Tag: feeds

Ryan Has El ノート, Blog Lensing

Posted by Ryan A - September 21, 08

How many of bloggers read other blogs in abundance, totali I know? I’m not sure where “reading other blogs more than writing your own” stands in the sphere, but I don’t find it negative, other than being extremely time-consuming.

Presumably, most who do are of the nu-school bloggers or writers of highly-meta blogs, such as the infamous アニ・ノート. While some of the big names (RC, Memento, Hop Step Jump!) may read here and there, I don’t think they have a large feed list (do they read their blogroll?).

Get Meta, with Google Reader

The great thing about アニ・ノート is that it acts as a [meta] filter for the otakuken. By paying attention to Author’s posts, a wide variety of the community is put into context, and much of the hassle about checking the reader for articles is taken away. Still, Author is one man, and the variety keeps growing.

I surely do not know the weight of Google Reader, it seems fine, but I definitely prefer software applications [opposed to cloud]. What interests me is the noting portal、or clippings; yes this is similar to Google Notebook, but more applicable for what I’m aiming at. For the bloggers who read blogs, it’s time for Notes.

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This is Space Meta

What Google Reader enables one to do is make noise notes on entries, cut up the entries, and share them into a public feed. O_O! Think about that, reading and noting (not blogging). If there was a group of 5-10 people, each subscribed to 50 feeds, with 20% overlap, they can cover anywhere from 200-400 feeds. Mixing in the notes, if one were to subscribe to their note feeds, how much ground would they be covering, or filtering?

This is a meta-step back from commenting, I think that’s important, because a comment is a conversation within the context, and a note is more like a reflection about the context. In the case of finding what [and possibly more important] to read, with less effort, the outer-context is much more useful.

Implementation

Being feed crazy on Aloe, Dream, I decided to pin my own note-feed to things. Hopefully, those who read blogs may start noting as well, because I’d really like to see how condensed the information and variety can get.

In Reading Feeds

Posted by Ryan A - April 3, 08

lolisearch

bluemist posted about reading feeds not too long ago, and I commented about using RSSOwl. The feature bluemist is looking for is simple, Search Folders on feed groups, which could be done on the server level; Animeblogger Antenna, but it is much simpler to do this on the client, where they are going to aggregate the feeds anyway.

I wasn’t positive of this feature in RSSOwl, but it is there, and highly customizable; highly (I searched for loli within specific folders, and found 12 results). To my disbelief, RSSOwl also now includes a feature which it lacked for so long, and which I stated was a drawback on bluemist’s blog, and that was item retention. RSSOwl does retain feeds! It does! I found this out while playing with Miletstone 8; I believe this was included in all milestone versions. So there is no need to worry about losing articles waiting to be read.

vs Liferea

Liferea is a lightweight, GTK+ reader that accomplishes these things will much greater simplicity than RSSOwl. Though I have literally just installed it, it seems very dependable and similar to the simplicity of SharpReader. Even though the search folders option of Liferea is not as extensive, I believe it would do the above job perfectly. At this time, the only drawback is that a Windows install may not be streamlined.

Until Liferea is confirmed for builds on Windows, I will maintain my suggestion of RSSOwl, as I test Liferea.

Ryan A