Since my original review of Tagcloud, they have implemented a number of features.

new weighting algorithm a stop words list – helpful in preventing irrelevant tags caching – yeah! – the tag cloud results are cached, meaning speedier performance! This is a great improvement. Control the number of tags – want only 10? want [...]

Ping-o-Matic! is a service that pings various other blog services. “Pinging” these services notifies them that there has been an update to the blog that “pinged”. How each service handles the ping is different. Some simply create a list a recently updated blogs, others create connections between blogs. Using ping-o-matic is an EASY way [...]

A much needed update to Rojo

The most common request was for a way to filter out stories that have already been read. There is now a “Show Unread Only” link in the header box that does just that.

This can be set for individual feeds or per tag. They need to have [...]

I came across several posts recently discussing the use of Feedburner feeds. The first, written in January 2005, encouraged Feedburner to find a solution for those who wanted to keep their feed on their own server. Another post commends Feedburner for having found a solution for those who wish to leave Feedburner in [...]

PubSub is an excellent RSS resource, designed to create your own personal feeds on topics of your own choosing.

Want to keep up with what is being said about, oh, lets says, school buses? Create a PubSub feed that looks for the terms “school bus” and “schools buses” and PubSub will look over [...]

This example simply uses Grouper to search a term on Google News. No cache file will be set.

Grouper’s default mode uses Google News, so there are no other settings other than the search terms.

<?php
require_once ‘homedir/rootdir/grouper/grouper.php’;
GrouperShow(“fishing”);
?>

The require_once line points to the installed location of [...]

The latest buzz on forums and such is the ability to republish RSS feeds on your own website. This is being recommended as a means to provide additional content to your website. Sounds like a great idea, but what are the legal issues involved?

RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. Syndication of a feed [...]

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Official Installation instructions for Grouper can be found here.

Installation is fairly simple.

Download the grouper zip file. Unzip the file. The files are unzipped into a folder named “grouper”. This folder and its contents will be uploaded to the webserver. Choose a location for the grouper folder that is not accessible by [...]

Grouper generates RSS feeds. It is able to talk to a variety of web sites and gather the recent news from those sites into a feed. This feed can then be used within an RSS Reader or can be displayed on a website using a tool such as CaRP.

Grouper is available in [...]

TagCloud is an online service providing users the ability to include popular keywords from their site (or others) in the form of tag “cloud”.

If that isn’t clear, here is an explanation straight off the TagCloud site:

TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feed you specify, [...]

Well, I have finally settled in to using Rojo. Though I still think I would prefer a desktop aggregator, Rojo meets most of my major criteria. I realize I have several posts now on similiar topics and my criteria are not necessarily gathered concisely in one post. Here are/were my criteria one by one.

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Pluck offers both an online version and an integrated browser version of their RSS Reader. Unfortunately, the integrated version is only for Internet Explorer. Seeing that I tend to use Firefox the majority of the time, I will save the IE portion of the review for someone else. This review then, will focus solely [...]

A Journal Headline and Summary Desktop Integrated Reader that allowed for clippings (which simply could be bookmarks I guess), organized by tags, and has the ability to view multiple feeds as one.

I have not found anything that matches this description as of yet.

It seems I am obsessed with finding the perfect RSS Reader. I continue to refine what is important and what is the most useful. Here is an attempt to organize my thought about RSS Readers in general.

There are several ways to discuss and organize RSS Readers. You may disagree with the following analysis, but [...]

With blogs as huge as they are, it is ironic that no one is truly happy with the state of RSS Reader development. For example, Random Foo is disappointed from the OS X RSS view of things. Having just reviewed Rojo, I wonder if that is not what he is looking for? Though [...]

Rojo is a new online RSS Reader. Rojo stands for RSS with mojo. Does it have the mojo it says it does?

Let’s find out.

Upon initial setup, Rojo leads new users through a setup wizard. Essentially, this is a means to let users choose feeds that are recommended by the Rojo editors or [...]

W3schools has a new tutorial about RSS. It is pretty basic, but that makes it ideal for beginners.

Well I totally hosed Surfpack. In adding an RSS feed, I managed to corrupt the desk.xml file. I then ran into several uninstall and re-install problems.

First, like a lot of software, Surfpack does not do a complete uninstall. Some files remain, mainly files that determine user preferences. Reinstalling without deleting the folder, brings [...]

In my search for a RSS Reader that meets my needs, I came across Surfpack.

Surfpack is sort of like My Yahoo but for your desktop. It displays within a browser, either IE or Firefox. This is good since it avoids having to have a third application open (email, browser, reader). It essentially [...]

Blogwise is a blog directory similar to other sites that have been reviewed here such as Blogcatalog.

The main page of Blogwise displays Recently Updated Blogs. Since these change so quickly and so often, I am wondering whether this is ultimately useful to users.

The main page also displays Blogs by Country, [...]

I want a desktop client Easier to navigate once pages are downloaded. No waiting for
a new web page to display. Speed is a issue with a lot of RSS
Readers, even if the user has a high speed connection. Great organizational capabilities. The use of tags, like
Rojo, is far more [...]

With the acquisition of FeedDemon by NewsGator, the power of an integrated client side reader with a server side reader is now within users hands. The previous post contains some thoughts on the acquisition.

Mac users can gain the same sort of integration using NetNewsWire. On the server side, NNW integrates with bloglines. [...]