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 Jul 7 2004, 06:10 AM |
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I recently put together a list of the various sites whose newsfeeds I subscribe to and added it to my site. I'm hoping as a result, anyone who stumbles across that list will:
1. Get themselves an aggregator and help make this a more mainstream technology. With any luck widespread adoption will lead to a single simple format for syndication, rather than the several incompatible ones in use now. 2. Someone will stumble upon a gem of a blog they hadn't found before and be inspired. In the interests of sharing, I've added the list here. Does anyone else have any blogs whose feeds they subscribe to, especially in the webmaster field? If so, please do share 
[list] [*]Name: A List Apart Feed: http://www.alistapart.com/rss.xml [*]Name: Design by Fire Feed: http://www.designbyfire.com/index.xml [*]Name: SimpleBits Feed: http://www.simplebits.com/xml/rss.xml [*]Name: Digital Web Magazine Feed: http://www.digital-web.com/dates/rss/ [*]Name: Mezzoblue Feed: http://www.mezzoblue.com/rss/index.xml [*]Name: sidesh0w.com Feed: http://sidesh0w.com/feed/rss2/ [*]Name: SIGNAL VS. NOISE Feed: http://www.37signals.com/svn/index_full.rdf [*]Name: Mike Davidson Feed: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/index.xml [*]Name: What Do I Know Feed: http://whatdoiknow.org/index.xml [*]Name: Hicks Design Feed: http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/?rss=1§ion=journal [*]Name: Jeffrey Veen Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/veen [*]Name: Airbag Feed: http://www.airbagindustries.com/index.xml [*]Name: Authentic Boredom Feed: http://www.cameronmoll.com/index.rdf [*]Name: asterisk* Feed: http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/index.xml [*]Name: Simon Willison's Weblog Feed: http://simon.incutio.com/syndicate/rss1.0 [*]Name: textism Feed: http://www.textism.com/?rss=1 [*]Name: Telerana Feed: http://telerana.f2o.org/index.rdf [*]Name: 456 Berea Street Feed: http://www.456bereastreet.com/feed.rdf [*]Name: Jeffrey Zeldman Feed: http://www.zeldman.com/feed/zeldman.xml [*]Name: noscope Feed: http://noscope.com/journal/feed/rss2/ [*]Name: Ben Hammersley Feed: http://www.benhammersley.com/index.rdf [*]Name: Jason Santa Maria Feed: http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/index.rdf [*]Name: plasticbag.org Feed: http://www.plasticbag.org/index.rdf [*]Name: Dilbert Feed: http://dwlt.net/tapestry/dilbert.rdf [*]Name: The Man in Blue Feed: http://www.themaninblue.com/perspective.xml [*]Name: Andy Budd Feed: http://www.andybudd.com/index.rdf [*]Name: HTML Dog Blog Feed: http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/index.xml [*]Name: Open Artifact Feed: http://blog.openartifact.org/feed/rss2/ [*]Name: SuperfluousBanter Feed: http://superfluousbanter.org/index.xml [*]Name: Daring Fireball Feed: http://daringfireball.net/index.xml [*]Name: kottke.org Feed: http://www.kottke.org/index.xml [*]Name: Alazanto Feed: http://alazanto.org/index.xml [*]Name: angiemckaig.com Feed: http://www.angiemckaig.com/index.xml [*]Name: Blakems.com Feed: http://www.blakems.com/index.xml [*]Name: Veerle Feed: ]http://veerle.duoh.com/index.xml[list] |
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Jul 7 2004, 06:19 AM |
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Nice list. I see some that I haven't seen before amongst some very good sites.
Thanks for the list. |
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Jul 7 2004, 06:20 AM |
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Jul 7 2004, 06:23 AM |
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Thanks Bill. I know your reading list must be massive - any gems you'd care to add?
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Jul 7 2004, 06:30 AM |
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I'll come up with some more for you.
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Jul 7 2004, 09:56 AM |
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I'm (re)starting to be careful with what I add and not. RSS is a convenient way to scan a lot of info, especially if your RSS reader can use filters. But one can hit the info overload soon enough again :-)
Thanks for that excellent list, by the way! Do you use M2 for your feed reading? Ruud |
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Jul 7 2004, 09:58 AM |
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QUOTE Do you use M2 for your feed reading? Naturally! I have several filters for RSS stuff too, to make the quantity easy to handle. Haven't ventured into learning filter territory yet with them, but plan to soon. One problem with M2's aggregation is it doesn't understand Atom. However, there are some good tools out there you can use to convert an Atom feed to an RSS one |
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Jul 12 2004, 09:36 AM |
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[*]Name: Stuff and Nonsense Feed: http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/index.rdf [list] As entertaining as he is clever  |
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Jul 12 2004, 09:59 AM |
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Adrian, how come that's index.rdf? Normally Opera will open newsfeeds or xml formats. I just see the code for that one. Help!
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Jul 12 2004, 10:14 AM |
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If you goto Mail --> Newsfeeds and click the New... button Barry, you can add it manually. I don't think Opera will display it in screen properly, rdf is a bit different to rss, though I'm not terribly sure in what ways. Probably means Opera isn't quite sure what to do with it.
Otherwise you could just visit his site at www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk. I've not really looked at the site before, but know of his ability from the Accessify Forums. I think he's a guy who's going to be rising quite quickly in blogging circles, his blogs not been going all that long as it is and you can already see the numbers of comments and therefore interest he's getting. |
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Jul 12 2004, 10:14 AM |
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Greetings. I have been reading this forum for a month or so now and I really enjoy the content.
I see that people have mentioned using the M2 RSS reader, which is associated with the Opera browser. Are there any other RSS readers that people are using (standalone, web-based, or otherwise)? I am interested to start using this technology for the simple reason that I am curious how it will affect the amount of related links that I tend to follow off these websites, which in some cases ends up being more beneficial than the articles I read. Thanks for all the help you have already provided me. - Scott |
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Jul 12 2004, 10:22 AM |
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Ah now I see it. Thanks, Adrian. Clearly someone to check on from time to time.
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Jul 13 2004, 04:25 AM |
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Scott - there are a few out there. Many people swear by FeedDemon, written by the same guy that wrote Homesite. There's a lot of web-based aggregators and open source ones too. Try to find one that understands both RSS and Atom if you can.
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Jul 13 2004, 08:26 AM |
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Thanks I'll check out FeedDemon!
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Jul 16 2004, 06:45 AM |
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Feed: ]http://lukew.com/ff/rss.asp[list] |
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Jul 18 2004, 06:20 AM |
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Wow, thanks Bill! An impressive list!
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Jul 22 2004, 08:58 PM |
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With a tremendous list of blogs like that to read, I'm shocked that Bill has any time to do anything else!
Wayne Hurlbert |
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Jul 22 2004, 10:55 PM |
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That's the nice thing about RSS, Wayne. Using a reader, or something like bloglines or kinja, can make it a lot easier to visit a lot of sites.
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Jul 23 2004, 08:17 AM |
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I was looking at a couple RSS readers, in particular Sage for FireFox. What I am curious about is what the RSS feeds look like in your particular RSS reader. Part of the reason that I go to these websites is to oogle at the design and functionality they have. Do you ever feel like you are missing something if you just scrape the site for information and leave behind the design?
-Scott |
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