From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 25 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > On 2024-04-24, D  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Isn't is nice when you write a script to scrape and parse   
   >>> online text, and whoever owns the site containing it keeps   
   >>> the format the same for fairly long periods of time?   
   >>   
   >> That is indeed a joy! My longest lived source of   
   >> information online are RSS feeds. I parse them with a   
   >> script and generate emails which I send to myself for   
   >> consumption in my favourite email client alpine.   
   >>   
   >> I am also anachronistic in the way that I like the old   
   >> school TV-text pages which still exist in sweden.   
   >>   
   >> They do have an internet interface, so when I'm travelling   
   >> I also have a script that converts them to an email as   
   >> well. ;)   
   >   
   > I used to do stuff like that.   
   >   
   > But I generally avoid "news", and when it comes to blogs   
   > (and their gopher/gemini counterparts), I'm fine with   
   > stumbling upon things in a sort of "how Berners-Lee   
   > intended it" kind of way. I'm to the point of banning   
   > bookmarks from my life, even, mostly because - as odd as   
   > it may sound - there seems to be no greater death-knell   
   > in my life for someone I enjoy reading, or for specific   
   > articles I found particularly good, than to bookmark   
   > them. For me, articles related by links is a better,   
   > more natural/holistic form of bookmarking, and articles   
   > disappearing - completely with that creating bad links   
   > elsewhere - seems far more in accord with "real" life, and   
   > stockpiling bookmarks seems more an artificial aberration   
   > and somehow counter intuitively lowers the chances of my   
   > ever reading things I've saved bookmarks to again.   
      
   I do have quite a nice and curated bookmark list. I use it most often to   
   keep track of books I want to buy, and potential gifts for myself and my   
   family.   
      
   Apart from that, I'd say that I only use about 1% regularly if at all. The   
   rest were bookmarked once, because of the enormously happy feeling in the   
   soul that now it is "forever" within my control. ;)   
      
   What tends to happen 99% of the time is informal bookmarking. That means I   
   use a site, its stored in the history so pops up first, and I use it again   
   and again... until I don't.   
      
   So the bookmarks are a nice illusion.   
      
   As for authors, they do tend to become worse over time. Since you liked   
   them at one point on time, at one stage in their career, it is inevitable.   
   The author wants to develop try new things, and that's when they stop   
   being interesting for me. Almost always. And very few author resign   
   themselves to write the same type of fiction all their lives.   
      
   >> When it comes to baseball, I thought that common sense   
   >> and common truth proclaimed that the white sox are the   
   >> best, right? At least that's what I learned when living   
   >> in chicago and I thought it was a lesson taught to all   
   >> american. ;)   
   >   
   > I've rooted for the White Sox here and there.   
      
   Ahh... so there was some truth in it perhaps!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)