Archive for the ‘Feeds’ Category

Are You In My Feed Reader?

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Many bloggers have a blogroll to give some link love to the blogs they read regularly. I don’t - yet. I’m planning to create one and display 5 random links in my sidebar, but for the moment, here is a list of the blogs I read. (more…)

Feed Reading Models

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Over the past six months, my feed reading habits have evolved. I used to read summary feeds in a desktop reader, but I’ve moved towards the more common model of reading full post feeds in a web based reader.

I wasn’t really conscious of this change, until I read Meg’s Hey You! Yes you, with the Partial Feed. I started off by defending summary feeds, but ended up realising that I’d come to value full post feeds as much as most bloggers. (more…)

Feed Autodiscovery Guide

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Most modern browsers can automatically detect feeds offered by websites with feed autodiscovery enabled. This makes it easier to subscribe to these sites. If your blog doesn’t have feed autodiscovery enabled already, you need to set it up. Why make it harder for people to subscribe to your site? (more…)

Google Reader - Printing Full Text For All Items

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

EDIT: There is no longer any need for this hack - simply get the latest version (2.0) of the Google Reader Print Button script.

I normally use a desktop feed reader, but I’ve recently been trying out web based feed readers. Google Reader seems to be the best, but it lacks the ability to print more than one full text item in the Expanded View. A simple hack to the Google Reader Print Button script for Greasemonkey fixes this.

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An Avalanche Of Content - RSS To The Rescue

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Content, content, content! There is so much content flowing around the Internet, that it’s impossible to keep up with it all. I want to read the latest news, sports, blogs, development info, etc, but I have no time to visit hundreds of sites. How do I manage? The answer: RSS. (more…)

This is just a link to a project for my students. Please ignore.

WordPress Plugins by Stephen Cronin
DualFeeds: Offer both full text & summary feeds. Let your readers choose!
IFrameWidgets: Stop slow javascript widgets breaking your page layout!
FeedEntryHeader: Add a copyright statement to the TOP of your feed!
LocalCurrency: Show currency values to readers in their own currency!
KeywordLuv: Reward your commentators with keyword rich anchor text!