Recently I read Doc Searls' The Chronological Web , where he argues (as the CentreSource blog entry that led me to his entry puts it) that most organizations need a blog.But what really made me sit up was this bit towards the end:

This helps, for example, when we talk to civilians who are new tothe Web and want to "put up a website". Very often what they reallyneed is a blog. [...] Updating a "site" is achore.

I have a modest suggestion for everyone with a syndication feed(bloggers and otherwise, but especially bloggers): read your ownsyndication feeds. It saves embarrassment.

In theory this is unnecessary, because your blogging or publishingpackage makes syndication feeds just work. In practice I have seen allsorts of things happen, ranging from repeated entries to stray markupand text here and there. Reading your own feeds means that you findout about these sorts of things and can fix them.

(Counting on reader feedback to tell you

As a system administrator, I like to see console messages even whenI'm in X (which is almost all of the time). On my systems, consolemessages come from high priority kernel messages, high priority notesfrom syslog, and sometimes messages from init, and I like to knowabout all of these.

In theory, xterm's -C command line switch should do thisnicely, and indeed it did for years. These days, there aretwo unfortunate problems with it:

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