Tabbed rivers

[Dave Winer]

I have four rivers that I like to keep an eye on, but I really only get to one on a regular basis.

Now I have a new "tabbed river" that combines all four into a tabbed interface.

http://tabs.newsriver.org/

It's an experiment, wanted to share it with you guys.

Dave

[Rex Hammock]

tabs = awesome

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[Dave Winer]

Hey glad you like it! :-)

I just added a feature that allows you to select the active tab to start with.

http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=nola

http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=olympics

http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=tech

http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=dave

Useful if you're bookmarking the river, and know which one is more
important than the others.

Dave

[markswoods]

I really like the tabbed rivers. I see how this works on the static page presenting the tabbed rivers, but I'm less clear on how to categorize feeds to create separate rivers. How does that work and how can I do it myself?

Mark

[Dave Winer]

Mark the key idea is that every user gets their own river.

So, for each tab you create a new user.

And, each user will have their own JSON file. 

I added some notes on creating new users in the quickstart document.

http://quick.newsriver.org/

Dave

[markswoods]

Thanks Dave.

I gave this a try tonight, using Add user in the OPML Server to create a couple new users. I then signed out (as Admin) and tried logging in as one of my new users. I got an authorization error. Oh, that's on the OPML Server. If i log into River then it works! OK, I'm off and running now. I hadn't thought to try this because the River User's page did not display the newly created users. I'll have to look into why that is.

[mistersugar]

Can someone who has set up tabs with rivers please help me understand how I add one river to one tab.

I've got my tabs ready at http://2991.mediahackers.org/myRiverTabs.

I've got a Duke University river started, http://static.storyblogging.org/mango/rivers/duke/index.html, that I'll want to put onto the Duke tab.

Other rivers/users to be created once I know the steps to adding to a tabbed page.

Thanks.

Anton

[Dave Winer]

You could do it by copying the code at http://tabs.mediahackers.org/
and modifying it to work with your rivers.

That's the best I can offer at this time. It's not something you can
do in the worldoutline software.

Dave

[mukesh.wani]

I have my tabbed river up a running (http://river.mindpress.in), although it needs to be cleaned up a bit from a visual aspect. I'll try to post all the steps I had to do in order to get it running.

One thing that is now bugging me is how to add new subscriptions that I find while browsing the internet. Say I find a very interesting site that I want to follow and subscribe to in one of my rivers. By the way, each of my rivers is like a "folder" in Google Reader or a Category. So I find a site/blog that I want to follow in an appropriate River. I click on the Bookmarklet that I added to my toolbar for that specific River. The problem is it keeps going into the River of the user that I'm logged into (usually Admin). So I end up having to log out, go back to the website/blog and then click on bookmarklet again and sign in and add that feed to the River. 

Seems to me that since the user param is being passed from the bookmarklet it should just add the feed to that user automatically regardless of which user I'm signed in with. I saw the Open Subs feature and that could work however I can't use it like the bookmarklet code. So a feature request is to enable those that run multiple rivers as folders/categories to use add feeds to their respective river based on the bookmarklet param "user".

Thanks

Mukesh 

[Dave Winer]

There's a bookmarklet you can use as you travel around the web to subscribe to it in your river.

There's also a nice UI that you can hook into Chrome's automatic subscription mechanism (which as far as I can tell, as a Chrome user, they have not disabled).

Poke around on the worknotes.scripting.com site or use a search engine. If you don't find it maybe someone else can help.

Dave

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[mukesh.wani]

Hi Dave, are you talking about this bookmarklet: http://river.mindpress.in/river2/bookmarklet?user=admin which is available at the bottom of the Feeds page for each user/river? If so, that is the same one I'm using and I have added bookmarklet's for each of my Rivers to the browsers bookmarks bar. The issue I'm running into is regardless of which bookmarklet I click on the Feed is added to the feeds page of the user that I'm logged into (which is Admin usually). If there is another bookmarklet you are referring to then please let me know where it is. I'll look into the Chrome's automatic subscription.

Thanks

Mukesh

[Dave Winer]

1. Yes that's the bookmarklet I'm talking about.

2. What I suggest you use is the Open Subs feature. http://river.mindpress.in/river2/prefs?page=1.7

That's the one to hook up to the Chrome feature.

Dave

[mukesh.wani]

Hi Dave,

So I decided to use the Open Subs feature but instead of limiting it to a single browser, I combined this bookmarklet script (from the net) that will find the feed for a site with the addFeed URL. Minimizes a step and will work on all browsers bookmarks. Hopefully this will be useful for others running multiple rivers.

javascript:var%20feedurl=document.getElementsByTagName('link');for(var%20i=0;i<feedurl.length;i++){if(feedurl[i].type=='application/rss+xml'||feedurl[i].type=='application/atom+xml')location.href="http://river.mindpress.in/river2/addFeed?user=webdesign&url="+feedurl[i].href;}

Thanks
Mukesh