Thanks to Ernie the Attorney, I mastered news aggregators today. What fascinates me about learning is that it seems that not understanding something is usually the result of "missing a piece." So it was with aggregators. I had mastered all the complicated stuff like coding everything right and validating and submitting the feed but I had missed a really basic concept like "what's an aggregator". Ernie pointed me to one and once I saw one, it all fell in place. Yet no matter how many times something like that happens, the next time I can't figure something out, I'll still be looking at the minutiae not realizing I made some basic mistaken assumption at the beginning.
Other than that, news aggregators are cool and Ernie was very helpful to someone he barely knows.
Posted by Justene Adamec at January 10, 2003 06:51 PM