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twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2009.01.25

Over the past few years, many people have asked me to put an RSS feed on this website. The basic idea is that readers can "subscribe" to updates to the site and have those updates actively pushed to them rather than requiring the reader to come back.

Never been my cup of tea, as it were, but I've done it now in large part because I'm building a new business that is Internet-based, and I figure that having content to push out to people is the best way of making that happen. Further to that, I've learned how to automate the generation of the feed so that whenever I publish new material (even something as simple as this journal entry) it'll get picked up in a matter of hours.

Now to get the content "syndicated". I've started with feedburner.com, a Google property, thanks to a lead from Lee of LoneleePlanet. Any other suggestions would be welcome.

rand()m quote

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery