RSS

I've long told myself that I wouldn't be caught gushing online about how great RSS feeds are, but like so many others in the blogosphere, I've become rather RSS-dependent.

I have 108 feeds subscribed in Syndirella right now. I tried out Syndirella on a whim after seeing it mentioned on Jerry Lawson's net.law.blog. I'd been using Aggie and had tried Amphetadesk, but I was getting tired of viewing the results in the form of a webpage, and Aggie's RSS parser was a tad sensitive. After two days, Syndirella is working rather well. People who want to try it should follow the advice here, and grab the programmer's "blog" version rather than the "webpage" version. He puts links to the most recent testing versions in his blog rather than on the webpage.

The only problem I've run into now is that a few blog*spot RSS feeds don't seem to be updating the way they should, and that's definitely not an aggregator problem. Perhaps this results from transitions following on the Google purchase of Pyra Labs. In any event, the How Appealing RSS file hasn't been updated since early Thursday. (The site most certainly has!) For a legal blogreader, that's the worst site to be out of touch with. Here's hoping that's patched up soon. Now I'll actually have to remember to check manually! What a disgrace!