HTTP defines the 301 Moved Permanently response. Does this work for feeds? I think it should. Often I’ll see a post to the effect of, “we’re moving here, update your RSS readers now.”
I’m lazy. I’d like my RSS reader to do this automatically for me.
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Lots of people are criticizing the new Dilbert site for its gratuitous use of flash and generally over-engineered nature.
I won’t comment on those subjects, but I would like to point out that there is now an official RSS feed (in color, no less). That’s an improvement in my book.
From the “it’s-about-frickin-time” department, Google Reader finally has a search box. Better late than never.
Here’s the problem: I read about 100 blogs and generally end up reading the same story more than once. It’s like some kind of bizarre internet echo. Many bloggers merely link to another’s article, sometimes without so much as adding their $0.02. Sometimes I wonder, “Did I already read this? Is this just deja vu? Am I going insane?”
I want an aggregator which digs down a few levels of indirection and attempts to identify the primary source for some story. This would be the root of a whole tree of links. Then, merely show me this “uberpost” and give me an easy way to de-prioritize the others.
If I have this problem with 100 blogs, just imagine what Scoble has to deal with — he reads over 600: Lifehacker, Hackszine, Four-Hour Workweek (this is the primary source…case in point)
Who will build this first?
Update: Upon reflection, I think the real problem is the sense of deja-vu. I might be satisfied with a feed reader which simply restores my confidence in my own sanity. So maybe just give me a view that shows the related posts together. Or perhaps, just give me a UI indication “Links to primary source (Read Tuesday at 9:22 AM)”
Christopher Soghoian is being questioned by the FBI right now. I don’t suppose they are there to thank him for his research. Read his blog for details.
Google has overhauled their AJAX-powered web RSS reader. It’s, like, wicked awesome dood. If you hated the old one, give it another shot.
They even addressed my previous request for a mark all read feature (hint: it’s shift-a).
Update:
Gone are the days of agonizing over a sentence who’s only raison d’être is to contain a single link. See that shared section in the side bar? From now on, I’ll save the blog articles for those rare instances in which I have something to add.
Mark++ was created a year-and-a-month ago, on April 1st 2005. In observance of this special occasion, I present some stats:
- I’ve made a total of 141 postings (an average of 2.5 per week)
- There have been 125 comments (although many were my own)
- I’ve had a total of 4708 unique visitors, with something on the order of 400 unique visitors per day
- The top search string leading people here is cnn video linux. Are you listening CNN?
- The second and third most popular search strings are tabs illegal and hdcp free
- Most people view Mark++ with Internet Explorer, with Firefox in 2nd place
- Most viewers are running (or at least, claiming to run) some flavor of Windows. 2nd place goes to Mac OS X, with Linux a distant third
- Most of my readers are from the US or Canada, but I’ve received hits from Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Australia, Korea, Sweden, France, China, Greece, Israel, India, Russia, Italy, Turkey, Finland, Belgium, Nicaragua, Poland, Romania, Colombia, Lithuania, Brazil, Ukraine, Argentina, Switzerland, Mexico, Austria, and New Zealand
So, Happy Birthday Mark++. A bit belated, but better late than never, eh?
(Most of the stats above were generated with the excellent Short Stat plug in for WordPress)
Technorati beware, Google Blog Search has launched.
If you search for “craptimizing”, I’m the only hit.
A little over a year ago I started actively reading blogs. Today I read something like 30 of them. Interestingly, this has almost completely obsoleted Slashdot for me. I rarely see a Slashdot post that I haven’t already read.
Update:
Blogs have also obsoleted mailing lists. I just unsubbed from the very excellent Crypto-Gram newsletter, because it’s much easier to digest in bite-sized chunks.
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