Google Reader has been a useful tool for following site feeds (RSS or Atom) since it was first released, but not every web site has a feed. In other words, Reader has bee great for getting updates on blogs, forums and most news sites, it hasn’t been useful at all with static sites or sites
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Take a look at “Beyond Web Logs” (http://www.beyondweblogs.com/). That site is just littered with old posts of mine — and hotlinked images. For instance: http://www.beyondweblogs.com/post/A-very-quick-look-at-Mabber.aspx Now, my Creative Commons license does indeed allow re-use of my content — but that content must be properly attributed! I hate this kind of outright theft. Neither my name nor Rich asks, in a recent comment, what happened to my feed. Good question! Turns out I cleaned out an old .htaccess file a couple weeks ago and dumped some redirects that I didn’t think were used any longer. So, if you’re using a feed that has “blogX” somewhere in it, time to update — just click I’ve been effectively offline since last Wednesday night. Since then, until a few hours ago, I spent about 5 minutes checking work email (once on Friday and Saturday morning) and about another 5 minutes filtering my personal email Saturday. I can’t even guess how long it has been since I traveled without a I’d not really paid attention to this until recently, but Google Reader has a “Shared Items” feature that could be very interesting to play with. The idea here is that as a Google Reader user is reading their feeds, they can opt to mark articles that might be interesting to others. The shared |
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