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Re: pipedot.org adds RSS feed reader

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jonh wrote:
> Anyone who misses iGoogle may be interested to know that <a
> href="http://pipedot.org">pipedot.org</a> has just added a lightweight
> RSS reader. An example can be seen <a href="
> http://pipedot.org/feed/">here</a>. Registered users can customize their
> subscribed RSS feeds by navigating to http://[username].pipedot.org.
>
> In a post titled <a
> href="http://pipedot.org/story/2014-02-24/confessions-of-an-igoogle-user">Confessions
> of an iGoogle User</a>, the lead developer of the
> small-yet-perfectly-formed news aggregation site *bryan* explains his
> motivation for providing this feature.
>

I saw that and am really impressed.  Does anyone know if this pipedot 
coding is a one-man effort?  If so, the guy is doing some pretty 
impressive work.

Anybody remember the days of SkyOS when one guy basically just went 
coding-crazy at the keyboard and would lay in huge new sections of code 
- like USB support - kind of by himself?  Too bad he burned out.  This 
pipedot thing reminds me of a smaller version of that.

The site looks great.  Just needs more articles.  Both Pipe and Soy at 
the moment have a high percentage of articles about their own progress. 
  That's acceptable for a while at the beginning of a project but sooner 
or later it's time to get other content flowing.

A year ago I'd volunteered to help at OSNews, and suggested to Thom that 
he designate a set of content curators, each providing articles about a 
certain area of interest (one Redhat guy, one Sun guy, one Android guy, 
or whatever).  He didn't really go for it.  I submitted articles for 
about two weeks and then gave up when a bunch of them got rejected.  And 
it really annoyed me when articles I proposed got rejected, and then 
turned into huge discussions on other sites like Ars Technica.  I kind 
of burned out after that - who wouldn't?

Thanks to wjlwlsn for proposing our RSS feed as one of the standard 
feeds - I hope he takes us up on it!

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pipedot.org adds RSS feed reader "jonh" <jon@nada-sub.co.uk> - 2014-02-24 10:59 -0600
  Re: pipedot.org adds RSS feed reader RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 18:06 +0000
    Re: pipedot.org adds RSS feed reader Koen <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-24 18:40 +0000
      Re: pipedot.org adds RSS feed reader RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 20:37 +0000

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