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Offline Zazen

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Your favorite RSS feeds
« on: January 17, 2009, 11:52:14 AM »
I just got one of those e-ink readers from Sony. I got it because I'm always printing out huge PDFs and carrying the paper around. Now I put the PDFs on the reader, and some ebooks and photos and stuff. But then I found this site: www.feedbooks.com . It takes RSS feeds, converts them to ebooks, and automatically syncs them to the reader when I plug it in. It works great and is really convenient.

So I signed up for a few RSS feeds, but I want more. I never really used RSS before so I don't know where all the good stuff is. So far I signed up for these, but some of them kinda suck:

Phonelosers site feed
Wikipedia Featured Articles (http://jeays.net/wikipedia/featured.xml)
The Economists "The World This Week" (http://www.economist.com/rss/the_world_this_week_rss.xml)
BBC World News (http://feeds.feedburner.com/bbcnewsworldfullfeed)
SANS ISC (http://isc.sans.org/rssfeed_full.xml)
CNET Security News(http://news.cnet.com/8300-1009_3-83.xml?tag=rtcol;about)
TaoSecurity (http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default)
LifeHacker (http://feeds.gawker.com/lifehacker/full)


So what are everyones favorite feeds?
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2009, 11:56:22 AM »
Here's a photo of what some PLA stuff looks like on the e-ink: http://imagesocket.com/view/Image21cc.jpg
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2009, 12:33:41 PM »
The best RSS feed ever: http://www.prehack.org/feed

But I also like:
Sign Hacker (Obviously!) - http://www.signhacker.com/feed/
Violent Acres - http://www.violentacres.com/rss
Phillip DeFranco - http://phillyd.tv/?feed=rss2
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2009, 02:55:02 PM »
I read RSS feeds all day.  I'm subscribed to 161 feeds via Google Reader and occasionally I share posts that really amuse me, which you can see at this address:

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/17081126155022016204

Quite a few of my shared items are things for my kids, but there's a lot of good stuff in there too.  Look at the blogs they're coming from and you'll find plenty of new feeds to add to your reader.

How much memory does that reader come with?  It's expandable with an SD card right?
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2009, 11:08:38 PM »
i <3 you, sabrebutt!  :D

as for me...i aggregated the RSS feeds of all the hackerspaces' blogs listed on hackerspaces.org, and read them.  since i'm involved with the hackerspace being planned in chicago, it's really cool to keep track of what they're doing, both to see what hackerspaces can be and to get ideas for any kinds of projects i may want to learn about once our space does open in a couple months.

it's a bunch of feeds, but i have an OPML file of all of them which i can send you in case you are interested in adding them to your feed reader...pm me.  the blogs are worth reading if you're at all interested in hackerspaces.
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2009, 12:09:36 AM »
I can't wait until this RSS fad is over with.
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2009, 12:06:02 PM »
Quote from: murd0c on January 19, 2009, 12:09:36 AM
I can't wait until this RSS fad is over with.

Dear murd0c,

Forget Scuba Steve, you're now the best! But I probably wouldn't hit on you even if I was drunk sorry.

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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2009, 01:04:55 PM »
Quote from: murd0c on January 19, 2009, 12:09:36 AM
I can't wait until this RSS fad is over with.

Yeah, just like that stupid "email" nonsense! Time to move on, people!

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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2009, 04:33:37 PM »
Thanks for your input everyone, I found a some gems. Unfortunately a bunch of feeds seem to be partial-only, which is kinda lame on the reader since you can't follow a link to read the whole article. I didn't realize so many of them were like that.


Quote from: rbcp on January 17, 2009, 02:55:02 PM
How much memory does that reader come with?  It's expandable with an SD card right?

It comes with 256MB internally and it'll take an SD card up to 8GB (it used to be 4GB but there's updated firmware that allows newer SD cards). Ebooks are small though and I haven't come close to filling up the 256.

It presents the storage as USB drives too, which is cool because you can store programs and other stuff on it. I made some autorun scripts so that whenever I plug it in, it downloads my google calendar for the next few months and converts it to pictures, and converts my address book to a nice pdf with an linked index.
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2009, 09:42:56 PM »
Quote from: Zazen on January 21, 2009, 04:33:37 PM
Thanks for your input everyone, I found a some gems. Unfortunately a bunch of feeds seem to be partial-only, which is kinda lame on the reader since you can't follow a link to read the whole article. I didn't realize so many of them were like that.

I hate partial rss feeds a lot.  The nerve of them, forcing me to actually go to their web page.
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2009, 11:10:26 PM »
Quote from: rbcp on January 22, 2009, 09:42:56 PM
Quote from: Zazen on January 21, 2009, 04:33:37 PM
Thanks for your input everyone, I found a some gems. Unfortunately a bunch of feeds seem to be partial-only, which is kinda lame on the reader since you can't follow a link to read the whole article. I didn't realize so many of them were like that.

I hate partial rss feeds a lot.  The nerve of them, forcing me to actually go to their web page.

END PARTIAL FEEDS
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2009, 11:17:03 PM »
partial feeds suck...but so do feeds that send every single comment to my rss reader.   just the posts, ma'am.
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2009, 11:20:48 PM »
* Switches PreHack's feeds over from partial to full.
* Feels like a newb.
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Re: Your favorite RSS feeds
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2009, 10:27:33 AM »
Quote from: Magus on January 22, 2009, 11:20:48 PM
* Switches PreHack's feeds over from partial to full.
* Feels like a newb.
SPREAD THE WORD OF OUR GOOD LORD THE FULL RSS FEED
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