RSS Alerts to IM: immedi.at
Never been much for actually using RSS readers. What I really wanted was a way of knowing when new posts had been added to blogs I read. So - I looked, and I found!
Simple bookmarklet which will send you instant messages whenever monitored urls are updated. Very cool.
Chuck - another good reason for sorting your domain out to actually point directly to your own blog (as in DNS, not web forwarding): this will not discover your RSS feeds off the domain forwarding frameset page (but I've subscribed using http://themojowire.blogspot.com). Speaking of which, I just noticed my blogroll has disappeared with this template. I will add it back in later.
Geoff - if you never wanted to see the boring stuff, you could always just subscribe to the rss feeds for the categories you're interested in (e.g. http://www.edgillett.com/blog/category/fun/feed/) See. WordPress is useful!
January 17th, 2006 - 10:49
My domain does point to my blog.
No more technical stories. Post me details of cool guitar riffs you’ve learnt or how you got drunk and decided to make a cat food chilli or something.
January 17th, 2006 - 11:06
Edwin! This is not an improvement! This is a downward spiralling!
Posting an excerpt from Cheers that has been doing the rounds on forwards since Margaret Thatcher was in power to try and show that you’re mending your ways and then immediately regressing isn’t progress.
Also, don’t you think the fact that you’re writing about software that will help your visitors to avoid the boring parts of your blog, which is, itself, a boring blog entry is the funniest thing you’ve done this week?
If you’re having to provide filters so people can avoid parts of your content, your content isn’t as compelling as it might be. Fact!
I suggest you make a serious attempt to better yourself this time. No more forwards, no more technobabble. I constitute 50% of your regular readership man, you will respect the customer!
January 17th, 2006 - 11:09
And I know you leave your name blank just to piss me off and have to edit it. Grr.
Yes, yes, yes – read the latest post.
The balance will be returned. Promise.
January 17th, 2006 - 11:10
And, call me sheltered, but I hadn’t actually read that Beer Buffalo theory joke before, and it landed in my inbox this morning.