My RSS subscriptions

by Brian Enigma on September 18, 2009 7:30pm

in Dear Diary,Links

I got into a lunchtime dis­cus­sion of RSS today.  Appar­ently, one of my cowork­ers (hi, Helen!) had never really heard of RSS before.  As we explained the con­cept to her, we started to share some of our favorite news sites, blogs, and other things with RSS feeds.

I decided this might be of inter­est to a larger audi­ence, espe­cially with Word­Camp this week­end, so decided to post an abridged list of my sub­scrip­tions here.  Notably miss­ing are:

  • project feeds I’m mon­i­tor­ing (e.g. soft­ware releases on Google Code)
  • a lot of “in-game” web­sites related to ARGs
  • var­i­ous threads/sections in mes­sage boards (e.g. Unfiction)
  • blog com­ment feeds (many are the same as the blogs)
  • feeds for Wikis and other sorts of projects I admin­is­ter (to keep an eye open for spam, etc.)

The trimmed-down list is as fol­lows.  The cat­e­gories are extremely rough, as many sites could fall into sev­eral dif­fer­ent group­ings; the exact place­ment of a site merely reflects my whim on the day I added it.  With the things toward the bot­tom of the list (espe­cially Digg and the cat­e­gories marked as “Ver­bose”), I will skim the head­lines if I have time but, more often than not, I will just mark every­thing as hav­ing been read with­out look­ing through it.  Feel free to share feeds that I may be miss­ing out on in the com­ments, via Twit­ter, or through email.

Tech

Apple

Port­land

Blogs-People

Blogs-Info

Pro­duc­tiv­ity

Steam­punk

Web Comics

Digg

Digg-Custom

Ver­bose

Blogs-Verbose

Twit­ter

For­Sale

For those that are inter­ested, the list was gen­er­ated by export­ing my feeds from Google Reader (as an OPML file), then pro­cess­ing with this hastily-thrown-together XSL transform:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
 <html><head><title>Subscribed Podcasts</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <ul>
 <xsl:apply-templates select="opml/body"/>
 </ul>
 </body></html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="outline">
 <xsl:if test="string-length(@htmlUrl) > 0">
 <li><a href="{@htmlUrl}"><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></a></li>
 </xsl:if>
 <xsl:if test="string-length(@htmlUrl) = 0">
 <li><h2><xsl:value-of select="@title" /></h2></li>
 </xsl:if>
 <xsl:if test="./outline">
 <ul><xsl:apply-templates select="./outline"/></ul>
 </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • Reddit
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Technorati

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Tagged as: feeds, googlereader, reader, rss

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Helen September 18, 2009 at 9:54 pm

Yay! Just added netninja to my iGoogle! Now to add a few more of my favorite sites!

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2 Brian Enigma September 19, 2009 at 9:27 am

Just one tip: don’t overload yourself with subscriptions at first. Start with just a few feeds and grow from there. It’s *so* much easier to ramp up to keeping up with your feeds that way.

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