Posts about RSS
Dealing with information overload
How I skim my "high volume" feeds: information overload from Clint Ecker on Vimeo. I've long thought it would be interesting to make a video of how people with tons of feeds skim them and pull out interesting information. This is my "high volume" folder which holds posts from sites which post 10+ more items a day and which I could "mark all as read" and not miss much. When I skim through these posts, this is how I do it. Each post probably gets less than a second to catch my attention. You can definitely see which posts get ...
Posted on: 2008 March 28
Filed under: Internet, Technology
aggregation, aggregators, feeds, googlereader, information, informationoverload, reading, RSS, skimming
Google Reader Team: Let me add a short comment with my shared items
Dear Google Reader team, I love sharing items with my friends on Google Reader, it's one of the best parts of the site. However, I would really like to send along a short message with my shared items. Currently, I'm using Facebook Shared Items to compliment my Google Reader shared items, mostly because I can personalize the message and give my shared item some context. If Google Reader supported something like this, even a Twitter-esque 140 character limit to the comment, I could ditch my Facebook crutch for this sort of thing. That's all, thanks! Clint
Thanks to everyone who's added me on Google Reader
I just wanted to drop a quick line here and thank all the people who added me as a friend on Google Reader. I'm already seeing a lot of cool posts I probably would've never come across normally!
Posted on: 2008 February 03
Filed under: Internet, Social Networking, Technology
RSS organization systems, how about you?
About a month ago I decided to initiate an experiment. I would switch over to Google Reader and reboot my feed reading tactics. I had read posts by Matt Wood and Jason Kottke (who had expanded on Matt's system). I had accumulated a very hodge-podge organization system which had grown quite wooly over the past four years or so. At one point I was reading up to 500 subscriptions daily when I was writing for Ars on a regular basis, and with a poor organization system it was get quite overwhelming. My previous system looked like this: Ars Ars Projects ...
Posted on: 2008 February 03
Filed under: Blogging, Technology
aggregators, feeds, googlereader, lifehacks, organization, RSS, subscriptions
Seeking excellent Google Reader friends
I current have a good set of friends who use Google Reader on a regular basis and I often find myself enjoying the items they share with me. Despite that, I'd love to have even more really smart, interesting people who are sharing good stuff with me. Not to come off like Robert Scoble, but I feel that the more I "surround" myself with smart people pointing out cool things to me, I can only benefit! So, if you're a Google Reader-using, item sharing nut, add me as a friend in Gmail/Gtalk, I'm clintecker@gmail.com
Posted on: 2008 February 02
Filed under: Social Networking, Technology
Facebook Shared Items now in Tumble Log. It was harder than it should've been!
As a point of notification, I've now started to include my Facebook Shared Items in my Tumble Log (how's that for openness!). While it's technically true that I can export all of my shared items from Facebook via a handy RSS feed, it's not nearly that cut & dry. I treat Facebook Shared Items as a sort of social bookmarking service. I have a bookmarklet in my browser's toolbar and when I run across a site I enjoy, I stab it, enter any thoughts of my own and click submit. Facebook tries to extract an image from the page as ...
Posted on: 2008 January 05
Filed under: Internet, Social Networking, Technology
dataportability, export, facebook, feed, import, RSS, socialgraph, socialnetworking, syndication
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