Feeds

From this page you can decide what parts of my life you would like to be tuned into. Below is a listing of all the RSS feeds I produce - each one represents a little corner of my digital life and each one offers a different type of information. Feel free to subscribe to any one of them - or if you want the total me - you can subscribe to the mturroTOTAL feed which will give you real time updates on my status, my pictures, my links, my thoughts, my ideas, my entire online life.

mturroTOTAL - http://feeds.feedburner.com/mturro This, as stated above is the whole enchilada - an rss feed of every move I make online. It contains all the data from each of the following feeds. This feed is also available for your mobile phone via the following link… 

UPDATE: I have taken my twitter updates out of this feed… it just seemed too redundant.  So if you want to follow my twitter life, you must either subscribe to the twitter RSS below or, better yet,  join twitter and get in on the conversation.

mturroNOTES -http://feeds.feedburner.com/mturro_notes Notes are perhaps the closest I come to traditional blogging. Posts to this feed will be more gut level responses to things I come across everyday… reactions, ideas, and experiences that are longer that the 140 character twitter limit, but not quite on the order of the longer, more thought out essay.

mturroESSAY - http://feeds.feedburner.com/mturro_essayEssays are exactly that… essays just like you learned to write in school. Since these are by nature more of a thought out, worked and re-worked, drafted sort of composition, these posts will be much less frequent.

mturroRIFFS - http://feeds.feedburner.com/mturro_riffsThis category is really the “out there” category… a leftover from my days as an English Lit grad student. These posts are short-form fiction/poetry that is written cold and of the moment. They are pure stream of consciousness and may or may not make any explicit sense. Essentially they are a way for me to keep my writing mind nimble… a way to write when I don’t have that much to say (or don’t THINK I have that much to say). These posts will come in fits and starts. I could post them everyday for six weeks then stop for six more…. no pattern, all vibe.

The last three feeds make use of three popular tools that have surfaced over the last few years. Flickr, Del.icio.us, and Twitter have changed the way I approach the web, this site, and communication in general. Each of these allow me to communicate at a “micro” level. This type of communication is extremely in vogue right now and I am certainly not the only one playing with these services… in fact I strongly advise you to sign on with these services and get all “social” with me outside the confines of this blog or RSS. Any way, enough drivel here’s the feeds:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/6040892.rssI am really starting to love twitter. At first I didn’t get it at all… why make little meaningless 140 character posts that could just as easily be posted to a blog with no limit? Then I started using it. It felt good… it felt like communication… it felt like the medium being the message. Then I read (and continue to read) a bunch of analysis on what twitter means, on what exhaust data and phatic communications mean. I understand it now… perhaps more so on a visceral than intellectual level, but I am slowly coming to terms with its potential. These posts, since they are short and sweet, are frequent… sometimes several times a day… issued from anywhere on planet Earth I can get a cell signal.

Flickr - url too long to post - just click hereFlickr, for me, is simply a photo blog. This is where you can get a view into my life. Posts here are by and large straight from my cell to the web so the posts are on the average of about once a day or so.

del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us/rss/mturroThis is the link blog… the feed that points you to other interesting things on the web. Roughly once a day I try to point ya’ll toward some things on the net that I find interesting.

So that’s my rundown of RSS feeds. Obviously with the changing nature of the technology behind all this, and with the changing nature of my own vision of what my digital life should look like, this is all temporary. If you should feel like something here doesn’t work or perhaps you ahve a reccomendation on how it might be more user-friendly, the drop me aline via the contact page or leave a comment on this page and I’ll see if we can’t make it better.