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Right, RSS is great for low volume stuff that you don't want to miss. I do have a way of using it productively with high-volume sites. Specifically, I read so
by tfinniga 14y ago
Right, RSS is great for low volume stuff that you don't want to miss.
I do have a way of using it productively with high-volume sites. Specifically, I read some of reddit via RSS. Sometimes I go deep into a project, and avoid distractions for quite a while. At the same time, I don't want to miss out on the zeitgeist. So I set up an RSS feed that takes the top n items over a certain period - for example, the top 3 weekly stories from proggit.
Then when I'm done the project I can go back and see what important items from the group discussion I've missed. Basically just turn a constant stream into a small amount of the best content that I don't want to miss.
- jrkelly 14y ago> So I set up an RSS feed that takes the top n items over a certain period Oh, I really like that idea. how do you set up that feed?
- tfinniga 14y agoReddit already produces the top items feeds, so that's easy. For example, the weekly top proggit feed is http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/top/.rss?sort=top&t=week http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/top/.rss?sort=top&t=... You just add .rss to the url you get when browsing, before the args. Then I used yahoo pipes to extract the top 3 items from that feed. I take the output of the yahoo pipe as input for my RSS reader, which collapses duplicates. I used google reader, so I didn't even need to open up my RSS reader for the top items to accumulate. Here's the URL of the top 2 daily proggit posts: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ee7c0181150e421faa779b218d366f04 http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ee7c0181150e421fa...
- jrkelly 14y agoAwesome, thanks.