rss

Feeds To Zero Members Public

Something strange and wonderful has occurred: Those of you familiar with the Mac and NetNewsWire [http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWire/] will know what this screengrab means: for the first time in many long months, I’m finally on top of all my RSS feed subscriptions. I have none unread.

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Adam Tinworth
feeds

RSS of the Beast Members Public

And on a Sunday, too!

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Adam Tinworth
666

Staring Into The RSS Abyss Members Public

Aaaargh. There’s nothing worse that starting to get on top of your RSS backlog [http://adam.vox.com/library/post/climbing-the-rss-mountain.html], when your reader suddenly starts to refresh and you see your count starting to shoot up again. I will get there.

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Adam Tinworth
Atom

What is RSS? Members Public

The residents of Sutton speak:

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Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Calling A Blog A Blog Members Public

Alex Singleton attempts to explain feeds in RSS – why and how on Samizdata.net [http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2007/02/rss_why_and_how.html]. Brave soul. For some reason, the two biggest ideas I struggle to communicate to journalists who start blogging are what RSS feeds are,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Publishing The Topshop Way Members Public

Sign of the times: I discover, via Alice Bachini-Smith [http://www.aliceintexas.com/teatray/?p=496] that Topshop not only allows you to subscribe to fashion update by RSS [http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaticPageDisplay?storeId=12556&catalogId=19551&identifier=ts1%20rss] , it also has

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
fashion

Killing the Photo Print Members Public

I’m sitting in the office, after hours, watching the details of the Steve Jobs keynote over at MacWorld in the US appear on my screen. At the moment, he’s talking about iPhoto, the image management app you get free with your Macs. They’re adding RSS support to

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Adam Tinworth
apple

Get ahead, get a Headline Members Public

A discussion else-blog about the use of aggregators to read blogs got me thinking about headline-writing. It’s something we devote a lot of time and brain-power to in the magazine world. It’s our first and best chance to “sell” the feature to the reader, and so it needs

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Adam Tinworth
aggregation