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September 12, 2006
RSS Aggregate Feeds
Recently I wanted to set up an RSS feed of all my stuff, you know, flickr images, blog, delicious links etc. I wanted to give someone a single link to all the things I update regularly online.
I decided on a web based solution so that I don't have to host it on my own server; no real reason for this, just being lazy really. But I thought it would be really easy, and maybe any lessons I learned would allow me to show friends how to do it too.
Feedburner
I've heard of Feedburner so logged in there and created an account. I found the whole thing a bit difficult to navigate, but eventually made this feed. Problem is, it's not really working very well. It only allows me to set up my blog as the primary feed, and then some predefined accounts as associate feeds to that. This would be OK if the ones I want were are all listed, but many that I want are not there. This really defeats the object of getting everything in one place. Also, the updates seem a bit sporadic. So I gave up on it.
SuprGlu
I asked some friends on the #(void) IRC channel and they came up with a better alternative. SuprGlu has some standard services like flickr and All Consuming, it even showed me how to set up my last.fm recently played music. Additionally, any number of custom feeds are also possible so I was able to include multiple blogs that I write. Here is the feed and here is a nice web page automatically generated from it. Sadly, I've again had a bit of a problem making it do updates frequently enough.
43People
Then quite by chance, Erik Benson told me in his blog how he solved this problem. He included it as a feature in the 43 People website. I already have a page here so did the relevant work and created a feed here too. It's pretty difficult to find the relevant setup page on 43people, but it's now working at least as well as the other options above.
Plagger?
I'm forced to admit defeat though. None of these options updates in a predictable or timely manner, so maybe I'll have to try something like plagger instead after all and install and host more software on my virtual server.
Posted by se71 at September 12, 2006 10:43 AM
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If you want, I'll set you up something on http://theplanetarium.org/ (something like http://davorg.planetarium.org/ perhaps). That's plagger and all the software is already installed.
At first, it'll probably be a case of me manually updating a list of feeds for you, but I hope to put some kind of management interface in place soon - and having a real client might encourage me to get off my arse and do something about that.
Posted by: Dave Cross ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://se71.org/blog/nav-commenters.gif)
at September 12, 2006 01:12 PM
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