Shared feeds

October 3, 2009

Now that I’ve got a new work computer (a nice Lenovo W500), and sending my previous one back to Foundstone (goodbye Dell D630, you’ve done me proud), I’m getting all my software, settings, etc, installed.  I can never fathom out why, but it takes me forever doing this task and often a fresh OS image a few times to get things “just right”.

Anyway, while doing this, I’ve been categorizing my RSS feed’s saved items – generally I store “interesting” things I have found so that I can refer back to them or use them in work/presentations/papers.  Normally, these are just for me (although I may email some to a wider audience.  However, the latest version of FeedDemon (my RSS reader of choice at the moment) doesn’t support their online Newsgator service any more in preference of Google Reader, so that’s where my saved items are going, as well as the online backup/cache of the feeds I’m reading.

Now, although I now work for Microsoft, and even more so work in Bing, I still like a number of Google’s products – I’m pretty non-partisan and will just use what works for me unless there’s something I can dogfood and make better.  This does give me an opportunity though to share these saved items which you can see in the new “Shared” box to the right.  I’m not sure, someone may find this useful, but it’s literally no work for me to add so why not.

As expected, there’s quite a lot currently on security, software engineering, technology, web, etc (ignore the gossip – tags and folders are both included in this tag cloud and that’s where my feeds like ValleyWag and MiniMSFT go ).

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