FeedLounge: Tagging and Renaming
Two things I’m really, really loving about Feedlounge:
- Tagging feeds. As Dougal notes, you can tag feeds to give you clouds of feeds. He uses the “perl programming” “php programming” example, which really should be accompanied by a sexy little Venn diagram or something. It makes slicing up your feeds from one large monstrosity into smaller chunks easier to handle. Now, filing/categorization is something that desktop feed readers have had for some time, and I reckon that Bloglines has had it as well, but tagging allows stuff to go in multiple widgets. Heck, right now, when a feed breaks, I can tag it “broken” and have Alex and Scott look at it.
- Renaming feeds. I adore this: I read enough feeds [~325 as of this writing, and that number is bound to grow now that I have a better tool!] that I can’t always map a name to a domain name or Weblog title. Now, I can go in there and rename “mezzoblue” to “Dave Shea“. See, because in my mind, these aren’t faceless Weblogs—they’re the thoughts and words and hearts of people out there on the Web. I want to remember those names, and FeedLounge lets me.
Oh, and another thing to love: FeedLounge uses Mark Pilgrim’s feedparser. No more Postel’s Law concerns for me out here in the feed-reading world.
More FeedLounge babble in the coming days, to be sure…
Posted June 11th, 2005 in FeedLounge.
We actually changed the tag on you - it’s now ‘fl-broken’, sorry about that.
June 11th, 2005 at 10:32 pmFunny, I heard some people complaining about feedparser the other day about unresolved issues and a large and getting larger number of bugs that need to be addressed but it hasn’t been updated in forever. I didn’t find any details though.
June 12th, 2005 at 2:29 amFeedLounge development: feed validation
Welcome to the second of a series of posts on the development. If you missed the first one, check it out here: FeedLounge development: the parser.
June 13th, 2005 at 10:47 amThe feed validator
We have feeds being parsed, but we also wanted to help make the world a better pla…
[...] orld a better place by allowing the end user to know whether or not the feed is valid. As Geof rightly points out, we MUST follow Postel’s Law when parsing feed [...]
June 19th, 2005 at 3:31 pm[...] We have feeds being parsed, but we also wanted to help make the world a better place by allowing the end user to know whether or not the feed is valid. As Geof rightly points out, we MUST follow Postel’s Law when parsing feeds (”be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others”). Why not give a quick heads-up to someone that might be able to help fix the problem? So, in FeedLounge, there is a banner near the item content that tells the user the feed is invalid. The user is given a link to click on to see for themselves what is wrong with the feed, using the service from feedvalidator.org. [...]
July 5th, 2005 at 12:00 am