#FF00AA

29 apr. 2004

Did I tell you I felt like playing around on my computer with some toys? Once again I did a roundup of all RSS aggregators, found a new one that’s quite alright (doesn’t crash, reads pretty much all formats, is well put together, knows how to group articles from all blogs and display them in reverse chronological order, etc. — uh, no, actually, it does crash, but not too hard), spent some time adding fifty RSSs to it, and… came back to the same conclusion as always: it’s useless, because a blog is meant to be read in its original layout. Even when the layout is ugly and not personalized, it’s still part of the blog, and the author almost always takes it into account in the way he writes. And, as for being notified within the hour of someone posting… either I’m bored and I’m already browsing all blogs myself every 30 minutes (even when they’re not updated, there can be new comments, which are almost never RSSed), or I’m busy and it can wait.

Case closed, once again.

P.S. Case reopened: I should find a web-based aggregator, from which I could fetch the results and convert them into WML, so I could read blogs on my phone when I’m bored in the subway. Because Google’s gateway is convenient, but it isn’t quite practical.

2004/04/29 - 20:47

Want to know when I post new content to my blog? It's a simple as registering for free to an RSS aggregator (Feedly, NewsBlur, Inoreader, …) and adding www.ff00aa.com to your feeds (or www.garoo.net if you want to subscribe to all my topics). We don't need newsletters, and we don't need Twitter; RSS still exists.

Katioucha, 8 years ago:

Entièrement d'accord sur le fait que le Layout influe sur la manière d'écrire (et Dieu c'est que c'est vrai chez moi en ce moment...). Bravo inspecteur Garoo !
A présent votre mission si vous l'acceptez est de trouver un travail et un logement en moins d'un mois.

m@nu, 8 years ago:

Wééé rien à voir je sais, sspa cool et ça va jarter, mais juste pour dire que demain c'est le 1er maiiii et pis si garoo ne fait pas la fête du travail et ben yora un nouveau pidiblogueur :)) kwel

Fred, 8 years ago:

Si tu veux un aggrégateur RSS en ligne, je conseille fortement Planet qui est utilisé par tout un tas de site d'aggrégations autour des logiciels libres (par exemple Planet GNOME) ainsi que pour des aggrégateurs personnels (par exemple le mien). Et pour ne rien gacher, c'est écrit en python et très simple à modifier.

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