December 2010
5 posts
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Pinboard or Diigo? Question post Delicious
This is the question I’m trying to answer these days: what comes after Delicious? Currently I have bookmarks in 4 different systems:
Delicious
InstaPaper
ReadItLater
Twitter favorites
For the last one, I have a separate app that fetches the content and displays it in a readable format (using a custom port of Readability).
So, what’s your recommendation? Should I stick with the above only...
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PureReader + PostRank for Google Reader: Awesome
I’ve already told you about Pure Reader Safari extension which will give you a Reeder like interface to Google Reader directly in your browser.
Now I’ve also installed the ☞ PostRank extensionto see if its filtering capabilities can help (nb considering I have a wide selection of feeds, including “trendy” ones like TechCrunch I’m afraid that buzzy ones will always be pushed on top).
Note:...
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Filtering and Curation →
Fred Wilson:
A central issue with the Internet, no matter what device and presentation layer you use to access it, is that there is an unlimited amount of content available.[…] Restricting access to content doesn’t work. Someone else’s content will get filtered and curated instead of yours. Scarcity is not a viable business model on the Internet.
Nothing to add, except maybe that at this...
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Textile Extensions in RedCloth
If you follow me on Twitter you’ve probably been annoyed by my questions (and complains)
about Ruby gem management. The reason of that series of tweets was that I’ve been playing lately with ☞ RedCloth, the Ruby implementation of ☞ Textile markup.
For almost an year I’ve been using ☞ Markdown for writing my posts (and in case you missed it somehow this last year I’ve published over 1300 posts on...
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Reeder or Google Reader: RSS readers for Mac OS X
I bet the first questions after seeing such a title would be:
aren’t these both working on top of the Google Reader?
why am I mentioning only these two when there are tons of other RSS readers for Mac OS X?
Before jumping to the main question, I think I should clarify these firstly. Indeed
☞ Reeder, as many of the other RSS feed readers do integrate with Google reader.
The main difference...