My TurkeyMonkey
Every once in a while I visit a how-to blog called Learning Movable Type to get pointers on how to spiffy up TurkeyMonkey.com. The woman who runs the site, God bless her, has taught me how to create categories, put a clock in my sidebar, and have a Weather Pixie named Renee Chenault-Fattah deliver the local forecast (if only for a few short months). The latest tip from Elise explains how you can set up My Yahoo to display excerpts from your favorite blogs.
It’s much easier than having to download one of those clunky RSS feed programs, and you’ll never miss out on my steady stream of ramblings, even if you don’t visit this site directly. I know it’s a bit much to ask you to make TurkeyMonkey.com your browser’s home page, but hey, why wouldn’t you want it to be a part of your Yahoo daily digest?
Here’s how the feed looks in my My Yahoo (it’s the center column):
August 5th, 2004 at 4:39 pm
This RSS headlines thing on My Yahoo! is incredibly cool. I can’t stop playing around with it. You can take just about any site that has a XML feed and insert it into your personal layout. This includes just about every blog out there, as well as rags like the New York Times (which doesn’t put its headlines on Yahoo, but does have an RSS feed).
Yahoo! really has stepped it up in the last few months. First the overhaul of Yahoo! Mail and their decision to bump up storage space dramatically (2 gigs for Plus accounts, 100 megs for free accounts). Now they’ve added a way to see your mail on My Yahoo. And I just now saw that they’ve got a photo-developing portal, sort of like Snapfish. Lots of good idea. Kind of makes you wonder why they waited to implement them until after Google started kicking their ass.