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August 9, 2007

A quick note to publicize my Google Reader Shared Items feed URL: http://feeds.justagwailo.com/justagwailo/shared. It uses FeedBurner and its MyBrand service which lets you use your a subdomain of your own domain for feeds. (It's a little weird that you have to email to sign up, since it should be an automatic process where you click a button then set your DNS to point to feeds.feedburner.com, but at least, as which Rogers Cadenhead correctly argues, it prevents lock-in to the FeedBurner service.) Right now it's only my shared items directly from Google Reader. I'd like in the future for it to include my 'dugg' items at Digg, my Flickr and YouTube 'favorite' photos and videos, respectively, and if there was a feed for it, my MetaFilter and Ask MetaFilter 'favorite' posts and comments. Just Google Reader items for now, though, as it's the easiest to setup while letting me add to it later.

Please let me know if you have feedback on the shared items. Too much of one thing and not enough of another? I subscribe to about a hundred feeds, which isn't close to those whose shared items I subscribe to. If I have comments about an article, I'll either socially bookmark it or blog about it, but at least this is a low-threshold way to say "this is interesting for some reason" without giving that reason.

tags: Digg, FeedBurner, Flickr, Google Reader, MetaFilter, YouTube

RSS for all threads on the MetaFilter network →

Not being able to follow comments to individual posts without visiting the HTML page was the thing that discouraged me from participating there. Now I might actually rejoin MeFi.

tags: MetaFilter, RSS | # | comment Jul. 27th, 2007

Fake DJ sets, Weekly Recaps of the Internet, and Language Learning

March 28, 2007

After buying my second iPod, a svelte nano, I subscribed to some podcasts, unsubscribed from others, which I listen to while commuting from place to place. (And while ironing.) Here are the podcasts I'm listening to these days:

  • Dave Thorvald's Canucks Outsider podcast [podcast feed]. Recaps of recent games and analysis of the local hockey squadron.
  • ChinesePod Intermediate [podcast feed]
  • My Daily Phrase German: I'm finally trying to learn, after working with at least 3 German-speakers. The only phrase I remember, though, is Schluß fur heute, which means "that's all for today". That's the only phrase that's consistently repeated throughout the episodes. Found this one through the iTunes podcast directory, which you can subscribe to directly.
  • KEXP's Music That Matters and Sonarchy Radio [podcast feed] podcasts. The SXSW MTM episode, which introduced new bands that played at the music festival, was a particularly good one. I find Radio Sonarchy challenging, but after listening to field recordings of electroaccoustic soundscapes and sound sculptures, I feel better attuned to the aural beauty and ugliness that surrounds us on a daily basis.
  • Serious DJs, if only it worked properly in iTunes. I subscribe to it normally in ye olde aggregator.
  • vanmega.com's faux-podcast [podcast feed]
  • Deftone Fake DJ [podcast feed]
  • The MetaFilter Best of the Web Podcast [podcast feed]. I don't even participate in MeFi, Ask MetaFilter or MetaTalk anymore, but this is a good weekly recap of the stuff on the web that I would normally be interested in.
  • Fresh Lime Soda [podcast feed], by Suw Charman and Stephanie Booth. I know both through the #joiito channel, and like the MetaFilter podcast, they recap another part of the Web I'm interested, specifically social software.

These days I'm wearing headphones more often, trying to listen to Fake DJ sets, weekly recaps of the Internet, and language learning, so I apologize if I'm not paying attention to you. If people don't support this podcasting thing, it might not make it.

tags: Chinese, Fake DJ, German, KEXP, Mandarin, MetaFilter, Radio Sonarchy, Vancouver Canucks, podcasting

Matt Haughey's 2001 article on building an online community →

I still don't have a lot of experience actually building community sites. I'm thinking of launching up to 4 sites at the moment, but Matt's first tip has me reconsidering.

tags: MetaFilter, community, via:mathowie | # | comment Aug. 25th, 2006

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