The months after Google killed off Google Reader were dark. People were aimless. Wandering in the streets. We were without direction. But then, like a ray of sun piercing through an overcast day, there was Feedly. This is the reader I use for all of my input management, and enough people have asked me about it that in…
A Better Website Concept: A Lifestream Interface
One of the things I’ve always found lacking with the various types of RSS feeds available from social services is the lack of differentiation between created and discovered content. So I don’t just want to differentiate between blogs, microblogs, comments, and likes–I want to group these into categories that then have their own feeds. Why does this matter?…
Atom > RSS: Why We Should Just Call Them “Feeds” Instead of “RSS” Feeds
I’m no longer calling feeds “RSS feeds”. From now on I’m calling them “syndication” feeds, or just “feeds”. There have been two standards for doing this type of XML-based website syndication for a long time now — Atom and RSS. RSS is older and has more penetration, so its name has been confused with its function. Just like…
Reddit Has A “Network Security” Section?
[ Link: Reddit’s Network Security Category ] This rocks. I’m going to be integrating it into a sick information security news aggregation feed — using Yahoo! Pipes — here shortly (imagine a collection of feeds all combined into one, sorted by date and with duplicates removed). So far I’m going to be incorporating: LinuxSecurity PacketStorm SecurityFocus SecGuru Astalavista…
Add A “Reddit this” Option To Your Feedburner RSS Feed (FeedFlare)
I’ve just completed a “Reddit this” FeedFlare module for Feedburner users. This will add the option for your RSS users to submit your posts to reddit.com right from their RSS feed application. After it’s installed, it’ll look like this: And here’s the FeedFlare link so you can use it in your own feed. I’ll be adding it to…
3 Steps to Highly Efficient News Reading
Few things are as important to geeks as how they stay informed. Knowledge is so key to us that the ability to pull it in, process it, and ensure that it’s recallable, is absolutely vital to being effective in our work. One of the main problems we as information fetishists face is the lack of a solid, repeatable…
Reading News The GTD Way
The way most of us take in daily news is horribly inefficient. The problem isn’t how fast we read, or even what sites we go to — it’s the process of finding news, taking it in, and returning to work. Our current habits are based in the need for distraction and the fear that we’re missing something. We…