RSS & you

It's sort of like Yahoo!'s news page, but customizable. (And my.yahoo.com offers a free RSS reader.)

this way you open up all the feeds at once and can conveniently browse through all the websites you usually look at more efficiently.

it's kind of hard to explain until you start using them often.

Most blogs do have an rss feed, whether or not it's included as a link on the front page. All the major blog software folks provide for them.

I couldn't get the RSS feed of my Netflix queue to work. Frowny emoticon!

Teeny, doesn't Blogspot only provide RSS for "pro" users?

You can use Atom on Blogspot.

The ILX new answers RSS feed makes the site much easier to keep tabs on. Flickr (a community photo website) rss feeds are also really great.

It's the future people!

What feeds are ILXors reading these days?

Finally abandoned my crappy Sage reader and went with the Goog, am getting subscription happy.

bump

What feeds are ILXors reading these days?

Tons. I use RSS -- via BLOGLINES -- to keep up with news and politics. Among the RSS feeds I read are:

Matthew Yglesias' Blog (the Atlantic)
Talking Points Memo (Josh Marshall's site)
Obsidian Wings (for a contributing poster named Plubius)
NYT Most Emailed Articles
NYT Book Review
NYT Arts Roundup
Slate Magazine
Pitchfork Daily Record Reviews
Stylus Daily Record Reviews
Popmatters Daily Record Reviews
Said The Gramophone
Stereogum
Fluxblog
Music For Robots
Philip Sherburne's blog
Coalition Casualty Count News (which reprints stories regarding Iraq)
Miami Herald's Top Stories

I just noticed RSS suddenly works on my blog. I don't use it though.

I use NetNewsWire w/the NewsGator syncing.

I read blogs via RSS almost exclusively, so if someone doesn't have a RSS feed then as far as I'm concerned they don't exist.

What do you read, Elvis?

Revive.

What good feeds is everyone subscribed to these days?

*are

APOD, mashable invites, actionbutton.net, shoryuken, the elusive quetzal, the escapist, perry bible fellowship, tv blog, xkcd, insertcredit.com, bbc world news, cbc canadian news, cbc montreal news, mashable, a couple hockey and a couple soccer ones.

i wonder if achewood has one... i need to catch up on that. i haven't read in almost a year! (since my comptuer exploded and i forgot to keep visiting it daily)

Achewood feed: http://www.achewood.com/rss.php

I really don't need RSS at work, but would it be a waste to have Automator print a bunch of feeds out in the morning so I don't have to read the goddamn free newspaper on the train?

i think that would be a massive waste of ink/toner/what have you, but free newspapers are pants anyway. why don't you just read rss at work?

What good feeds is everyone subscribed to these days?

What are you looking for? I'm subscribed to a couple hundred.

elvis telecom = the dj martian of rss

514 subscriptions and all of them bullshit

yay internet

actually no dinosaur comics is cool, i'll stand by that

Mutant Sounds and Kiwitapes are pretty goddamn essential.

I don't read RSS at work because I'm better at just skimming 150 websites at work. plus it is more fun if I forget to visit one for a few days and then there is new stuff

I did a little paring down today. Here's my general interest/politics/humor stuff (doesn't include the Buddhist, hip-hop, "friend's blogs" stuff):

Accelerating Future
Achenblog
Beyond the Beyond (Bruce Sterling's blog)
CJR
Compiler
Crooks and Liars
Feral Scholar
/Film
Future Cave Paintings
Global Guerrillas
Hit & Run (Reason)
indietits
Informed Comment
lifehack.org
Listening Post
Matthew Yglesias
MUTANT SOUNDS
NYer - Comment
Orcinus
passiveaggressivenotes.com
Politics in the Zeros
Questionable Content
Slate
Smart Mobs
StartSnitching
Talking Points Memo
The Assimilated Negro
The Daily Dish
The Underwire
TIME: Swampland
whiskey river
xkcd.com
zentronix

Um, could someone a) explain how to setup a RSS feed (what program etc) and b) suggest which program I could use that would be a pop up on my desktop or browser if possible.

Thanks in advance,

luddite

I won't subscribe to any website that does't offer full entry feeds.

I want everything to be syndicated into one place for me. I hate dealing with horrible UI while navigating websites.

So what feeder do I use, how do I set it up and how do I make it standalone on desktop?

The secret to RSS is not to use it for anything that's updated often. RSSing say, the New York Times, is an absolute waste. Keeping up on a friend's blog or a sporadically-published comic, tho, is perfect for RSS. Otherwise, just make a goddamned toolbar bookmark.

The point at which RSS becomes an obligation -- read my 500 new entries NOW or give up on the whole enterprise -- is the point at which it's useless.

RSS is also good for reformatting ugly color/text combinations. Your blue-on-black blog is unreadable by my mole-like eyes unless I can transform it into something visible.

on the other hand though, isn't it a bit of a shame when you never get to see a well designed blog that someone's taken a lot of time out to make? there's convenience and then there's living in a grabby little bubble. i can sympathise with partial entry feed types.

RSS is also good for reformatting ugly color/text combinations. Your blue-on-black blog is unreadable by my mole-like eyes unless I can transform it into something visible.
Yeh, I'm big on this. Shitty blog design with google ads everywhere? Hello RSS.

The point at which RSS becomes an obligation -- read my 500 new entries NOW or give up on the whole enterprise -- is the point at which it's useless.

-- libcrypt, Friday, September 28, 2007 3:36 PM

If my Google Reader is at 500+, I tend to go to "List View" and scan the headlines/titles. Email myself the "Look @ Later" in-depth stuff, Star the "Blog About This Later" stuff, and "Mark All As Read" for the rest.

