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RSS


Happy RSS Awareness Day!

RSS helps me keep track of so many websites, it’s not funny. I’ve saved time and learned so much more than if I browsed from website to website.
What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) [...]

How do you organize your news reader?

In Bloglines, I currently have the following folders:

Comics
Hot Deals
Miscellaneous
Music - mainly CD releases
Personal - friends, blogs that cover scattered topics
Productivity
Scrutinizing - feeds I’ve recently subscribed to; in a few weeks, I’ll either move them to another folder or unsubscribe entirely
Software
Tech

Questions

How do you organize your feeds?
How do you read them efficiently?
How can you improve this system?
Are [...]

RSS in Plain English

If you haven’t heard of RSS, or haven’t used Bloglines, Google Reader, Netvibes, or Newsgator, please watch this video: RSS in Plain English. It’ll explain how it’ll save you time and make your life much easier — in less than 4 minutes! (via Chris Pirillo, Twitter)

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There are two types of Internet users, those [...]

Ask the Readers: How do I allow feeds for categories?

I’m currently using FeedBurner Plugin 2.2 to redirect all feeds to http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllNarfedUp and http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllNarfedUpComments. But, I want categories to have specific feeds, too — specifically the podcasts. Can you please help me?
Update 3/8/2007 @ 1:05pm: I had to update the Permalink Redirect WordPress plugin. Category feeds are back in business!

Sign the FullFeeds petition

Bryan hates partial RSS and Atom feeds, so he signed the fullfeeds petition. [via Robert Scoble]

FeedBurner plugin installed

I’ve finally setup FeedBurner here utilizing the FeedBurner plugin. If you want, please change the main feed URL to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllNarfedUp
For comments:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllNarfedUpComments
The old feed still works, but can anyone tell me the .htaccess code to redirect the old feed? Thanks! (And thanks to Steve Smith!)

More subscription options for more subscribers

Thanks to the suggestion by James, I’m using iFeedReaders to make subscribing to All Narfed Up easier. There’s so many online feed readers that it’s hard to have a link for each one.
Add to Any was okay, but I think iFeedReaders simply looks and feels more comfortable. I also implemented the iFeedReaders social bookmark link [...]

Cutting down RSS feeds

I went into Bloglines this morning to look through the tech-related feeds I’m subscribed to. I usually open articles in a new tab if I think they’ll be interesting. Anyway, going over just the digg.com feed, I’ve got 25 tabs open right now. 25! I think I’ll be switching to the Top Stories feed to [...]

Bloglines Subscribe with Greasemonkey

Userscripts.org is a nice site for Greasemonkey scripts. I’m stoked because a script has made it easier for me to subscribe to Bloglines when a site has syndication feeds. (Golf clap: Kapil’s Korner)

RSS Tutorial

If you check a slew of websites, blogs, and online newspapers on a regular basis, you better be utilizing RSS. Chances are that they all have that method of syndication. I barely browse websites anymore, unless it’s a new one and I’m looking around.
Les Bain has written a really thorough tutorial about RSS. So if [...]

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