Comments on: Offline News Aggregator – January 2010 Ideas

By: Barklund

Barklund — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:31:04 +0000

Okay, this actually almost existed in the wild – I have received some incoming traffic from http://www.instapaper.com/, and it seems obvious why. But then in this post are some ideas for them to grab.

By: Barklund

Barklund — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:06:05 +0000

And that’s what it’s all about (taking ideas, adding to them, mixing it all up and see what happens). Many ideas in future posts will probably be spin-offs or expansions of other ideas and so on.

Feel free to spin-off as much as you wish ;)

By: Kim Bach

Kim Bach — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:23:13 +0000

I wasn’t really talking about RSS either, I do of-course know “readability”, but RSS is the lowest common denominator in integration.

I have a tendency to open up ideas, and take them in different directions as you might have noticed ;-)

By: Barklund

Barklund — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:46:03 +0000

Hi Kim,

I was not thinking about following some RSS-feeds and then reading them offline. I am talking about finding those few articles each day for completely different sources, that you would like to be able to read under more fitting circumstances – articles that you find via friends’ recommendations on Twitter, Facebook, Slashdot, Delicious or any other medium.

But of course, looking at existing scrapers and how they are doing it is interesting.

By: Kim Bach

Kim Bach — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:38:11 +0000

The RSS aggregator that is build into the calibre software works wonders, I’m using that to get Information in FULL on my Kindle, and it generates Python scripts that can be tweaked \o/, all-in-all a wonderful scraper