Tag-based Feeds
I realized that's possible to get a feed based on a specific tag. Just use a url with this structure: http://hakki.cornelii.org/tags/<tag>?flav=rss
For example, http://hakki.cornelii.org/tags/meta?flav=rss
is a link to the rss feed for the tag meta
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Too Much Intarblags
For a while I used Sage to read my feeds. It served well enough, but I use several different machines, and none of them would be in sync. I thought about self-hosting, with Planet or similar. To be honest, I'm still thinking about it, in part because of my usual reservations about turning over my stuff to third parties.
It occurs to me that I may just be too paranoid to be 2.0.
Despite that, I decided to give Google Reader a go first. It works well, seamlessly in my browser like you'd expect from a Google product. Unfortunately, it also keeps my apprised of how many things are waiting to be looked at.
This morning, when I checked my feeds when getting up, there were 689 outstanding items. Tonight, as I wrap up my day, there are 813. I doubt I can keep up, but I can't decide what to cut.
I lose at teh internets.
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Three Strikes
I removed my Netflix queue display sidebar item temporarily. Netflix has apparently altered the format of its feeds. Though the parser/translator continued to work, the footprint of the output is bigger than I would like. (Not to mention all the images, geez.)
It'll come back after I've revisited the formatting. This might be the time to look into an XSL tranformation for RSS feeds, to coerce them into the sidebar format, then style them with CSS. Right now, it's all done with hardcoded, feed-specific python code.
This follows the software design rule of threes. I wrote it once for Netflix, then again for last.fm. Now, I have to do it again for Netflix. It's probably time to produce a general feed-to-xhtml solution.
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