Kathy Shaidle mentioned myCatholic.com the other day and recommended the web page as your new home page and I wanted to concur.
Tim Harrison is a great guy and very generous, who redesigned this blog to strip away all the extra gunk and add some good functionality, and he did it pro bono.
The myCatholic page allows you to get news headlines from Catholic and secular sources, the Saint of the Day, headline feeds from any blog with special easy links to popular Catholic blogs, weather, sports, Mass times, and more.
And best of all he does it all for free. Of course, nothing in the world is really free, except grace, and so Tim is asking for donations. He has a goal of $1000 and has raised less than half of that so far. I think that’s a modest goal and he should be able to raise much more for everything he provides so I ask any of you who have a couple of extra bucks to spare to send it his way. And definitely make his page your home page. It’s worth it.
I hate to say this but everything that is offered on that site is sorta already out there on the net. And not to be too judgemental but mycatholic doesn’t provide rss support.
Sorry I know alot of work went into it but it really does just re-invent the wheel.
All those things are out there, but puts them all in one place. Webmail, maps, search and news existed before Google did it in a new way and put them all together.
I’m not sure what your criticism regarding RSS entails.
I must say, that using myCatholic.com to get my daily news COMPLETELY lets me bypass all the secular FILTH out there. Neener neener neener!
Hey! Its Catholic! What else matters? USE IT!!!
Sorry I’ll explain in more detail. I don’t use google’s home page or yahoo’s. I use other things.
Webmail – I can monitor my two gmails and my one yahoomail with extensions in Firefox.
Search – built into Firefox
Dictionary – Built into Firefox
As you can tell I use Firefox so when it starts up I have it load NOAA.org set to my exact location and to Bloglines. I also use the weatherfox extension for updates. And with Bloglines you can see when any web site has been updated.
When I said that mycatholic doesn’t support RSS feeds I was comparing it to yahoo and google, which do.
IMHO, “my pages” don’t work for me because you are limited to only what they offer while generic things like Bloglines does not.
take care.
First, myCatholic.com does actually support RSS feeds, if you mean that you can enter a feed and have it display the contents of the feed on your page.
Second, I don’t think every web page is supposed to be for every person. If it doesn’t work for you, if you don’t use it, if it’s too elementary for you, great. But recognize that perhaps most people are not as technically astute as you. Some people need more basic services. Some people aren’t as capable of working with advanced web sites.
If I say that there’s a food court at the mall that offers decent food from a variety of cuisines, you might reply, “Yeah, but I can get all those cuisines at standalone restaurants all over town and the food will be better there.”
Yeah, you’re right, but maybe there are people who don’t want to go those restaurants. Maybe they prefer to have a variety to sample from in one place that they feel comfortable in.
De gustibus non disputandum
“First, myCatholic.com does actually support RSS feeds, if you mean that you can enter a feed and have it display the contents of the feed on your page.”
OOppps!! Just checked the site again found this: September 21, 2005
• NEW CONTENT: Added the ability to add up to eight custom RSS/Atom feeds.
Looks like they added it after I ended my trial. I stand corrected.
“De gustibus non disputandum”
Sorry my background is in Engineering, so aside from a few french classes back in Catholic grammer school, English is all I got. Would you be so kind to translate.
take care
It’s Latin for “You can’t dispute taste.” In other words, what works or doesn’t work for you is not necessarily binding on the tastes or desires of others.