The perfect RSS reader aggregator
Posted on May 3rd, 2006 in Technology
I’ve been on the hunt for the perfect RSS reader or aggregator without much luck. I’ve downloaded lots, installed many and uninstalled all.
Here are my specifications. Let me know if something matches it.
- Client PC not web-based. I need speed to scan many feeds. Bloglines and the like are great but not fast enough.
- Windows (other operating systems a bonus). I’ve temporarily moved back to Windows XP so I’m stuck. I’d like whatever I chose to be cross platform for when I go back to SuSE Linux.
- River of News or display by date. I’d like to see today’s posts first across each group of feeds. That way if I miss a week I don’t have to wade through last weeks news from feed 1 to get to today’s news from feed 2.
Backup your blog
Posted on April 19th, 2006 in Technology
Frequently Asked Questions over at WordPress.com has a brilliant piece on backups for bloggers.
Several years ago I had to reconstruct WealthEsteem.org after catastrophic hardware failure. Luckily Google had begun indexing it so I didn’t lose any posts. But rebuilding the comments proved too hard.
Matt and his team offer the brilliant advice of subscribing to the RSS feeds of your own site as a way of maintaining backups. Subscribe both the posts and the comments feed via either a web- or desktop-based aggregator. I already subscribe to my blogs to keep an eye on how it looks to my syndicated readers, now I have another reason.
Thanks for this brilliant but overlooked tip.
