Peek inside my Bloglines
Saturday May 29, 2004 – 9:44 amWanna see my up-to-the-minute blogroll? I’ve placed a link to it in the sidebar… maybe at some point I’ll figure out a nice-looking way to display it inline, like maybe in a little scrolling box or some such.
I’m very addicted to Bloglines now, as I think I’ve mentioned before. I hope it doesn’t turn into a paid service, but if it does I’m coughing up the dough!
I’m still carrying a torch for NetNewsWire though. You can’t EDIT your blog in Bloglines, for one thing. Not that I could do that with my ExpressionEngine blog anyway, ‘cuz it doesn’t support external editors quite yet. I’ve read up on the issue and it seems pretty complicated, since EE isn’t just a blogging tool. A normal weblog has the title field, the date, summary, body, extended entry, and blah blah blah… but with EE you can create whatever fields you want, for all sorts of data. The weblog thing you’re looking at now is just one of the modules that comes preinstalled, but you could really display any kind of data you want. It could be for an image gallery, a video jukebox, an employee database or whatever-the-fuck. So, it’s not impossible but they’d have to come up with their own API so people can edit all those wacky fields they’re creating. Shit, we’re lucky we can even do this, much less do it from outside the EE control panel!







May 29th, 2004 at 12:27 pm
w00t! I’m in your RSS reader! What do you like about bloglines? Do you use a lot of machines other than your own? I use the RSS Reader Panel plugin for Mozilla Firefox, and I love it! I love it because it lives in my browser, so I don’t need an external application to track feeds, and its more persistent than a Web-based reader.
May 29th, 2004 at 12:46 pm
I have three computers, so this way I always see the same thing no matter which one I’m using. Also Bloglines has search feeds, which is very cool, and other nifty geegaws I haven’t even tried. AND it saves bandwidth for the publisher, ‘cuz a lot of people can subscribe to a feed, but all those people won’t be pounding down the feed individually.
May 29th, 2004 at 1:10 pm
Gotcha. I’m required to keep office hours in an old TV Studio-cum-computer lab. You can get wireless in the hall, but the concrete walls are too thick for Wi-Fi, so I can’t browse on my notebook in there. I started to set up a Kinja account to use in there, but its linear layout doesn’t really work; a high-volume feed like BoingBoing drowns out the smaller more interesting blogs, so it really doesn’t serve my needs. The tree (arboreal?) structure of Bloglines would probably work better for me, since it displays each blog discretely.