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Entries from September 2007

RSS: The GUID Problem

September 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Andy Brudtkuhl laments a common problem one encounters as a feed aggregator: It isn’t always simple to eliminate duplicates when comparing RSS items. This is even true when you’re comparing two items that are actually the same thing, but one has been republished.
He has discovered that when you are trying to compare the [...]

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Tags: News · Opinion

Pacing Your Feeds

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Marshall Kirkpatrick posted some good advice about how to keep up with all of the RSS feeds in your reader. Boiled down to the essence:
1) You need an efficient reading mechanism (I use and recommend Google Reader.)
2) You need to keep your feeds organized so they make sense to you
3) You need to keep [...]

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Tags: Feeds · How-To