{"id":1965,"date":"2004-01-18T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2004-01-18T22:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/18\/the-human-mind-is-the-ultimate-aggrega"},"modified":"2004-01-18T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2004-01-18T22:49:08","slug":"the-human-mind-is-the-ultimate-aggregator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/18\/the-human-mind-is-the-ultimate-aggregator\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Mind is the Ultimate Aggregator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2337'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jkbaumga\/2004\/01\/17#a681\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bulwin.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"211\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>The Dowbrigade<br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/18#a680\">loves<br \/>\n        his aggregator<\/a>. It is his constant companion, his window on not<br \/>\n        only the Blogosphere, but on much of what goes on in the world outside<br \/>\n        of his immediate presence.<\/p>\n<p>But we lust for more. Separate bins for our varied moods and tastes<br \/>\n        in news, adjustable content filters to control how much of each post<br \/>\n        comes through, flagged imperishability, one-click subscription to feeds<br \/>\n        linked through the feeds you are already subscribed to, elegant implementation<br \/>\n        of&nbsp; enclosures, etc.<\/p>\n<p>So we asked a list we are on for advice, and were immediately trumped<br \/>\n        by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jkbaumga\/\">Jessica B<\/a>., who is writing the definitive article on RSS and as a<br \/>\n        sidebar is compling a list of aggregators with user blurbs. We should<br \/>\n        have thought of&nbsp; her first &#8211; when in need of information, ask a<br \/>\n        librarian!<\/p>\n<p>If you use a stand-alone or web-based aggregator and have a minute,<br \/>\n        please hop over to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jkbaumga\/2004\/01\/17#a681\">j&#8217;s<br \/>\n        scratchpad<\/a> and post a recommendation.&nbsp; No<br \/>\n        commercial shills, please.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dowbrigade loves his aggregator. It is his constant companion, his window on not only the Blogosphere, but on much of what goes on in the world outside of his immediate presence. But we lust for more. Separate bins for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/18\/the-human-mind-is-the-ultimate-aggregator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}