RSS Reset: Home Stretch

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

It appears that I am behind with my weekly update on the RSS Reset project.  This is probably going to be my last update on this project, and in my last paragraph I’ll make an effort to determine if I felt it was a success or not.

RSS Reset Update

Monday, June 9th, 2008

About a week ago, Corvida and I kicked off a plan that is now known as RSS Reset.  In my original post, I said I would check back periodically and let you know how I was doing.  And here we are! In the first followup post, I listed ...

Project RSS Reset Gets Underway

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

I already have news about the little RSS reset project that I kicked off earlier today! Corvida Corvida has made her move over at ReadWriteWeb.  Hopefully we will get some more enterprising souls to give the project a go. Caleb Caleb Elston, the creator of Toluu, has been a strong supporter of this move.  ...

RSS Feed Mayhem

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Tonight, I was chatting with Corvida, and the topic of RSS feed overflow came up.  We were both frustrated because there was so much new (potentially great) content being produced every day, that we couldn't keep up! A radical new plan was hatched that we both agreed ...

Notes Now Included in RSSmeme FriendFeed Feed

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

As I was catching up in Google Reader this morning, I noticed this item in my RSSmeme FriendFeed feed.  I highlighted the new change -- it now appends all Google Reader shared item notes! I'm not sure when this was added, but I think it is ...

5 Unlikely but Great Ways of Reading Feeds

Friday, May 16th, 2008

If you like to catch up on your favorite sites using a feed reader, you are most likely using Google Reader or Bloglines. If you prefer an offline (installable app-based) feed reader, you may be using Newsgator's FeedDemon or some other standalone app. However, in this article I will introduce ...

Tell Me About RSSmeme

Monday, May 12th, 2008

This isn't going to be just any run-of-the-mill review from me. Why? Because the application I am going to review is different in several substantial ways: It isn't a piece of software you install on your PC It isn't a web application like Gmail or YouTube It really isn't exactly meant to be ...

Please Digg: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

I normally wouldn't ask this of my readers, but I'm trying to raise the profile of RSSmeme and this is a good eye-catching article. If you use Digg or Mixx, please vote this story up! Thanks! Curious how many people are using Google Reader notes? In the last 24 ...

Quick Way For FriendFeed Users to Find New Blogs

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Do you use FriendFeed, and follow a bunch of people? You might be interested in this little RSSmeme link that, once you put in you FF username, find the links published by your peeps and ranks them by popularity. Grab the RSS feed and voila, you have a ...

Blogging Has Changed Me

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

I've only been working on this site full-time for a few weeks now. But already, in that time, I've found that my things I consider important have changed, and habits I have had for years have also started to change. First, I've been using twitter a lot. I really didn't ...

Louis Gray: Comments that Live Outside of the Blog, Good or Evil?

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

457999405Louis Gray has a great write-up on different A-list blogger's takes on the thorny issue of comment systems that work in tandem with RSS feeds to allow commenting outside of the blogs the articles were originally written on. One of the more frequently mentioned suggestions for avid Google Reader users is ...

FeedFlare, Disqus and gReader

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

In my last post I asked the question, "how can I show how many comments my entries have in my feed?"  I actually sent an email to TechDirt (since I read their feed and it has that feature) and Dennis Yang (who is on Twitter too!) wrote me a very ...