Tag Archives: aggregation

FeedSpool is progressing nicely

I’m at it again: Last night, I got an initial stab at a plugin API for FeedSpool working. The first thing I built was an auto-adjusting feed poll schedule plugin which varies the time between feed polls based on whether there were new entries found in the latest poll. It’s kind of like an [...]

The zen of firehose drinking

So in the last few days, I’ve read two blog posts lamenting symptoms of information overload, one about a backlog of aggregator items and another about unread mailing list threads. The common thread I’ve seen between both of these–and other bloggers expressing similar sentiments–is a vague sort of guilt over “missing something”. However, [...]