I’ve basically done no work on wxVenus for one big reason: FeedDemon. I was trying a number of different desktop aggregators for a few days at a time to see which UI components and methods of feed reading I liked the most, but ended up never leaving FeedDemon. Everything...

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I was doing OK with BlogBridge, but in the last month it’s dropped all my data twice and then prevented me from re-importing all my feeds by disabling all the feed action buttons and menu items such as “add feed, import feed” etc. Luckily it does an automatic export of your subscription list as OPML every time you make a change to the list of feed...

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I’ve not used a desktop aggregator for close to a year now, getting my information instead from these strange and archaic webpages, some of which are mini-aggregators like Digg or my del.icio.us network. Recently however, I’ve been slowly picking up the pace again (which means visiting more than thir...

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One of the nicest things about Bloglines is that it uses site favicons to display the list of feeds in the left-hand frame. Very nice it looks too. There are three free self-hostable web aggregators that I know of: FeedOnFeeds, Lilina and Gregarious. All of them ...

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I’ve just realised a flaw in my feeds. When I provide a blockquote, I always fill in the cite attribute, and then use JavaScript to pull it out and display a link to the source after the quote itself, but of course this doesn’t work in aggregators, and they’ll never see the link to my source, let alone know where it’s from! They’d need to either look at the source of the fee...

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So, a quick twelve-monthly roundup for usage of philwilson.org is in order I think. For these stats I only looked at the fifty most frequent visitng user-agents Overall, hits were pretty 50-50 between browsers and aggregators. I don’t have last years’ logs, but if I did I bet I’d have seen a massive surge in the number of aggregators being...

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I’ve noticed that my RSS reading habits are markedly different to those of the other people I know who also use aggregators. Using either desktop aggregators like FeedThing or SharpReader or a web-based aggregator like Bloglines they all read feeds in the same way:

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Bloglines just announced their new web services Including feed synchronisation, and enabled in several aggregators including FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and

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Bill de hÓra recently wrote an interesting article on mapping Atom to RDF, and in the process linking individual entries to the feed which contains them by virtue of a <atom:feed rdf:resource="feed-url"/>. This is a very interesting area to me at the moment, and it seems strange that a...

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I’ve started to dream about aggregators. Someone help me.

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