Comments on: RSS Housecleaning

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:15:51 +0000

I have to agree with Derek UK. I know what the initials stand for, but I certainly don’t need another internet thingy competing for my time.

Roy, congratulations on simplifying your life. I don’t think you’ll miss it.

By: Sean P. Aune

Sean P. Aune — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:21:45 +0000

Thanks for making me finally get off my ass and add Feedburner!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:18:15 +0000

News in general is a BFWOT. How much worker productivity is wasted because of all this RSS crap?

By: w00kie

w00kie — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:01:16 +0000

Roy, if you decide to stick with Feedburner, you should look into their “MyBrand” option which they made free last week after being bought by Google

You just create a CNAME for feed.q-taro.com that points to feeds.feedburner.com and you’ll have all the power of feedburner while keeping your own domain as a front

By: Robbie

Robbie — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:17:58 +0000

Like Blauereiter, I too have used RSS bookmarks in Firefox. I can make folder for tech, art, buds, etc… I need a new solution thou. G-Reader seems good. Can it monitor comments? Some of the Q-taro Nation (I should register that domain) comments are must reads.

By: blauereiter

blauereiter — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:03:00 +0000

I’ve always accessed blogs I read via my bookmarks in Firefox, but recently the list is getting too long and alittle unwieldy, plus I have no idea of knowing if they have been updated recently. Maybe its time to get a RSS reader soon .

By: Derek UK

Derek UK — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:31:01 +0000

If I need specific information I search for it. I don’t even know what RSS means. I guess that means I don’t need it……..

Do you shop everyday and buy magazines that cater for niche subjects that you’ve no interest in?

By: kirai

kirai — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:18:59 +0000

This entry is too long! I’m gonna have to delete q-taro’s feed ;)

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:38:10 +0000

Suguru, yeah chore is the right word. That’s exactly how I was feeling.

Patrick, Google reader worked fine for me. I prefer it to be webbased and not tied to any particular PC. I don’t find it to be that slow. Maybe I’m just used to it. One of the cool features about it is that you can share feed items that are also published as a RSS. This is particularly useful if you are consuming feeds in a news like blog. I noticed the delay in feedburner once I published this post and it didn’t show up in my reader for 15 minutes..I might have to change it back.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:15:49 +0000

I would think that Google Reader’s interface isn’t quite meant for handling hundreds of feeds. I haven’t checked it lately because I quickly gave up on it, so perhaps it changed, but it mainly looked like a “river of news” style of display, which is ok for a few feeds, but not if you need any organization.

I use an application SharpReader (Win) in which all my feeds are categorized neatly. For example I have all my tech news in one folder (with sub-categories), and if one day I feel that I don’t want to catch up with the tech news I’ve missed lately, I just select that category and mark it as “read”.
There’s also no delay such as what happens with Google Reader since all the feed data is actually on Google’s servers. Whenever you click on something, that generates a request.

I have about 200 feeds and I find it alright to deal with.

As for Feedburner, I think it’s crap. It makes your feeds delayed (because the contents are cached at Feedburner), and sometimes I get entries through Feedburner that always keep the “updated” status because they contain a weird character (like an apostrophe pasted from Word or something) and it’s very annoying. That bug could be my reader’s though, but still it only happens if a feed is from Feedburner.

Also, you can get all the stats that you want with decent stats software installed on your own server (theorically, I’ll admit). :)