I wonder what old Thomas would have thought of internet pop-ups?  I’m thinking about news and newspapers because I’m playing with a different way of reading the blogs I like to keep up with. 

While syndication feeds are old news to most bloggers, many folks out in the overworked business world aren’t aware that many blog tools do more than just create web pages.  Many of them also publish an XML feed of that same content, which other tools can then monitor for new content that gets posted.  For a look at my feed, scroll down and click the orange XML button in the footer of this page.

The tool I’m playing with at the moment is NewsGator, which pulls these feeds into Microsoft Outlook.  So far I’m pretty enamored with it - since on a daily basis I’m already reading a bunch of personal email and email newsletters I’m subscribed to.  Bringing blog content into Outlook means all my incoming news is in one source.  Cool!