The title is an inside joke, should Michelle P happen to be reading this.
The fact is that I’m furling, and I like it. It’s a simple, effective way for me (or anyone else) to track my surfing history, and the links are available on the web, received via (a customizable!) e-mail subscription, or even as an RSS feed.
Speaking of RSS, I keep meaning to post an “intro to RSS”, but haven’t had time to write an entry that would do the topic justice. If you’re using Windows, and you don’t know about RSS, you can start by grabbing a (free!) copy of Awasu, which is currently my preferred RSS client for Windows. So preferred that I shelled out actual money for the paid/advanced version. It’s sweet. But there are lots of good RSS clients out there, for every platform, many of them free (or, like Awasu, with a free version available). As usual, Google is your friend.
Go look, and play. Once you have an RSS News Reader, use it to subscribe to feeds. You can get a danrochman.com feed, for example. Once subscribed, your news reader will grab new posts (if any) on a regular schedule, and let you know when new content is available to be read. This saves you from having to manually check irregularly-updated sites (like this one) just to see if anything new has been posted – the RSS news reader will watch the site for you. MANY news and blog sites (among others) have RSS feeds now, with more coming along all the time, and a good reader collects and remembers all of your favorite feeds, checks them regularly, lets you see at a glance which of them have updated content, and lets you browse that content (or at least a summary of it) right in the reader, or click links to go directly to the source(s). There are also a few search engines on the web specializing in RSS feeds. Syndic8 helps you find feeds to subscribe to, and Feedster helps you search for content within them (and within blogs in general).
Judy’s Blog doesn’t have it’s own RSS feed, that I know of, but I was able to make a RandomScribble RSS feed using myRSS.com. How cool is that?