home until 2001) and I use RSS feeds like whoa. But I only started to a few months ago. But now I subscribe to a blog about RSS feeds (in libraries, for work) via an RSS feed!

I was briefly a mostly-lurker in a community that was very Buffistas-esque. It was a list-serv on yahoogroups, about the Lord Peter Wimsey novels, and they ended up developing a 'natter' list-serv called Piffle, and a beloved member from Holland did a US tour, and anybody going to the UK would make arrangements to meet up in Oxford pubs. And they all loved Georgette Heyer and Bujold and used punctuation, although the average age was rather older and the tenor even more librarianesque than here. But I hated the list-serv format, so I left. (It still exists, though. They've been around a long time and have had older members, and so they've had members actually die (as opposed to pseudiciding.) They retire the noms de list of the deceased.)