Then you should be. Not only is Firefox the safest way to surf the Internet, not only is EVERYBODY doing it (one million downloads in 4 days), and not only is it NOT Internet Explorer (a good enough reason there), but the Firefox designers have added two really cool features to the browser: 1) rss feeds and 2) wikalong. The rss feeds feature is the ability at the push of a button to subscribe to the rss feed of a website as a Firefox bookmark. I'm still loyal to
Bloglines and think that's a better choice for heavy internet readers, but if you only want to subscribe to a few sites, than this Firefox feature can be really useful. Plus, it pushes us closer to some kind of new interactivity and new experience with the Internet.
I just heard about the wikalong feature today and am still trying to wrap my brain around what it could mean. To quote the
Firefox people:
" Wikalong is a FirefoxExtension that embeds a wiki in the SideBar of your browser, indexed off the url of your current page. It is probably most simply described as a wiki-margin for the internet."
Too cool, way too cool. I'm really interested in your ideas: how could this technology be used in education or IDT?
Here's a screenshot of what wikalong would look like:
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Speaking of only subscribing to a few sites - I have dozens of RSS feeds in Sage (the built in RSS reader in FireFox) and so far as I can tell there is no limit on what it can handle. I was using Sage when I discovered your post. I am a pretty substantial internet user and I have yet to find any setbacks in this RSS reader.
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