NOT that happy with having to fetch my jokes?

It’s such an effort, isn’t it? Well, it was getting to be a real pain for me to manage my distribution lists for my “Friday Smiles”. Some people didn't want this type or that type and you see, being the anal person that I am, I didn’t want to send back a joke to someone who had sent it to me. It was getting complicated and I didn’t want that at all! So having this blog is simpler (for me, at least).

I know that most of you are “real” lazy, and enjoyed the breaks my jokes would bring in your mailbox full of important things and business related matters. I was your ray of sunshine in your dreary inbox! I fully understand that. I was talking with my geek of a husband, and he told me that he could create an aggregator link to my blog. A what?! What was he talking about this time? Most of the time (not to say ALL) when he talks geek I zone out… It’s boring, what can I say!?!

Over the 13 years I’ve been exposed to him, I guess some of his geekiness rubbed off on me… Like I keep telling him, he’s made of real cheap “cloth”, his dye “runs” and now I know about things that “normally” I would not have! All because of him! I tell you…

Earlier while chatting with a friend, who’s quite geeky too (or at least connected!) I asked him if he’d been on my blog. He’s one of those, that the extra effort didn’t appeal to. So I told him to use a news aggregator. He had no clue what it was. That made me realize two things: 1) not everybody is up to speed with the technology available and 2) my husband is much more of a geek than I thought!!!

As per my hubby's suggestion, I googled “aggregator”, and the first link you get is the wikipedia definition :

An aggregator or news aggregator is a type of software that retrieves syndicated Web content that is supplied in the form of a web feed (RSS, Atom and other XML formats), and that are published by weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites.

(that would be Augie’s definition as well, see why I zone out!)

Here’s my version/definition: a news aggregator is something that fetches new entries on blogs or news site.

So, if there are sites (besides my blog) that you do visit regularly, using an aggregator would be useful. You could see in one place all new “entries” that were made to your favorite blogs, online news, newsgroup, weather forecast, etc. What do you think? Interested? If so, contact my contributor “CycleTux” he’ll be able to help you! I'm sure he'll be thrilled to tell you more about this “fascinating” subject that is a news aggregator.