An astronomers delight.
The hot trend at the moment appears to be Planet. I have been reading Planet Classpath for quite a long time, and now we have Planet KDE, too. Nice initiative, but the consequences are a bit daunting, at least for me and my poor webserver.
You see, if you're reading this posting from Fading Memories itself, you will have had to click on the "Read more..." link to see this paragraph. In order to conserve bandwidth, reader patience and now and then the pointe or clue of an entry, I tend to break my postings in an intro and the story proper.
Planet software publishes the complete story. I don't have a problem with that, if I had I should ask Chris Lee to de-list Fading Memories. But I worry a bit about readers, about my ADSL connection which has to serve up my screen shots -- but most of all whether these constraints will mean that I will find myself writing different things in a different way.
For instance, I hesitated whether I should write this little entry because it could sound like whining, combined with the mail I sent Chris and the bit of discussion over on KDE Developer Journals... Which of course meant I had no recourse but doing so, because otherwise I would have just done what I fear I would do. And things suddenly start getting convoluted.
Planet software, by the way, is interesting because it is, just like Akgregator, one step back towards the good old times of Usenet. There is, in fact, an nntp RSS feed reader that makes your preferred feeds available as good old news to your news reader of choice -- KNode, of course. Nothing ever changes in the English countryside.
Still, Usenet, because of its extreme ephemerality (despite Google groups), doesn't produce as much anguish...