Comments on: RSS Feed cleanup part deux, 250 feeds target http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:21:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Get your own Megite news page with RSS, also showing some RoN love » Make You Go Hmm http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-346630 Get your own Megite news page with RSS, also showing some RoN love » Make You Go Hmm Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:15:06 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-346630 [...] Reblog is a free rsss reader that can be installed on your own server [Hmm review: Reblog]. In August of this year I made a Reblog screencast showing how fast you can skim through posts. If you a little extra time, install this program and then try it for a month. Try reading your RSS feeds this way and get back to me with how it works for you. Hands down to date this is the most efficient way I’ve found to skim/read the maximum amount of material in the minimum amount of time. Related PostsWP plugin Bad Behavior and Techmeme bot conflict resolution[site news] Problems with Wordpress and slow queriesFlexbeta: 13 Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE [...] […] Reblog is a free rsss reader that can be installed on your own server [Hmm review: Reblog]. In August of this year I made a Reblog screencast showing how fast you can skim through posts. If you a little extra time, install this program and then try it for a month. Try reading your RSS feeds this way and get back to me with how it works for you. Hands down to date this is the most efficient way I’ve found to skim/read the maximum amount of material in the minimum amount of time. Related PostsWP plugin Bad Behavior and Techmeme bot conflict resolution[site news] Problems with Wordpress and slow queriesFlexbeta: 13 Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Hmm quickies #40 and reaching 10,000 posts marked ‘publish’ http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-294341 Make You Go Hmm: » Hmm quickies #40 and reaching 10,000 posts marked ‘publish’ Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:59:20 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-294341 [...] The most subscribed I’ve ever been is in the 400+ feeds range. At the time I felt I couldn’t keep up with that many so I went through a major cleaning and have since learned about an efficient system that helps me scan and read through a significant number of posts every day. The system I’m currently using allows me to sift through nearly 200 feeds daily without getting swamped or taking too much time. I feel like the number could be 250 or even 300+ without burying me, but that hasn’t been tested yet. With a couple vacations and AFK time I did get as much as nearly 10,000 posts behind, but I was able to get caught back up without surrendering to the reblog equivalent of “mark all as read.” [...] […] The most subscribed I’ve ever been is in the 400+ feeds range. At the time I felt I couldn’t keep up with that many so I went through a major cleaning and have since learned about an efficient system that helps me scan and read through a significant number of posts every day. The system I’m currently using allows me to sift through nearly 200 feeds daily without getting swamped or taking too much time. I feel like the number could be 250 or even 300+ without burying me, but that hasn’t been tested yet. With a couple vacations and AFK time I did get as much as nearly 10,000 posts behind, but I was able to get caught back up without surrendering to the reblog equivalent of “mark all as read.” […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Filtering 6,000+ posts [screencast] http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-284737 Make You Go Hmm: » Filtering 6,000+ posts [screencast] Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:11:48 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-284737 [...] I’ve been speaking fondly about reBlog since March. It’s a great RSS reader and tool for bloggers. It’s assisted me in pouring through well over 75,000 posts total and 500-1,000+ new posts every day. The screencast below takes through the filtering process of a couple hundred posts. [...] […] I’ve been speaking fondly about reBlog since March. It’s a great RSS reader and tool for bloggers. It’s assisted me in pouring through well over 75,000 posts total and 500-1,000+ new posts every day. The screencast below takes through the filtering process of a couple hundred posts. […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Look more forward than back, two million in the distance http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-238527 Make You Go Hmm: » Look more forward than back, two million in the distance Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:20:14 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-238527 [...] started with reBlog as primary RSS Reader. I’m not sure if reBlog was available back in 2003 when this blog was created, but reBlog has become the best RSS reading experience for bloggers that I’ve tried to date. And I’ve tried at least a dozen different systems including web-based, desktop and readers that integrate with mail programs. I’m able to pour through the maximum amount of RSS content in a very short amount of time using reBlog. On a busy news/RSS day, literally thousands of posts roll through my aggregator. My earlier RSS reading wasn’t nearly as efficient or organized and wasted time that could have been spent relaxing, doing other work and/or creating more posts. Get a system going with reading that maximizes your time. [...] […] started with reBlog as primary RSS Reader. I’m not sure if reBlog was available back in 2003 when this blog was created, but reBlog has become the best RSS reading experience for bloggers that I’ve tried to date. And I’ve tried at least a dozen different systems including web-based, desktop and readers that integrate with mail programs. I’m able to pour through the maximum amount of RSS content in a very short amount of time using reBlog. On a busy news/RSS day, literally thousands of posts roll through my aggregator. My earlier RSS reading wasn’t nearly as efficient or organized and wasted time that could have been spent relaxing, doing other work and/or creating more posts. Get a system going with reading that maximizes your time. […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Stop using Alexa for serious traffic analysis http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-65716 Make You Go Hmm: » Stop using Alexa for serious traffic analysis Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:38:36 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-65716 [...] The breakdown with aggregators BTW, I don’t think tech.memeorandum should have no competition, but let’s be realistic here: how many tech bloggers want or need or actually can follow more than one tech news aggregator? I follow digg more closely than Slashdot simply because there’s no time to cover both extensively. I like boing boing and engadget, but I don’t like sucking on their firehoses. If I tried to cover TM and its numerous clones, I’d miss reading some individual blogs simply from the nature of trying to keep up with the constantly evolving nature of these sites. I don’t even visit TM every day any more, which in my opinion is the least disruptive of the ones I’ve seen, for this very reason. I’ve gone back to reading my RSS list more (with the help of reblog) than following the aggregators. It’s too easy to get sucked into the echo chamber of the same group of bloggers if any one aggregator source — and that includes TM — is used too extensively for too long a period of time. This is no grand revelation, other bloggers have noticed this too. [...] […] The breakdown with aggregators BTW, I don’t think tech.memeorandum should have no competition, but let’s be realistic here: how many tech bloggers want or need or actually can follow more than one tech news aggregator? I follow digg more closely than Slashdot simply because there’s no time to cover both extensively. I like boing boing and engadget, but I don’t like sucking on their firehoses. If I tried to cover TM and its numerous clones, I’d miss reading some individual blogs simply from the nature of trying to keep up with the constantly evolving nature of these sites. I don’t even visit TM every day any more, which in my opinion is the least disruptive of the ones I’ve seen, for this very reason. I’ve gone back to reading my RSS list more (with the help of reblog) than following the aggregators. It’s too easy to get sucked into the echo chamber of the same group of bloggers if any one aggregator source — and that includes TM — is used too extensively for too long a period of time. This is no grand revelation, other bloggers have noticed this too. […]