It gives me a fresh place to start from.

on the other hand though, isn't it a bit of a shame when you never get to see a well designed blog that someone's taken a lot of time out to make?

Which is why I like NetNewsWire, you can enable a thumbnail snapshot of the source website - much like how iTunes displays album covers.

Right, google reader seems to be the best for me. I would love to have it standalone if possible. Very simple though and great use. A+++ would use again etc etc

if i've understood what u mean by stnadalone correctly you might wanna try google gears out, it's still in beta tho

El Tomboto OTM!

if anyone cares though, here's an RSS feed for my intl. news blog:

http://tracerhand.wordpress.com/feed/

So three weeks ago I started using Google Reader. Over time I've tried using freestanding feedreeders, like the one built into Thunderbird, but that felt like newsgroups or something and just didn't take off.

Now... holy smokes! I finally get it. Instead of checking in on however many dozens of sites over and over looking for updates, I just leave a Google Reader tab open and ignore it until there's a couple dozen new posts to read. I can scroll through everything in one place, just scanning headlines and skimming text, and my bookmarks sidebar stays closed and out of the way. My wasteful browsing time is down, to the point that I'm hunting new feeds and tearing through Google Reader's "Discover" recommendations. Sweet.

From your 56 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 4,621 items

Gross... course I didn't really read every word of all of those. Most of that is just looking at pictures from ffffound and the like.

Anybody understand RSS tags for podcasting? I can't get the artist, album, and track name of the mp3s from my podcast to show up in iTunes (or other players). When I download or stream, it only displays the file name.

Let's see if this will post.

like so. first all the header and general info stuff:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"; version="2.0">
	<channel>

	

		<title>my podcast</title>

		<description>Because there's too much of me to not go around.</description>

		<link>http://your_website.com<;/link>

		<language>en-us</language>

		<lastBuildDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2006 12:00:00 -0600</lastBuildDate>

		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2006 12:00:00 -0600</pubDate>

		<docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss<;/docs>

		<webMaster>your_email@your_website.com</webMaster>
<itunes:author>your name or preferred nom de guerre</itunes:author>

    <itunes:subtitle>Because there's too much of me to not go around. 

</itunes:subtitle>

    <itunes:summary>

</itunes:summary>
    <itunes:owner>

           <itunes:name>your name</itunes:name>

           <itunes:email>your_email@your_website.com</itunes:email>

    </itunes:owner>
<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
<itunes:image href="http://your_website.com/path_to_image_for_the_cover_art";/>

   

<itunes:category text="Music">

     <itunes:category text="Podcasting"/>

</itunes:category>
		

		<item>

			<title>Michael Jackson - Rock With You</title>

			<link>http://your_website.com/path_to_audio_file.mp3<;/link>

			<description>OMG! I just heard this song for the first time! So excited you guys!</description>

			<guid>http://your_website.com/path_to_audio_file.mp3 

</guid>

			<enclosure url="http://your_website.com/path_to_audio_file.mp3"; (once more with feeling) length="3704341" 

 type="audio/mpeg"/>

			<category>Podcasts</category>

			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2006 12:00:00 -0600 

</pubDate>
<itunes:author>your name</itunes:author>

<itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>

<itunes:subtitle>OMG! I just heard this song for the first time! So excited you guys! 

</itunes:subtitle>

<itunes:summary>

</itunes:summary>

<itunes:duration>00:02:32 

</itunes:duration>

<itunes:keywords>you, podcast, podcasting, podcaster, music, Michael Jackson, funk, soul, dance, songs_about_fucking</itunes:keywords>
		</item>
	

	</channel>
</rss>	

(obv "once more with feeling" should not be in code tags, whoops)

This is one of my favorite ones:
http://jahjahsphinx.blogspot.com/

ok I officially passed the tipping point a while ago where I need RSS at work and I grudgingly set up all my live bookmarks today. It's the end of the world.

I don't really understand it, but apparently this is big news. Like the Twitter equivalent of Cyberdyne Systems turning on Skynet, or something.

If NetNewsWire actually implements this I might actually upgrade to the new version... actually I'm surprised this standard has been around for 8 years, didn't even know a distinct push architecture existed for RSS.

I'd imagine the developers of NNW, Feeddemon, Google Reader and all the rest will be working on this very soon.

I'm kind of curious how this will work, and if/how it won't add massive overhead to webservers to push to readers, especially local clients. With a single centralized server like Google it's relatively easy to just tell Google once, and Google pushes it to all their users, but how will it work otherwise? And even with say, Wordpress pushing out updates to only the major online newsreader sites, that's still a lot of new data to be pushed, I would think. If this is already setup in the spec, someone explain it to me...

real-time is fine for things like throwaway tweets u can read in 2 secs; but for blogs? don't see the overwhelming benefit over polling every 15/30 mins

new google rss blows. i've never complained about a facebook redesign but this rss redesign has gone from intuitive and easy to super annoying.

my biggest problem with the redesign is that the <all> tab used to be above the fold so if i scrolled down to click on a specific blog, i could jump back to a general overview by hitting <all>. now it's below the fold and so when i scroll down it disappears :'(

http://i47.tinypic.com/2v277n6.jpg

The way Firefox handles RSS feeds, as folders full of links to the constantly updating list of stories, is perfect for me. In almost every other respect, I've started to loathe Firefox. Is there ANY way to get Safari or Chrome to do this, either via a setting I haven't figured out or a plug-in or extension?

argh

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/13/4101144/google-shuts-down-reader-rss-aggregation-service

glad i switched over to reeder

Reeder is the reason I'm so bummed about this- it syncs through google reader!