Article Look and Feel

  • March 2nd, 2008
  • Posted by shawn
  • RSS

Here’s what each article looks like in my reader. Here a list of the sections as shown on the left of the image.
Title & Link – Article title and the link clicks through a tracking page that logs the followed links.
Actions – More info on this below.
Action Display – This area is normally hidden unless an action is clicked …


Added Techmeme

Long time since my last update. Since then I’ve added Techmeme into my information sources. I was temped to include the firehose feed but thought better of it. Instead I use the information from Techmeme and flag any article that is on Techmeme. This flag is used to pump up the weight of an article and …


Added Digg stats to unread articles

I’ve added digg stats to the unread articles.  The thought is to crowd source the articles that are weighted low on my personal schema but dug alot.  Eventually I don’t want to feel that I need to read every article.  By using digg stats I’ll know that the more talked about posts will be brought to my attention and should …


Posted a video

  • January 21st, 2008
  • Posted by shawn
  • RSS, Video

Finally got a chance to do a screen capture of the RSS Reader i’m working on.  Enjoy…


Exiting the Twilight Zone

This is the end of the voyage into the past.  Thanks for joining me on the journey.
Here’s a list of the previous posts in order:
RSS Fatigue
Relieving RSS Fatigue
Post Actions
Weighting RSS
Feed list modification
Added Search
Fav.or.it


Fav.or.it

  • December 10th, 2007
  • Posted by shawn
  • fav.or.it

First time I read about fav.or.it.  Felt good that I was going down a similar track as someone else but also a little bad because my idea wasn’t the first to hit the thoughts of everyone.  I saw a few screenshots and noticed that they weren’t open for registrations yet so I decided that I’d try to not look at …


Added Search

  • December 1st, 2007
  • Posted by shawn
  • RSS

Added a search feature.  I don’t think I’ll use it much but I figured I may need it one day and I was at a lull. 
It’s pretty basic you can search the posts title or body.  What makes it a little bit cool is that I can search for a specific tag and there is a check box to …


Feed list modification

  • November 17th, 2007
  • Posted by shawn
  • RSS

After I added weights to the feed I modified the feed list.  I first removed feeds with less then 5 posts or weight > 1 as I can pick these up in the latest list and keep them from cluttering my feed list.  I tried ordering the feeds by weight but that made finding a specific one difficult.  Now they …


Weighting RSS

  • November 14th, 2007
  • Posted by shawn
  • RSS

I now wanted to make certain tags bubble up even though their weren’t many posts on it.  I started by giving a weight to the tags and then tallying that rather then the number of posts associated.  I fine tuned the sizes of the tags in the display based on the maximum weight of the unread posts, rather then hard …


Post Actions

  • November 14th, 2007
  • Posted by shawn
  • RSS

I started adding actions so I could do something other then read the posts.
 

Favorite: marks the post as a favorite so when I write an script to clean up the database I can keep posts that are interesting.  Generally I see using this with technical blogs I’m subscribed to that have code snippets or something.
Mark Read: I already have …