To the Editor

Jul 07, 2008 09:26

Dear Sirs:

I appreciate that it is technologically possible, as well as terribly modern and Web 2.0 fashionable, to put RSS feeds on everything. However, putting an RSS feed on the collected works of Epictetus is perhaps excessive. He has very few new posts per day.

Leave a comment

Comments 5

nuclearpolymer July 7 2008, 14:20:16 UTC
hee hee

Reply


ilai July 7 2008, 15:14:27 UTC
I can actually see how it might be useful as a way to gradually introduce Epictetus' works to someone (like me) who is not familiar with them... if it is done correctly.

Reply

nonnihil July 7 2008, 16:16:16 UTC
I could totally go for a chapter-a-day of the Enchiridion.

As far as I can tell, what actually happened is that the site had some sort of page template that dumps an "rss this!" link on every page regardless of whether it makes sense or not.

Reply


dolohov July 7 2008, 17:46:13 UTC
Maybe this is just what he needs to get those creative juices flowing again. Besides, nobody who's anybody writes his own blog these days. I certainly don't write mine.

Reply

nonnihil July 7 2008, 17:49:54 UTC
There would be a delightful irony in Epictetus, whose name literally translates as "chattel," employing some wage-slave intern to write for him...

Reply


Leave a comment

Up