And here’s my config file that I use with Newsbeuter. article-sort-order date asc auto-reload yes reload-time 60 show-read-feeds no show-read-articles no mark-as-read-on-hover no bookmark-cmd "~/Development/bookmark" bookmark-autopilot no save-path "~/Documents/Research" Read more →
Tag: rss
Using RSS like it’s 1990
I’m a big console fan, preferring to do as much work as possible from the command line. So it shouldn’t be surprised that I also use RSS even as others have abandoned it for things like Twitter. I prefer to supplement my news feeds with Twitter and not replace it. Since the demise of Google Reader, I’ve settled on Feedly… Read more →
Google Reader shuts off tomorrow, use Google Takeout and Reader is Dead to backup
Tomorrow Google Reader shuts off, have you grabbed your data? The easiest way to backup your subscriptions from Google Reader is to use Google Takeout. This will give you a .zip file with a lot of data, including a subscriptions.xml which you can import into any RSS reader that accepts an OPML file. This is fine for your list of… Read more →
Following lots of people on Twitter? You need ReadTwit
[![10th November 314/365][]][] [![Creative Commons License][]][] [photo][] credit: [fifikins][] A couple of months ago I decided to expand my use of Twitter, and began following more and more people in the education community. This was awesome, until I realized I could not keep up with the barrage of data that I was being given. In November I started brainstorming ideas… Read more →
Language arts teachers, take note, experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in real time
Dracula Experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in a new way — in real time. Dracula is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters or diary entries,) and this blog will publish each diary entry on the day that it was written by the narrator so that the audience may experience the drama as the characters would have.… Read more →