Alun Salt: Build your own web aggregator the easy way
BeachBum
· 2 years ago
I use BlogLines as my RSS reader and I wrote a custom RSS reader to pull just the info I want from Technorati.
Great post.
BeachBum
AJ Cann
· 2 years ago
Google Reader - love it or hate it (the latter for mee too). OTOH, I love Bloglines.
AJ Cann
· 2 years ago
Oh, and another thing - if you aggregate your feeds with Yahoo Pipes, I'm pretty sure you can edit and trim the entries however you want.
Alun
· 2 years ago
I haven't tried Bloglines in ages. I should take another look.
You can use Pipes, but the output didn't work well with Tumblr when I tried it. That can be fixed by passing the output through Feedburner - but for 150 or so feeds gets tedious. I had a go at a simple PHP script to write truncated feeds, but Tumblr didn't like the output from that either.
I suppose I could periodically update the feeds at the rate of one or two a day.
heather
· 2 years ago
Good post and thanks for the credit (not that whydontyou can claim to have originated this idea)
It sounds like it could be a good resource.
TW
· 2 years ago
Excellent post and great idea - Unseen treasures makes for some fascinating reading.
All Comments
Great post.
BeachBum
OTOH, I love Bloglines.
You can use Pipes, but the output didn't work well with Tumblr when I tried it. That can be fixed by passing the output through Feedburner - but for 150 or so feeds gets tedious. I had a go at a simple PHP script to write truncated feeds, but Tumblr didn't like the output from that either.
I suppose I could periodically update the feeds at the rate of one or two a day.
It sounds like it could be a good resource.