Getting Started with RSS: The No-Brainer Method

"By popular demand, this is a short introduction to RSS, employing Bloglines, a free, Web-based RSS aggregator (reader). This is how I got started with RSS--hence, it's a guaranteed no-brainer!...

Still, RSS is a bit baffling at first. Once you step in, though, you'll have an immediate 'ah hah.' These directions were written to get you from baffled to 'ah hah' in less than fifteen minutes." [Free Range Librarian]

I'm slowly working my way through two weeks of electronic and paper piles (I'm especially behind on email), but I'm still enjoying my Treo! I haven't had much time to customize it further, but suffice it to say that I'm in love. And apparently I'm not the only one who's happy with a camera in a phone.

Camera Phones Rival DVD Players as Fastest Growing Devices Fly Off Shelves While Prices Plummet

"Teeny camera cellphones appear to be on pace to replace DVDs as the fastest-growing consumer technology device ever.

Introduced three years ago in Japan and less than a year ago in the USA, they've caught on so fast that Nokia and other phonemakers say most new phones from now on will have built-in cameras.

'They're becoming a standard feature,' says Nokia spokesman Keith Nowak at the Comdex technology show here. Nokia, the No. 1 cellphone maker, introduced six models in the past two months. All include cameras....

To date, 80 million camera phones have sold worldwide vs. 6 million in the USA, research firm IDC says. This year, analyst Ron Glaz of IDC says more camera phones will be sold worldwide, 57 million, than digital cameras, 44 million.

By comparison, DVD players, introduced in 1997 and called the fastest-growing consumer tech device by the Consumer Electronics Association, sold 30 million players in its first three years, says researcher In-Stat/MDR." [USA Today, via Reiter's Camera Phone Report]