Now I Know Why People Don't Put MySpace in the Corner
On most websites nowadays, you'll see somewhere on the page, usually at the top right corner, links to the site's RSS feed, Twitter account, and Facebook fanpage. I've always wondered why MySpace,...
View ArticleDid Some House Cleaning with a Couple Feeds - Digg, Fark, Yahoo Buzz, Bloglines
I did some house cleaning over the last couple days with some feeds on the site. I removed Bloglines from Search because the site's closing down in November. Ask.com, which owns it, thinks that RSS...
View ArticleMost Fed Articles
Look to the right of the homepage and you’ll see a new module called “Most Fed Articles.” They’re AP articles ranked by the number of times they’re being used in the top newspapers in the US within the...
View ArticleSite Updates: Fixed Feeds for Washington Post, Yahoo Buzz, and Ft. Worth...
Apparently, the Washington Post had a redesign recently and their feeds were modified. Yahoo Buzz also had some changes lately - seemed like they streamlined the site and eliminated some categories. It...
View ArticleCron Jobs and Feed Updates
Lately, we’ve been adding more local news feeds to the site. Eventually, I want to have most of the major cities across the U.S. covered. What I had noticed since starting this local news project was...
View ArticleMoved SimplePie File Caching to Database
A while back, My ISP told me my backups took half a day to complete, which is too long. If anything goes wrong during that period, the process would have to start all over again, which happened quite...
View ArticleBroken Feeds: Is RSS Going the Way of the Dinosaurs?
I’m been fixing a bunch of broken feeds since the new year. It started with CNN, which launched a redesign at the beginning of the year. At the time, all of their RSS feeds were broken as a result of...
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