Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: RSS

  • Major RSS Ticker Update Coming: What You Need to Know

    RSS Ticker has been an alternative to Web-based feed readers since 2006, displaying feed updates directly in users’ browsers. It hasn’t seen significant change in a while, but some of the internal Firefox code used by RSS Ticker has changed enough that in order for it to remain functional in Firefox 22, its entire architecture…

  • Feed Sidebar 2.0

    Feed Sidebar 2.0 has been released. Upgrade now to enable filtering your feeds with the search bar and to experience the big improvements in performance and memory usage. Filter your feeds with the search bar. You can install it at Mozilla Add-ons.

  • Feed Sidebar 2.0pre

    If anyone who has been using Feed Sidebar is interested in testing out the next version, you can install this nightly build of Feed Sidebar 2.0pre. Besides massive improvements in performance and compatibility for various feed types, it sports a nifty new search bar that you can use to filter your feeds: (Clicking the magnifying…

  • Thanks, Gawker!

    Alright, so which Gawker Media developer reads my blog? Just yesterday, I posted a request that Gawker not include “categories” before the post titles in the RSS feeds, and I just noticed that they’ve been moved to the end of the title and enclosed in brackets – that’s good enough for me. Thanks Gawker!

  • Gawker: Please fix your feeds

    The Gawker Media blogs (Consumerist, Gizmodo, etc.) do something with their RSS feeds that is incredibly annoying: they include a “category” of sorts before the title of the post: This does two things: 1. It obscures the actual title of the post. Many feed readers are loaded in the sidebar, which has a limited width.…

  • Feed Statistics 1.2: Monitor your most popular feeds

    I’ve updated the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress to version 1.2; this update adds a “Top Feeds” page where you can see what the most popular feeds for your website are (e.g., main feed, category feeds, different feed formats). It shows a list of all of the feed URLs that your subscibers are requesting, and…

  • Easy-peasy podcasting

    Want an easy way to generate a podcast or RSS feed? At Eliot’s request, I wrote a PHP script that generates an RSS feed based on the contents of its parent directory, so whenever you add files to that directory (or its subdirectories), the feed is updated with links to those files. It also supports…

  • Buggy Digg RSS Feeds: Resolved

    Digg finally fixed the bug I reported and wrote about here 3 months ago. When you consider that my feed reader checks for new items every 15 minutes, 10 hours per day, I received an unreadable feed almost 4,000 times.

  • GigaOM hacked?

    At about 12:50 PM CST today, the main RSS feed for Om Malik’s GigaOm blog started displaying only links to articles at Panzera Security Blog. Did someone hack into Om’s Feedburner account, or was this an accident? Update: I’ve contacted Om about it, but I don’t know how much attention he pays to the messages…

  • New Feed Sidebar feature: Age Limit

    What is the Feed Sidebar? It is an extension for the Firefox Web browser that displays all of the unread items from your news feeds (also known as Live Bookmarks) in the sidebar for easy management. One of the most frequent feature requests I get for the Feed Sidebar Firefox extension is the ability to…

  • Feed Statistics 1.1: Movin’ On Up

    I’ve just uploaded a big update to the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress. This new version allows you to track which posts your subscribers are reading and which links they’re clicking on. It also has better feed reader statistics, and a more organized administration menu. See the updated homepage for a full writeup of the…

  • More Feed Statistics coming

    I’m working on an update to the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress that will add the following features: The ability to track the number of views for individual posts in the feed Tracking of clickthroughs for links in your posts Better reporting of the feed readers used to access your feed I’m running this new…

  • Feed Statistics: Now with more statistics

    I’ve released the next iteration of the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress. This version (1.0.4) adds statistics on which Web-based feed readers your subscribers are using, which you can view on the Options > Feed Statistics page. Download the zip file of the newest version here, and overwrite feed-statistics.php in your blog’s wp-content/plugins/ directory if…

  • Feed Statistics: Now with fewer bots!

    I’ve updated the Feed Statistics plugin for WordPress again, this time to stop it from counting bots as users. If you’ve been running the plugin already, it will take a few days for the bots already counted as users to filter out. So your subscriber count may drop a little, but on the plus side,…

  • Feed Statistics: Updated Already?

    As is customary when you release some code and then immediately go to bed, Feed Statistics 1.0 had a small bug in it that made it non-functioning on about half of WordPress blogs, depending on the permalink structure being used. I’ve updated the plugin to version 1.0.1 to address this problem. Download it here, and…

  • Feed Statistics Plugin for WordPress

    Feed Statistics is a plugin I’ve written for WordPress blogs that monitors and displays the number of people who read your blog via the RSS feed. That’s all it does for now, and it does it well. In future versions, I may add more statistics and functionality (like displaying which feed readers your readers are…

  • Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/06/13

    This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/06/13 If you’d like to be notified whenever I release a new dataset, you can subscribe to the Digg Statisical…

  • RSS Ticker (finally) updated to 1.9

    I’ve finally gotten around to updating RSS Ticker. Among other things like new locales and code optimization, this version includes a rewrite of the options dialog and its related code, so any reported bugs related to the Options dialog should be fixed now. This includes the known incompatibility with the All-in-One Sidebar extension. You can…

  • Digg feeds still broken

    It’s been a week since I first brought up the problem with certain Digg Search RSS feeds being broken. I reported the bug through Digg’s “Report a Website bug” form, and I mentioned it here as well. Has a week been enough time to fix what is most likely a simple programming error? No. Initially,…

  • Top 1,000 Diggers: 2007/04/25

    This CSV files contains the username, number of frontpage stories, number of submitted stories, number of stories dugg, and number of profile views for the top 1,000 users on Digg. Top 1000 Diggers as of 2007/04/25 If you’d like to be notified whenever I release a new dataset, you can subscribe to the Digg Statisical…

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