Don Xml's Grok This

	Friends Don't Let Friends Browse the Internet Campaign I was thinking about the series of blog campaigns over the weekend to help secure our friends and family's PCs by installing the latest patches, anti-virus and anti-spyware programs, and decided that we shouldn't stop there.  So I am creating the Friends Don't Let Friends Browse the Internet Campaign The idea is to turn your friends and family onto the various RSS Readers.  Pick your favorite ( RssBandit, SharpReader, or one of the commercial products) and install it on their machines along with all the security stuff.  Then add your blog (plus some of various cool RSS feeds), and show them the light of Reading the Internet, rather than Browsing the Internet. Here's a few of my favorite none blog RSS feeds: News Askew http://www.newsaskew.com/rss/news.xml - For all the latest info in the Kevin Smith world (creator of the movie Clerks) Scientific America Magazine -  http://xml.newsisfree.com/feeds/39/1439.xml Billboard Magazine - http://xml.newsisfree.com//feeds/05/3205.xml To show your support, please add the following banner to your website: And stop browsing and start reading! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Published Tuesday, July 06, 2004 6:40 PM by donxml Filed under: Blogging Comment Notification If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here Subscribe to this post's comments using RSS Comments TrackBack said: July 7, 2004 3:00 PM Josh Baltzell said: I am reading this in a broswer within FeedDemon, do I count as a bad guy? I followed a link instead of waiting until I got to your feed. I don't know what to do with myself anymore when I sit down at a machine that's not mine. I open IE and I just stare at google until I just go check my email or play at bloglines. July 9, 2004 12:06 PM TrackBack said: July 17, 2004 7:01 PM

About donxml

I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.