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Nov 7

Getting your crack delivered at home: A weeaboo's guide to RSS

Anime fans are a pretty addiction-prone bunch. One torrent leads to another, one figure leads to another, and most infamously of all, one Ninja Scroll DVD leads to an entire house overrun with plastic discs in fancy box sets (formerly plastic cassettes in fancy box sets), until eventually you find yourself thinking hey, that Strike Witches shit is pretty good!

That insatiable appetite follows us onto the web, where we read, write, and comment near-religiously on forums and blog posts. And I’m surprised to hear about addicts who don’t know about RSS, that most magical of technologies that helps me keep a mainline of anime-internets hooked up at all times.

Here’s a brief presentation that I hope you’ll find edutaining.

Here’s the video on step 3 that I mentioned, about using Google Reader to follow comments. This might seem ridiculous to some people, but I find it to be a helpful process.

Is there any other rad and/or stupidly convoluted stuff that anyone else does using RSS feeds (other than helping Danny Choo increase his PageRank)?

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