Lex Ferenda

RSS feeds are very useful (although not supported in Camino, my current browser - more’s the pity, cause cousins Firefox and Safari have it sorted already!).  Virtually all blogs have a feed (and Lex Ferenda is no exception), and an increasing amount of news sites have added a feed or feeds.  If you’re new to the concept, take a look at the BBC’s introduction.

I’m not being obnoxious in using the abbreviation - it’s that there is some debate over what it actually stands for.  Seriously.

Anyway.  Not all sites have seen the RSS light (yet).  That’s where Ponyfish comes in.  You can create a feed for any site - although it works best on pages that are updated in a reasonably consistent way.  You don’t need to set up an account to play with, although if you’re going to make more serious use of it, it’s a good idea (there are free and premium options).  And yes, I’m sure that it’s easy enough to program your own version of it, but that’s waaaaay beyond my techie abilities.

Thanks to Lo-Fi Librarian for highlighting this app.