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<title>Learning to Read</title>
<volumenum>6</volumenum>
<issuenum>18</issuenum>
<pubdate>2003-05-19</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2006-08-22 11:26:24 -0400 (Tue, 22 Aug 2006) $</date>
<author><personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname><surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname></author>
<copyright><year>2003</year><holder>Norman Walsh</holder></copyright>
<abstract>
<para>If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the trick is figuring
out who to flatter, right?</para>
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<epigraph>
<attribution>Samuel Butler</attribution>
<para xml:id='p1'><indexterm><primary>Butler</primary><secondary>Samuel</secondary>
</indexterm>Birds are taken with pipes that imitate their
own voices, and men with those sayings that are most agreeable to their
own opinions.</para>
</epigraph>

<section xml:id="update31aug2004">
<title>Update: 31 Aug 2004</title>

<para xml:id='p2'>I put the old, stale list back because it’s historically honest and
because I’ve <link xlink:href="/2004/09/01/blogroll">replaced this page</link>
with something more useful.</para>
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<section xml:id="update23mar2004">
<title>Update: 23 Mar 2004</title>

<para xml:id='p3'>The list on this page had grown horribly stale. Some time ago, I switched to
<link xlink:href="http://www.bloglines.com/">Bloglines</link> as my aggregator.
The easiest way to share what I read is to make
<link xlink:href="http://www.bloglines.com/public/ndw">my blogs</link> public.
It’s not all that well organized, but at least it’s up to date.</para>
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<title>The Original Essay</title>

<para xml:id='p4'>Since I became interested in writing in this medium, I've become
more interested in reading it. This page is a list of the feeds I
read. Or try to. My reader of choice isn't working too well these days
and I've spent my last few days of free time hacking this site
together instead of fixing it.</para>

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<title>News and Information</title>
<varlistentry><term>http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf</term>
<listitem><para xml:id='p5'><indexterm><primary>Slashdot</primary></indexterm>I
don't know if it really matters or not, but it's sometimes
interesting.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>http://www.xmlhack.com/rss10.php</term>
<listitem><para xml:id='p6'><indexterm><primary>XML Hack</primary></indexterm>Keeping tabs on the XML community.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>http://use.perl.org/perl-news-short.rdf</term>
<listitem><para xml:id='p7'><indexterm><primary>Perl</primary></indexterm>The perl thing.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>http://www.wired.com/news_drop/netcenter/netcenter.rdf</term>
<listitem><para xml:id='p8'>The wired thing.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>http://www.theregister.co.uk/tonys/slashdot.rdf</term>
<listitem><para xml:id='p9'>Dishing the IT scene.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/world/rss091.xml</term>
<listitem><para xml:id='p10'><indexterm><primary>News</primary></indexterm>World news.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm-releases.rdf</term>
<listitem><para xml:id='p11'><indexterm><primary>Freshmeat</primary></indexterm>New stuff.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>http://www.debianplanet.org/module.php?mod=node&amp;op=feed</term>
<listitem><para xml:id='p12'><indexterm><primary>Debian</primary></indexterm>New Debian stuff.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>http://lwn.net/headlines/rss</term>
<listitem><para xml:id='p13'><indexterm><primary>Linux</primary></indexterm>New Linux Stuff.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>http://x42.com/rss/rfc.rss</term>
<listitem><para xml:id='p14'><indexterm><primary>IETF</primary><secondary>RFC</secondary></indexterm>New RFCs.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>http://www.quotationspage.com/data/qotd.rss</term>
<listitem><para xml:id='p15'><indexterm><primary>Quotations</primary></indexterm>Feeding my quotes collection.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
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<title>Opinion</title>
<varlistentry><term>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/</term>
<listitem>
<para xml:id='p16'>What <personname><firstname>Tim</firstname><surname>Bray</surname></personname>
says.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>http://markbernstein.org/</term>
<listitem>
<para xml:id='p17'>What
 <personname><firstname>Mark</firstname><surname>Bernstein</surname></personname> says.
</para></listitem>
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