Switching to Feedburner
August 29, 2007

With the latest re-organization of my domains, I'm going ahead and switching my RSS feeds over to feedburner. Why? For one, it's easier to manage. I don't have to worry about making sure that all of my old feeds stay in sync with new changes, I just update in one central location. For two, it gives me easier tracking. Right now I really have no idea how many of you view my blog using RSS.

So, if you're currently subscribed to any of my old feeds - please do yourself a favor and subscribe to my feedburner feed. Hopefully everything should stay in place and remain pretty stable for now.

Onyxraven pointed out that I needed to do some work on my RSS feeds, and rightly so. I've added image support and cleaned up the formatting a lot. I hope that these changes are working out nicely for you guys! Pop on over to the comments section for this post and let me know!

Improved RSS
October 30, 2006

So, I finally got around to improving the RSS Feed. I realized that I've been yammering on and on about it - and wasn't even subscribed to my own feed. Oi!

On a slightly related note; I've noticed a few hits coming from Blackberry.com. Could it be that someone I know is subscribed to my site with their Blackberry? Is that person subscribed with the RSS feed - or does Blackberry offer some sort of "update notification" thing? ;p

Google Reader; RSS At It's Finest
October 19, 2006

I've floundered around this great web for quite some time, and have a large wealth of sites that I visit regularly. For the last year or so I've been playing around with lots of different RSS clients and came to one earth shattering conclusion I hated them. I've hated them on two levels; looks and functionality.

I'm an aesthetic person, I'm sure you already knew that. I like things to look neat, clean and attractive - or I don't really care to view the information presented. It's pretty simple. All of the RSS readers that I had tried either had terrible design or made the articles look completely wrong.

The second point, functionality is something that's a specific flaw in my usage patterns. Most people use one computer all the time. Me? I used somewhere around five or six in the course of a day. Keeping that many computers' RSS feed lists synced was a pain in the ass -and I always ended up missing out on some great news.

Here's where Google Reader comes in. First off, it's a great looking program. Now, it's not all fancy looking with lots of blinking widgets - it's simple, clean and attractive. It's everything that I like. Where it really shines though is the functionality. The main interface is surprisingly slick - displaying a listing of all of the new articles posted since your last read. As you scroll down and mouse over each of them - they're marked as read. Cool! My favorite feature though, is ability to only list updated feeds. So, if you've got a list with 20 or so infrequently updated feeds - you're not inundated with all of them unless they've actually been updated.

If you combine Google Reader with the Google Reader Subscribe Button recently linked to on LifeHacker - you'll be in heaven as you browse the web and have one click feed additions.