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Google Reader only scales so well
I really don't know how I ended up being subscribed to 1369 RSS feeds, but I did. A lot of it is probably Twitter feeds, which I subscribed to using Dave Winer's Twitter OPML exporter because I wanted a backup of this stuff.
So when I went to clean up my RSS folders today (how geeky can you get?), using Google Reader's organize function crashed by browser and almost the OS. Reboot, and it barely pulls the page up, but only about a third of it. The rest: The abyss.
Google Reader only scales so well: And then, the gaping void.
In other news, I've been hacking away at SpareChangeNews.net. Still a long way to go, but we should be rolling out a calendar system (yeah!), slide shows, and more in the next week or so.
Also, most of my blogging is over at ITKnowledgeExchange's IT Watch Blog now, so if tech news is your thing, try over there instead.
Guide: Make Yahoo! Pipes the ultimate news tracker
A few summers ago, I was guest editing a blog that covered a few topics I had only loosely tracked before. Since my job was to find and post the most interesting overlooked bits, I gave Yahoo! Pipes a look as a way to create a “news scanner,” and I was really happy with the result, dubbed IvyTrack ... when it worked.
Unfortunately, RSS feeds had a knack for not loading, but today I’m giving it another go with a guide on how to set up your own news topic tracker, including ways to get instant alerts through AOL IM or GChat when news on your beat breaks. Today, it’s all about speed, and Yahoo! Pipes can be a great tool on getting the heads up.
Comparison of Top 10 Print Papers' Bloglines subscriptions
I decided to take the numbers* of print editions and compare them to a small percentage of online "subscribers,**" in this case public Bloglines subscriptions. First time, so I might not have subscribed to the largest feeds, subscriber-wise:
| USA TODAY | 2,272,815 | 6,533 |
| Wall Street Journal | 2,049,786 | 1,246 |
| New York Times | 1,142,464 | 3,793 |
| Los Angeles Times | 851,832 | 60 |
| Washington Post | 724,242 | 744*** |
| New York Daily News | 708,477 | 117 |
| New York Post | 673,379 | 70 |
| Chicago Tribune | 579,079 | 140 |
| Houston Chronicle | 513,387 | 35 |
| Arizona Republic | 438,722 | 115 |
*Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations as reported by USA today on 5/8/2006.
**Bloglines.com public subscribers to newspaper websites' front page rss feeds. If no feeds automatically detected, searched site for news feed.
***Could not ascertain primary rss feed. Chose most popular bloglines RSS feed.
What Michael's been up to elsewhere ...
Thu, 2010-09-09 18:25
michael linked to 3 reasons to use MongoDB - Ryan Angilly's Blog 6:25pm#
michael tweeted "Memo: The AP will not distribute images or audio that specifically show Qurans being burned http://bit.ly/9YrRgx" 6:19pm#- michael linked to slash blog - AP's thoughts and musings » Blog Archive » I’m a Female Y Combinator Founder and You Can Be Too 5:53pm#
Thu, 2010-09-09 15:37
- michael linked to FarmVillains - Page 1 - News - San Francisco - SF Weekly 3:37pm#
- michael tweeted "My latest @ITKE blog post, which includes security imperatives, Biblical allusion and a tiny tree sloth. http://bit.ly/da88Of" 3:32pm#
- michael tweeted "RT @agolis: The Wrap writes up TBD, Capital and The Upshot: "New Media Upstarts Relying on Journalism for a Change" http://bit.ly/aZ4lH7" 3:11pm#
- michael linked to Rollover Minutes: How Adam Penenberg Has Legitimised New, New, New Journalism. Again. 2:06pm#
- michael tweeted "RT @NiemanLab: Genie journalism: @voiceofsandiego reporter "does your bidding for an entire day" http://nie.mn/dBCms2" 1:27pm#
- michael tweeted "@schrodingercat Yeah, except GMail's slowed to a crawl, performance-wise for me." 1:27pm#
- michael tweeted "@schrodingercat Yeah, I'm at 7.2 GB (26%) of 27.3 GB on morisy at gmail address. Probably because people casually tweet out that address :-/" 1:22pm#
- michael linked to nathangibbs's wjchat Bookmarks on Delicious 12:44pm#
- michael tweeted "RT @eric_andersen Did you know? The original name for "Google" was "BackRub"! Why? Perhaps best not to ask... http://j.mp/a1M9GV" 12:38pm#
- michael tweeted "Still working... That is all GMail has told me all morning. And I just forked over $5 for extra storage." 12:35pm#
- michael linked to Two Buck Chuck Takes A Bite Out of Napa - Sep. 7, 2007 12:30pm#
- michael tweeted "@radinfo @lundregan I don't think it's malware, but I haven't seen any good info about it in some casual Googling. Some viral campaign?" 7:54pm#