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Tue, 15 Nov 2005

Things to Try
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Haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd suggest some things that my loyal reader(s) might want to try:

First off, is bloglines, my RSS reader of choice. I like it for a few reasons:

• It's web-based, which means I have easy access to my reading list from anywhere: work, home, zaurus, parent's house, etc...
• It works for how I read my feeds. I've tried newsgator and even google's new reader, and they just don't seem to fit my style. Newsgator is close, but it just seemed slower than bloglines.
• Easy subscription-adding. I have a 'Sub with Bloglines' button in firefox that sends the page I'm looking at to bloglines which scrapes it for any feed URL's. I'm presented with that list and I can easily subscribe to any RSS-enabled page.

I haven't really used bloglines' other features very much: clipping, blogroll, and blogging a feed entry. I do have some clippings, but I actually haven't looked at them again since saving them.

Next up: del.icio.us tag RSS feeds. I use del.icio.us a lot -- most of my bookmarks are there now, nicely tagged and searchable. But it gets better: del.icio.us has a feature that creates an RSS feed for tags that you're interested. Then, if someone else tags a URL with the tag that your feed is based on, a new RSS entry will be created.

For example, I have an RSS feed for sawfish, my window manager of choice. If some other user of del.icio.us tags a URL with 'sawfish', I'll be notified via bloglines so I can check that site out. It's a great way of finding new sites for things you're interested in.

Next: google maps. I just love 'em, even though I think there are some more powerful mapping sites out there. They've published an API that you can use to generate maps on your website, adding markers just like google does. I haven't played with it yet, but I want to.

Via this web site, I found a link to a Lisp programming style guide by Peter Norvig and Kent Pitman. Interesting reading for any developer, but I especially liked it as a fan of lisp.

That's all I have for now. Give 'em a try!

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