Sunday, October 19th, 2008
For the past few weeks, my RSS reader (Bloglines) has not been behaving. Now comes a post on Techncrunch that the founder of Bloglines is considering switching to Google Reader. I started exploring Google Reader to see if it would fit my needs (notice the new feed on the sidebar). ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Bloglines, a web based reader, just came up with a proposal to restrict RSS feeds:
http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0
The W3C has a similar (in spirit) proposal to use "?access-control?" instructions in XML standard itself. It restricts access by domain. This idea was also mentioned before by Greg Reinacker.
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
The BlogLines service has been going up and down the entire day. According to their official website (currently off-line) both database machines crashed this morning. Still waiting for them to come back to life it seems...
As a side note, it is interesting to note how much we have come to ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
Since 9 AM EST, I haven't been seeing any updated RSS feeds through Bloglines. However, their site and the blogroll services seem to be working. No clue what's going on - but if they are really having problems, it would be VERY NICE to let the world know. Of course ...
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Sunday, May 15th, 2005
Google Alerts to monitor the news or even Google search for certain terms and return results via email. However, they currently do not offer RSS or Atom feeds. Fortunatly, Bloglines has an email accounts feature which lets you monitor email lists in Bloglines. This is perfect for Google Alerts - ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
BlogLines, a very popular web-based RSS aggregator is adding support for package tracking according to this story. Who knows, maybe they were inspired by my XML.com article or the track2rss project.
P.S. I do wonder how they got around the legal issues, most carriers severely restrict the use of their package ...
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
Like many others, I use Bloglines RSS Reader to both read RSS feeds and provide a blogroll for my blog. Well, the mobile version is now having errors, with seemingly someone forgetting to close a tag:
An error occured:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "cgi.c", line 1391, in cgi_display()
File "csparse.c", line 291, in cs_parse_file()
File ...
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
Recently I ran across a mention of an certain blog that was maliciously hacked into and erased, with the personal information of the original author in its place. This specific blog which shall remain unnamed happened to be criticizing a certain organization, which did not make it popular with its ...
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