In my article on blogging, I commented on the links between contemporary blogging and diary writing in the seventeenth century: This is not unlike the situation in the 17th century, when political pamphlets and salacious broadsheets were the talk of French Salons and British coffee houses. The same period also saw the spread of new [...]
I’ve added a new feature for all those who simply can’t get enough of Keywords – a “side blog” or “link blog” of fun, interesting links that I like, but simply don’t have the time or interest in writing a whole long blog post about. You’ll see it over on the right side, just below [...]
Syndicate your schedule! I’ve long been using PHP iCalendar which allows me to sync my iCal Calendar without using an expensive .Mac account, and also offers RSS feeds for individual calendars! But I haven’t included this in my ongoing efforts to build a list of uses for RSS feeds because this seemed like a Mac-only [...]
One of the big problems with running a full-text newsfeed on your website is that it makes it difficult to keep track of how many people are reading your blog. On the other hand, for people like myself who use software like NetNewsWire, or FeedDemon to read all their favorite blogs, it is very annoying [...]
Continuing my ongoing quest to document new and innovate uses for RSS feeds… Looks like Google is pushing Atom (a standard that “competes” with RSS) with the launch of the Google Groups2 beta. They have added Atom feeds for thousands of Usenet groups. Here’s where you can link to one such feed. Posted here, found [...]
For those who don’t know about Slashdot, here is the wikipedia entry: Slashdot (frequently abbreviated online as “/.”) is a popular technology-oriented weblog, primarily consisting of short summaries of stories on other websites with links to the stories, and provisions for readers to comment on the story. Each story generally receives between 50 and 700 [...]
Gnews2RSS An experimental convertor that takes a Google News search and turns it into RSS Very cool. Although, it seems that Google doesn’t like it – at least not when people post the results of such searches to their web site. It should be OK for personal use. If you have your own server, downloading [...]
Xeni Jardin of boingboing.net wrote the following: In an item about RSS for the current issue of Wired Magazine, I wrote: “Job seekers anxious about seeing the freshest Craigslist posts can subscribe to a feed instead of hitting Reload for hours in a paranoid funk.” Responding to this, Steve Rose of RSSJobs writes, “FYI, RSSJobs [...]
I’ve been very happy with my Amazon RSS Feed Generator. It has alerted me to quite a few new books coming out on topics that I’m interested in. The only frustrating thing is that many of them are not yet in print, so I have to wait! Now I just discovered a site that does [...]
This is a post for the New Yorkers out there. I’m sure there are similar services for other cities, and I hope people will write about them in the comments. Riding the New York City Subway can be like playing the slot machine. Because of constant construction on the 100 year old system, the trains [...]