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Thursday, August 05, 2004

The Power of Grouping RSS Feeds.

I've been using my CDB Bloglines site mainly to run a master copy of my regular RSS feeds (keep my home and work computers in synch). But playing with grouping of feeds, I've found some new tricks to play with.

I had just been dumping all feeds into one Bloglines folder, organized alphabetically. I run them on the sidebar of the main entry to CogDogBlog-- yes, "blogrolls" are like, so, 2002, but I have used it myself numerous times to share the URL of a blog I read. And when I visit new blogs, I very much like to scan who they read and it has helped me to uncover new blogs. It was the low tech Friend of a Friend approach.

Anyhow, Bloglines provides a JavaScript cut and paste that puts my current RSS list on the blog page. I had noticed James does something similar, but his generated feed has labeled groups, which is what I found Bloglines does for you know for the different folders you create on the BL site. So I made a few general feed categories.

But the fun stuff came when trying to use this with my desktop RSS reader...

[cogdogblog]
10:03:51 AM      Google It!.

Feed2JS Build and Style Tools.

Back to code.

I modified the download-able version of our Feed2JS to provide local installations the same build and CSS select/modify tools we offer on the main site.

The primary reason is getting it set up on a server in New Zealand for my pending visits there for workshops in November.

This was a fairly quick attempt. If someone who is using the code on their own site can just check out the new build.php, style.php, pages and associated assets, I'd be appreciative.

[cogdogblog]
10:02:09 AM      Google It!.

FCC approves taps on broadband and VoIP. Spooks a step closer to Internet snooping [The Register]
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Company Says It Clones Copy Cats. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two cloned kittens have been born using a new cloning method that may be safer and more efficient than traditional methods, a U.S. company said on Thursday. [Reuters: Science]
7:35:26 AM      Google It!.

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