I use rawdog as my feed reader. It is a simple web based rss reader written in python which uses Mark Pilgrims feedparser. It’s not for everyone but I quite like it.
It also has a number of useful plugins. One in particular I use very heavily is feedgrep. This lets me grep / filter rss feeds so I only read what I want to read. This works especially well with boingboing which as Bernard said recently gets more annoying day by day. There are still some interesting nuggets on bingboing and filtering any posts written by Cory Doctorow or Xeni Jardin makes them much easier to spot and stops me grumbling.
(If you need to ask why I filter boingboing read this - Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack)
Yahoo Pipes launched recently so I decided to put my new flickr mandated Yahoo ID to good use and created boingless. It’s a published version of my personal view point on boingboing, no posts from Cory or Xeni. Enjoy!
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Interesting—pipes.yahoo.com is timing out for me. You’ve slashdotted it! :-)
Eeek. Sorry Yahoo!
If it resurfaces it’s well worth playing with.
It’s one of those things which once you see it you immediately think Wow! that’s so obvious, why didn’t I think of that.
It’s far more elgant then the handful of assorted bits of perl and python I have for scraping and mangling sites.
It makes a refreshing change for most Web 2.0 Ajax sites, which I generally find myself very unimpressed by.
You broked Yahoo!
But at least you did it for a good reason.
I will be using your special feeds, to decoryize and dexenize my boing boing feeds.
Theres only so much proxide blonde tools I can take. And as for Xeni…!
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