8 years ago The Guardian proudly announced that they were providing full-text feeds of, well, everything: Today guardian.co.uk rolled out a major upgrade to the RSS feeds. Our feeds now contain the full content of each article so that you can take guardian.co.uk with you where...

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When time is short or my brain is full, I have two ways of marking content as worth reading at some point in the future: if it’s in google reader I star it if it’s on the wild wild web then I add it to delicious and tag it ‘readme’ The fact that I have over 600 ‘readme’ items in delicious, going back to 2004 tells us one of two things: I am not r...

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As I recently wrote, I have a new-found interest in ebooks (I also bought four new textbooks from O’Reilly using a BOGOF offer to pick up 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know, Beautiful Code and The Art of Agile Development). I mainly rea...

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Exporting the list of podcasts load the podcasting application, mark all items and hit “send -> bluetooth”. Contrary to what you might expect, this will send an OPML file listing your subscriptions to your PC Edit the list ready for import Open your new Podcasting.opml file in ...

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So everyone heard earlier this week that NewsGator is shutting do...

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sudo apt-get install python-feedparser easy_install jsonpickle sudo apt-get install couchdb easy_install couchdb sudo couchdb Open a new terminal python import feedparser, jsonpickle from couchdb import Server s = Server('http://127.0.0.1:5984/') len(s) db = s.create('feeds') len(s) doc = feedparser....

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venus-ng is a fork of Venus which uses Newsgator to provide both the reading list and the feeds. This means that venus-ng will, at a particular point in time, give you an accurate representation of your currently unread Newsgator feed entries. Here is...

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I recently broke the graphics drivers on my Windows Vista installation, so re-partitioned and now run Ubuntu full-time at home. On Windows I use FeedDemon as my full-time aggregator. It has a degree of speed and polish unmatched by any other web or desktop aggregator. This means that all my feeds are automat...

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It’s nice to see that the person-centred aggregation meme has surfaced in a couple of other places recently, where that person’s contextual relation to you is shown to be important. I still have no good idea how to a...

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A number of different things have come together for me today, this post titled Is there a need for New Newsreader?, Zeldman’s post about distributed content and Kent brewster’s FOAFster which l...

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