Posts Tagged ‘Tech’
Read Digg’s top stories? Subscribe to Feeddit
February 11th, 2009 • 2 comments
Tags: digg, Feeddit, feeds, Internet, News, rss, social news, Tech
Lost In Technology has written a post on a feed I have been using for a while now called Feeddit. I like to track the top stories on Digg. However, Digg’s RSS feed is really a mess if you ask me. The biggest problem: each story’s link tag goes to the Digg page rather than that story. So, here’s the scenario. I’m surfing along through my feeds with Google Reader (check out my video tutorial). I see a Digg post I want to read. I press the ‘v’ key to open the story. This opens a new tab with the Digg page for the story. I click the title of the story, and only now do I get yet another tab to read the actual story. This may not really sound like a big deal, but when you’re staring at an unread count of 1000+ (the highest count that registers on Google Reader) knowing that a good chunk of those are Digg stories, you want to burn through them pretty quickly so that you can filter out the good stuff from the crap. Those extra clicks, page loads, and tab closings really slow the process to a crawl.
Feeddit provides a remedy to this problem and them some. The feed item’s link is now directed to the actual story. Hurray! In addition, the poster’s name is included underneath the title of the story. The Digg count is included under the summary along with the comment count. Both of these link to the Digg page for the story making it easy to participate on Digg without shoving it down your throat every single story. I always want to view the article before I comment or digg it. Feeddit gives me a feed that makes sense for that workflow.
Now, where is the reddit analog to this?
If you aren’t wooting, our relationship is over
January 31st, 2009 •
Tags: deals, shopping, Tech, woot, woot.com
- Image by sensesmaybenumbed via Flickr
I’ve enjoyed these last couple of weeks. I really have. We really have a lot in common. I assume we have at least a little in common too; otherwise, why would you be here? But, there’s a problem: you’ll never understand my daily pilgrimage to the various woot sites to find today’s insane deal. You can’t understand because you just aren’t wooting yourself! You won’t know what it means to wake up and see the lights on the page meaning two things:
- It’s a woot-off.
- You’re not going to get anything accomplished today.
I feel your pain. I once was an innocent babe with no concept of what woot was. Luckily, there is something you can do to salvage our relationship. Check out woot.com, sellout.woot, wine.woot, and shirt.woot today to see what the deals are. You may not see anything you like so keep checking throughout the upcoming week. If you’re a geek (and you must be) you are bound to find something within a week’s time that you absolutely must have and is 30% cheaper than any other online retailer.
If you can’t learn and come to understand my relationship with woot, I’m afraid we will have to cut this whole thing off right here. That’s right, you’re going to need to find another blog. I just can’t think of another way out of this!
Actually, you’re welcome to stick around, woot-fan or not, but you should really check it out. I can’t think of anyone I’ve told about it who didn’t immediately become addicted. Enjoy!