Tag Archives: feeds

Change the way you read with a mashup

2006.12.05 – 7:55 pm PST

I was reading my feeds earlier, using Firefox and thought about increasing the font size, so in the menu bar, View-> Text Size, a couple times, and my eyes were happier. The next menu option below Text Size is Page Style, and it had two options, Basic Page Style, and No Style. Choosing no style instantly gave me a rather long River of News style of reading my feeds.

So anyways on to the thought I had while doing this, Google Maps has mashups.

Why not a Google Reader Mashup? I’m no HTML guru but I think all you would really need to change is the first CSS file it calls for in the source using Greasemonkey. Maybe something simple and put the sidebar on the other side? Or change and add more keyboard shortcuts? A search box?

Say pressing control + ? brings up the keyboard shortcuts on the FAQ. using some DHTML goodness or whatever they’re using these days and have it be overlayed on the webpage, like they have on Netflix for when you have the cursor over a movie title.

I was reading something, and later thought about it more and wanted to read it again, but forgot to star it.
I would go and read all the posts, scanning through possibly hundreds of items, but why would I do that. Oh yea I have to.

It honestly feels weird having a page on Google which does not include a Search box. Almost every other page I’ve seen on Google has one. Ideally I wouldn’t mind having the option to perform a Google search on information only posted from my feeds. This would obviously include more logic.

I’m sure there are other things that would be cool to modify the reader to do we just need to think of them.

Maybe Google will soon open up Reader like Maps, and let people do fun things with feed reading.

[tags]freedbacking, google_reader, aggregators, mashups, ideas, searching_feeds, searching, help, keyboard_shortcuts[/tags]

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reading feeds on google.

2006.11.10 – 8:31 pm PST

Maybe it’s me, but managing my subscriptions should be a lot easier. Google Reader needs to be able to edit tag names. Right now you can make as many tags as you want, and delete them. WTF?

ideas for tags to use on top of what you may already have them organized by;
daily, spare time,bored, fun, projects, movie reviews, Netflix, news.
for
better tag based reading
allow tags to include tag groupings.
daily = netflix + projects + news
fun = movie reviews + spare time + bored

Grouping the tags together, for me at least forms smaller and more manageableriver of news, which are easy to read(skim), and I also have some organization to my reading. I really don’t like having to go through hundreds of the newest releases on my netflix feed every week, or the constant spew of articles from the internet archive which i sometimes troll through for things of interestingness.

[tags]freedbacking, reading_feeds, ideas, tags, tagging, grouping[/tags]

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stupidity

2006.07.24 – 2:30 am PDT

[tags]wordpress, plugins, tags[/tags]

i think i just figured out why my tags have been screwed up. having ultimate tag warrior, and jeromes keywords, activated at the same time is bad. it was so bad, that I couldn’t tell really why, but it was odd, that some tags/keywords worked, but only the ones which was a keyword and also a tag. ohwell live and learn.
I also need to figure out why the feeds are not working for tag urls.

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Democracy Internet TV

2006.07.23 – 3:12 am PDT

Democracy: Internet TV

[tags]internet, feeds, bittorrent, client, opensource, television, software, media, player,torrents[/tags]

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earthlink reader update.

2006.07.17 – 4:06 pm PDT

Well, I don’t think that Earthlink should say it will take 10-15 minutes when it has been several days now since I last uploaded my opml export from bloglines. I would like all my feeds to be there please. Here’s what I got when I uploaded it again.

“We already know about 42 sources, so we’ve added them to Your Sources. There were 39 sources that were new to us, so we’ve sent our little robots out over the internet to go fetch articles for you. Give them about 10-15 minutes to retrieve everything, and you’ll have all 81 sources from your OPML file available.”

Also I noticed that my blog, managed to now have two ID’s in their system. 2007, and 4039. They aren’t checking for unique sites in their feeds database I guess? Could this be why I have been getting hit twice each time the earthlink robots come to my site?

[tags]freedbacking, earthlink, reader, aggregator, feeds, opml_import[/tags]

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EarthLink’s new feed aggregator

2006.07.13 – 6:02 pm PDT

I just signed up for Earthlink’s myEarthLink Reader, because I’m always looking for a better way to read my feeds. I still really like Bloglines reader, as it keeps all my feeds in a nice neat organized folder like way. The export I made from Bloglines, to myEarthLink Reader, did not use any of these folders, it only imported all my feeds, and showed me what’s currently availible, while the robot behind the scenes went out and retrieved the rest of my feeds. I imported about 87 feeds, of which the Reader only knew about 16 sources. So I just added quite a bit to their known feeds I would say.
I’m still in the “I like to read feeds individually, and organized” method. You can still read the feeds individually, but they are not organized how I like to read. Overall if you like reading feeds mashed up together into pages, then you might like the “Recently Updated” feature. The Reader, also makes it easy for you to import/export your OPML, by clicking on settings, and choosing the appropriate link. Also making it easy to change how links are loaded, same window, or new window, and how much of the article you which to view, long/short.
After signing up for a free earthlink account, I noticed something is sorely missing from their navigation link back to the Reader, which is why I signed up.
I also noticed that while the account signup page only allows for password up to a length of 8 characters, the other login password fields, and such throughout the site allow for more seemingly unlimited number of characters, which breaks my most favorite, and much used Firefox extension, PwdHash.
As I end writing this the Reader Robot still has not completely added my feeds to the list. The 10 to 15 minutes which it said was needed is apparently more. No big deal, I’ll just comeback tomarrow, and hopefully they will be there. Of course the more and more people who use this reader, the more feeds availible for other readers, and no waiting for them.

[update] I’m just guessing here, but going from the ID given to my Livejournal blog, 2003, there is ~2000 feeds they know about.

[update] EarthLink’s Reader is also double requesting the feed my site also.

px.ns1.net 209.179.163.114 - - [14/Jul/2006:02:41:27 -0700] "GET //feed/ HTTP/1.1" 200 79791 "-" "myEarthlinkReader/1.0 (http://reader.earthlink.net/; 1 subscribers)" VLOG=-
px.ns1.net 209.179.163.114 - - [14/Jul/2006:02:41:28 -0700] "GET //feed/ HTTP/1.1" 200 79791 "-" "Java/1.5.0_06" VLOG=-

[update] I think it’s working very slowly.  It must need more time.
“We already know about 32 sources, so we’ve added them to Your Sources. There were 54 sources that were new to us, so we’ve sent our little robots out over the internet to go fetch articles for you. Give them about 10-15 minutes to retrieve everything, and you’ll have all 86 sources from your OPML file available.”

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[tags]freedbacking, RSS, Feeds, Reader, Aggregator, Earthlink, Internet, AJAX[/tags]

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Reasons to Feed

2006.07.12 – 10:58 pm PDT

Paul Gibler goes over the many reasons why companies should use RSS feeds.
“No RSS feed? You’re fired!“

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[tags]blogging, blogs, RSS, feeds, reasons[/tags]

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wordpress plugins rss feed

2006.06.12 – 1:52 am PDT

http://www.wp-plugins.net/rss2.php

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Bad Behavior has blocked 1454 access attempts in the last 7 days.

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