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How to use "RSS Instant Content Harvesting"
to manage information overload

How can you harvest information from the boundless fields of the Internet, with maximum of efficiency and a minimum investment of your time? ... RSS -- Real Simple Syndication -- provides a near-perfect solution. What's so great about RSS? According to an article in the BBC News (February 20, 2004) "The most compelling use of RSS is that it lets users read dozens of websites, all on the same page. The sites can be scanned in seconds rather than having to be laboriously loaded individually." ... In three words: RSS saves time.
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On Reading
by Michael Pastore

Synchronicities -- meaningful coincidences -- always strike you at the most surprising times. A few weeks ago, sitting in my living room, I was thinking about the fate of America's 117,000 public libraries, endangered species that might one day become extinct. There are some people who are not troubled by this notion, and claim that the public buildings might easily be replaced a massive online library with search engines that could access every book. At this grim thought I noticed my bookshelves trembling and swaying with an ominous intent.
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Here's an article that explains how to use the Web Developer Extension.

The Web Developer Extension for Mozilla-based Browsers

Thanks to extraordinary user feedback from friends and colleagues, we have re-designed the Youthtopia Site.

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Jakob Nielsen presents a grimly amusing article about the catastrophic effects of poor usability in many fields, especially medicine.

Medical Usability: How to Kill Patients Through Bad Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Here is an excellent site about web development and accessibility:

Juicy Studio; keeping developers informed

A nice page of resources about Usability and Accessibility from the Crispen Family.

Web Building: Usability and Accessibility

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The human brain was not designed to clog itself with oceans of factoids such as XHTML attributes, which CSS tags are inherited, and the entity number for the em dash (it's 8212). Here was my problem: seven days ago I noticed huge gaps in the "Web Design" sections on my bookshelves. I have been lending web books to everybody: my wife for her new job; an 84-year-old friend named Harry (who is publishing his novel online); and the 14-year-old kid next door who wants to be a millionaire before he reaches the ripe age of 15. Bereft of books, tired of Googling, and feeling guilty about pestering the local library's reference staff — I needed to grab essential tidbits of information quickly, so as not to slow down my work. My old reference books were out on loan but fortunately (for my overworked cerebral cortex) my new books stayed at home. For the past week I have been opening and closing the four supplementary chapters of Web Designer's Reference more than I opened and closed my refrigerator door. It took me a whole week to realize that this book offers much more than a handy reference: this weekend I read the book from page first to last. And I was thrilled to discover that Grannell's book is among the clearest, completest, and most insightful book about web design that I've studied in the past six years.
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