]]> By: Sterling Camden http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-60435 Sterling Camden Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:20:39 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-60435 OK, I got off my __ and fixed the feed content: http://www.chipstips.com/microblog/index.php/post/256/ OK, I got off my __ and fixed the feed content: http://www.chipstips.com/microblog/index.php/post/256/

]]> By: Sterling Camden http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-60396 Sterling Camden Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:16:28 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-60396 Wow, I'm honored -- now I'll have to really work on content for my rambling blog. One of my to-do's for the site is to improve the feed. The site uses bbcode for posts and comments, and the feed just dumps the bbcode as text. Besides the obvious downsides of not making images and links live, it also has the potentially dangerous side-effect of interpreting embedded code as live. In other words, if my post contains an example javascript enclosed in script tags, it could execute in your feed reader! Not that I would do that sort of thing...usually. Wow, I’m honored — now I’ll have to really work on content for my rambling blog. One of my to-do’s for the site is to improve the feed. The site uses bbcode for posts and comments, and the feed just dumps the bbcode as text. Besides the obvious downsides of not making images and links live, it also has the potentially dangerous side-effect of interpreting embedded code as live. In other words, if my post contains an example javascript enclosed in script tags, it could execute in your feed reader! Not that I would do that sort of thing…usually.

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-60259 TDavid Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:33:16 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-60259 I use other checkers (filemod) for checking when sites with content older than 60 days are changed. Cron could still work to update as I outlined. My thinking is cron hits a main script and then only the feeds are updated based on the algorithm I described above. This way feeds that only updated once a week aren't polled 24 times a day and perhaps no more than once per day. I realize it's a very small hit, but if every aggregator does that it does start to add up and it's a waste. I'll keep the sourceforge thing in mind, thanks for stopping by :) I use other checkers (filemod) for checking when sites with content older than 60 days are changed.

Cron could still work to update as I outlined. My thinking is cron hits a main script and then only the feeds are updated based on the algorithm I described above. This way feeds that only updated once a week aren’t polled 24 times a day and perhaps no more than once per day. I realize it’s a very small hit, but if every aggregator does that it does start to add up and it’s a waste.

I’ll keep the sourceforge thing in mind, thanks for stopping by :)

]]> By: Michal Migurski http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-60241 Michal Migurski Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:17:27 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-60241 Interesting that one of your criteria for unsubbing from a feed is lack of updates. I've always thought that RSS was a big help in helping me stay on top of sites that update very infrequently, especially when there are a lot of them! I totally agree that an asynchronous, non cron-based update mechanism is needed. This is obviously not possible with Apache & PHP, and we've been targetting Reblog for mere mortals. But recent experiments I've done with Twisted Python suggest that it would be a good environment to use for a feed agent that polls on your behalf, for advanced users. Thanks for the kind & exhaustive comments, don't hesitate to talk in the RB Forum on sourceforge. Interesting that one of your criteria for unsubbing from a feed is lack of updates. I’ve always thought that RSS was a big help in helping me stay on top of sites that update very infrequently, especially when there are a lot of them! I totally agree that an asynchronous, non cron-based update mechanism is needed. This is obviously not possible with Apache & PHP, and we’ve been targetting Reblog for mere mortals. But recent experiments I’ve done with Twisted Python suggest that it would be a good environment to use for a feed agent that polls on your behalf, for advanced users. Thanks for the kind & exhaustive comments, don’t hesitate to talk in the RB Forum on sourceforge.

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-60239 TDavid Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:29:30 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3053/#comment-60239 Nahhh Sterling, you will find that as time goes on you'll get more and more feeds. Some of the feeds aren't blogs but newspapers, search query results, etc. BTW, your blog was one that I wanted to get added (and have now done). Looking forward to reading what you have to say in the coming days :) Nahhh Sterling, you will find that as time goes on you’ll get more and more feeds. Some of the feeds aren’t blogs but newspapers, search query results, etc. BTW, your blog was one that I wanted to get added (and have now done). Looking forward to reading what you have to say in the coming days :)

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