pipedot.org adds RSS feed reader

[jonh]

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.

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[RS Wood]

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!

[Koen]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:06:14 +0000, RS Wood wrote:
> Thanks to wjlwlsn for proposing our RSS feed as one of the standard
> feeds - I hope he takes us up on it!

Yes, Pipedot has added the comp.misc feed to the drop down list of
standard feeds.

[RS Wood]

Awesome! In a way, that makes us all sort of one community, loosely
tied together by common interests. I dig it.