I suffer RSS withdrawal symptoms

Submitted by yelvington on July 24, 2006 - 8:08pm

I lost a lot of work in progress when my Compaq Evo laptop bit the dust, but the thing that has surprised me is how hard it's been to lose my RSS feeds. A key part of my job is keeping up with what's happening on the Internet, and suddenly I'm ... disconnected. Bam! Losing a couple of years' worth of email is hard; losing a huge list of RSS feeds turns out to be much harder.

I have an OPML file backed up ... from about a year ago. The best stuff came from the most recently added feeds. It's like losing part of your mind.

At a conference in pre-Katrina New Orleans, Nick Denton told me he has something like a thousand RSS feeds in his aggregator. Holy cow, I thought: That's not an aggregator, it's a lifestyle. Yeah. At some point I signed up for that lifestyle. Now I'm suffering withdrawal.

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Submitted by Tim Archambault (not verified) on March 26, 2007 - 1:31pm

Funny entries. I'm trying to find the RSS feed to your blog for a site I'm setting up for the New England New Media Association and I can't find it for the life of me :} Great work Steve.

Submitted by yelvington on March 26, 2007 - 4:26pm

If you're on a page that has an associated feed, Drupal automatically puts a link tag in the HTML head, so your browser will show a little RSS icon in the location bar. Clicking on it will subscribe you, in most modern browsers. For all pages there's a "Syndicate" item at the bottom of the left rail, with an RSS feed icon. Probably ought to have the word "feed" in it.