Tag Archives: feeds

An Accumulator for all my stuff

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 [...]

OPML reading lists in FeedMagick2

For anyone who’s interested: I’ve been hacking a little bit on FeedMagick2 again, with the latest addition being an OPML reading list feed blender. What’s an OPML reading list? Basically, it’s the same as as OPML export of a feed reader’s subscription list - only rather than doing a one-time import into [...]

Say hello to FeedMagick2

Yeah, things have been basically silent around here thanks to post-work brain fryage and a general lack of things to say. Really, everyone else around the blogosphere seems to be covering things satisfactorily. However, I have been idly working on a new project over the past few weeks, namely a total rewrite and [...]

A bit of newsRiver hackery

Update: I moved this code over to my space over at hosting.opml.org and added some updater code from Nicholas Riley’s webdav tool, so that you should be able to just “Get Latest Code…” once you’ve got this installed. (Or reinstalled, if you grabbed last night’s version.) Also, I fixed a bug or two. So, [...]

More on ignorant feed handling

Part of the reason this whole must ignore thing with respect to feeds has me a bit fired up is because it seems like so few feed processing tools out there embrace this idea. And because of that, these tools are unfortunately brittle and prone to future shock. For example, take Syndication.framework on OS X: [...]

Google Reader vs Microsoft start.com

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.

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, [...]

Yak shaving, book pimping, and feed spooling

Well, of course I’ve lapsed pretty much right back into silence after having shaken this place up and having announced the arrival of the book. The culprit, of course, is yak shaving. Again. True, life itself has been pretty busy lately. The days are booked, the weekends have been filling up–and in spare [...]