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Look before you leap

19 February, 2007 - 71 words
A mental reminder to check first whether a new owner provides RSS feeds for searches in a service they’ve just bought before learning

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Listening to OPML changes

03 October, 2006 - 505 words
At work we’re putting together a wiki page which lists which feeds we should probably all be subscribed to. This mirrors the increasing amount of RSS we’re creating both in the team and across the University as a whole. We’re writing the list of feeds as a bulleted list which links to both the main site and the ...

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Make me stay with WikidPad

07 June, 2006 - 110 words
I drop in and out of using WikidPad. I’ve just picked it up again after a lengthy absence. What would make me adopt it full time? Some extension ideas from the top of my head: an RSS aggregator (a new “Feeds” tree maybe) Trac integration (the WikidPad website is powered by Trac, so this would be nice, and we use it at work) – this could be a new item in “Views” wher...

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RSS wars are back!

25 February, 2006 - 54 words
The RSS wars are back and if someone’s not careful, with the resignation of Dave Sifry (and potentially others) from the does-it/doesn’t-it exist RSS advisory board, they’ll be in full swing in just a few days. It’s so sad just to what extent RSS is now just damage to route around.

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Apple's photocasting arse

18 January, 2006 - 49 words
Thanks to Mark Pilgrim for yet again daring to step where mortals fear to tread: Unofficial documentation of iPhoto 6.0 photocasting feeds It’s hard to believe that anyone could produce such a mess and dare to call it RSS really.

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Why poll for changes?

17 January, 2006 - 540 words
Two things I’ve come across today have talked about the integration of external RSS feeds into a site or application: SniffingGlu and user control of syndication and

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Back burner projects

13 December, 2005 - 275 words
In the hope that writing them down might goad me into doing some of them, here’s a list of things which keep running through my head but which I’ve done little or nothing about: Fix my blog template so that you can navigate between posts from an individual post’s page Make blog archive page navigation easier When I post a form, intercept it with Greasemonkey (

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Automatic unsubscribe is wrong

01 November, 2005 - 226 words
Last week sometime I read about FeedDemon’s new automatic unsubscribe feature and it bothered me, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. kellan’s just written an article on it called Automat...

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