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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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Reading Lists, OPML, XOXO, Semantic Web, and Tools

February 13, 2006 – 12:09 pm

Listening to this podcast about OPML and Reading Lists and enjoying the various perspectives on RSS, OPML, and Semantic Web tech. It’s also the first time I’ve heard Danny Ayers’ voice, so that was pretty cool after having been a textual blog acquaintance for a few years now. As for the rest of [...]

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Ancient code drifting down the newsRiver

January 28, 2006 – 1:08 am

So, while working through some writing blockages last weekend, I started doing some hacking on Dave Winer’s newsRiver running on the OPML Editor platform. (Oh, and it is a platform, maybe more so than even emacs—don’t let the moniker ‘editor’ fool you.) Here’s the thing: It was a lot of addictive fun, and it [...]

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A bit of newsRiver hackery

January 21, 2006 – 1:54 am

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, [...]

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Use del.icio.us to build & share Reading Lists?

January 19, 2006 – 3:08 pm

As far as I know, the most popular link managment tool is del.icio.us, a tool I love for its power and simplicity. del.icio.us allow you to export all your links in RSS which is cool. So, I wrote a quick and dirty PHP script that converts this RSS export to an OPML list (see at [...]

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Smarty is on my evil list

January 7, 2006 – 8:33 pm

Although I have my grousing about PHP in general, I have to say that it makes much better template language as-is before pulling something like Smarty into the mix. At this point, I consider Smarty to be evil—though I’m willing to admit that I haven’t grokked it fully yet. And this is coming [...]

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OCD thoughts, syndicated

January 7, 2006 – 4:49 pm

Weirdest search referrer of the year so far: ocd thoughts that i want to kill someone The last hit on the first page of results goes to my blog entry, “Info Freako, or who’s already past arguing about syndication formats?” To whomever you are: If this was a call for help, stay far away [...]

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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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