it's interesting that there are half (or less) as many posts here each month as there were a year ago. may was amazingly light. combination of Twitter and wikipedia fatigue, maybe. maybe a good thing? got too busy for a while?
Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 5 Jul 2007, at 19:47, Michael Sullivan wrote: ha. i dont do much ranting here these days.... yeah i used to run my own rssfwd server on vlogdir.com. i worked with the developer to include rss enclosure support (linking to file in the body of message). on my version, the link to the video enclosure also included a link to open a vlogdir player page, which i was going to make nicer with useful metadata and sharing features etc. anyway, busy with new things. but the core concept of leveraging EMAIL for RSS to me is still very logical, especially if you are a more passive media consumer.... where you might watch/listen to media sporadically throughout the day, as opposed to having long sessions in Democracy or whatever else... a marathon of media consumption. I never have time for that. If I want media for remixing into other projects, then I might make use of desktop aggregators. Depends. Long Live Email :) Sull On 7/5/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, I'd almost forgotten that I'd heard you evangelize... but it's > only just sunk in that this is how I want to do it. And I'd also > forgotten the site you said you used. > RSSFWD.com > It's genius. It's so easy. > It's the future. And the past. All wrapped up together like a great > big present. > Thanks, Sull :D > > Rupert > > > On 5 Jul 2007, at 18:06, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I concur and have evangelized rss to email forwarding back when i > added the > feature to vlogdir a few years ago. > I also contrib'ed a section in jay Dedman's "Videoblogging" book on this > topic. > > Today, I still subscribe to all my feeds via rss to email forwarding.... > using rssfwd.com and my gmail account. With Labels and Filters applied, > gmail IS my RSS Reader. It never made sense to me to use another web > service for feeds. > If I need to download a channel's media locally, I will run Democracy or > some other apps. But day to day..... it's all about email. > > Sull > > On 7/5/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <rupert% 40fatgirlinohio.org>> > wrote: > > > > RSS readers and aggregators are not working as well as they used to > > for me at the moment. I've subscribed to too much stuff. > > > > Most of my viewing at the moment is of things that are hot off the > > press via links on Twitter or via email subscriptions. > > > > And I can't persuade any of my non-geek friends and family to even > > think about using readers or aggregators. The only thing they > > understand is email. > > > > So I want to shout about Subscribing By Email for a second. > > > > I strongly urge anybody who hasn't done so to install a Subscribe By > > Email form in their sidebar and feature it prominently alonside the > > link to your feed. > > > > Feedburner provide it in their Publicize section. It looks a bit big > > in its original form, but you can strip out the CSS easily and > > customize it a bit (I have). If you don't use Feedburner, you can > > get one for your site from Feedblitz. > > > > You can always set up rules, filters and folders in your email > > program to pick up feed emails and put them into a separate folder, > > to stop them clogging up your inbox, if you're worried about that. > > And, of course, you can always just delete them. > > > > It just *must* be the best way of reaching out to civilians, no? > > > > Rupert > > http://twittervlog.tv/ > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
