Archive for the 'rss' Category

RSS Request

June 15th, 2008

I love syndication, be it RSS or Atom, and I probably love it more than the next guy.  Because I love it as much as I do, I have no problem asking this:
If you offer an feed, PLEASE subscribe to it yourself.  That way, if there’s a problem, you will notice along with your readers.
That [...]


myRSS Reader

March 1st, 2008

I read a lot of RSS feeds, and usually end up doing things with them.
I’ve been a big fan of Vienna for Mac.  It’s free, and it does many things right.
I’ve tried Google Reader, and like some features a lot.  Other features drive me up a wall.
Now I can and will try NewsFire, for free.  [...]


Finally, I get feedburner

January 21st, 2008

So I have off for Martin Luther King day today.  I found myself with a chunk of time, and decided once and for all, to make feedburner work for me.  Happily, I can now say that I did that, and can move on.
You will notice the bright orange RSS logo on the side there… that [...]


Minor distractions

December 5th, 2007

In an effort to keep my mind occupied elsewhere, here are a couple of distractions to share.
The Magical Minimalism of Microformat - The New York Times tipping their hat to Microformats
Internet Explorer 8 - Please don’t be lying, please don’t be lying, please don’t be lying…
Email Standards Project - Please turn out to [...]


RSS newsreaders

October 3rd, 2007

I am a big fan of Sage, the RSS newsreader plugin for Firefox.  In my move, I have tried a few other apps that I thought would be a little better at handling the on-again, off-again nature of me checking my favorite feeds.
I tried Vienna for mac, as it was free, and it worked on [...]