Tag Archives: aggregators

An Accumulator for all my stuff

December 25, 2007 – 12:25 am

No one’s really noticed, but I’ve changed email providers about a dozen times in the past decade. And, that’s because my email address hasn’t changed — thanks very much to the wonderful and awesome Pobox.com. Likewise, I’ve hopped from platform to platform in blogging and writing and generally emitting memelets from my brain. In [...]

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Vienna is now my weapon of choice for feeds

January 2, 2007 – 4:37 pm

In the last few days, I’ve switched news aggregators again – this time to Vienna. I’ve got a long, long, long history of doing this – partially because of my serial enthusiasm, and partially because none of the aggregators I’ve used so far have satisfied all of my itches. Some tie up my laptop in [...]

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content sniffing sucks

November 24, 2006 – 1:28 am

If you’re using FF2.0 go here and you’ll see why.No, I don’t want to subscribe to a PHP template used to generate Atom feeds, thank you very much.Source: snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Content Sniffing Sucks I know this is just taunting the Happy Fun Ball I said I was done taunting , but there’s a [...]

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good gregarius

August 18, 2006 – 12:43 am

Oh, and apropos my serial enthusiast ways, I’ve shacked up with a different news aggregator again. I was using newsRiver again, but the temporary lack of a spare server to run it on in the midst of the move had me feedless. So, after a brief flirtation with Bloglines – which went down [...]

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Sharing attention while reading feeds

January 3, 2006 – 9:45 am

Instead of reading their individual selections of RSS feeds privately, everyone should be encouraged to publish those aggregated feeds on the Web. … the simple act of publishing those aggregations then makes them available to others, and thus makes them amenable to network effects in a way that they never can be if they’re kept [...]

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Google Reader vs Microsoft start.com

October 26, 2005 – 12:13 pm

You know how I dissed Google Reader last month? Consider it still dissed. In fact, checking in again on Microsoft’s start.com makes me think Google has a lot to learn about making a feed aggregator. I still prefer my own in-progress aggregator UI, but start.com has me thinking about ideas to steal.

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Google Reader is good

October 8, 2005 – 1:47 pm

For what it’s worth, I still feel like I’ve been unfair to the guys at Google over Reader. I know how much work must’ve gone into that thing, because I know how something like that could’ve been built. I really think it’s just because it’s not the right kind of app for me, [...]

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