Links: cleaning out the RSS

By Chris Tackett

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

I love RSS. It is such a time-saver, though like email or bills, you have to have a good system for tackling the incoming information of you will get behind and possibly stressed, which is the exact opposite of what reading RSS is supposed to do, which is save you time.

I think I have a decent system for filtering incoming articles via RSS, though I have one flaw that I am trying to get over.

I use Google Reader, which has a feature called the 'Star' button. I use it to star posts that I know I am interested in seeing again, either because the article is about something I want to write about or it's about a product I want to buy or just something I want to read, but don't have the time when I first came across it.

It is similar to, though a little different than the 'Share' button, because with that whatever you choose to share will show up on your Shared Items and with the Star button, only you can see what you've starred.

I've found I have a hard time remembering to go back through and unstar stuff, so as a way to clear out my Google Reader Starred Items list (which is at close to 650 items going back to June 07) I'm going to start a daily post (maybe weekly if it takes too much time) of items I starred and think you will enjoy.

I'm taking out all the geeky stuff or things I can't recall why I ever found interesting. And I'll split them up by months or other easy to separate chunks.

Here are June and July's Starred Items:

Warped Custom Wallpaper

Scans of anarchist/sexual freedom magazine published in 1901

There's One Thing the US Presidential Contenders All Have in Common: God

Website helps you get your grandparents FBI files

The Myth of the Conservative movement

War and Censorship at Wilton High

TERREFORM’S SOFT CAR

One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding

Map shows how kids aren't allowed to roam around

The flags on our troops' uniforms say "Made in USA," but they're really "Made in Thailand."

MySpace, Facebook mirror class divisions in US society

The War on Drugs is Still a War on Blacks

Shit We're Diggin': The Kinetic Sculptures Of Theo Jansen

1952 comic predicts Bush/Cheny Iran policy

Talking Heads live in Rome 1980 concert vids

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Posted by OtherJoel (anonymous) on April 29, 2008 at 9:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)

You know, that person who has spent five years analyzing the class divisions among social networking sites makes me a little embarrassed about having a background in sociology. Five years of research to tell me that a site started at HARVARD tends toward the the more traditionally bourgeois groups in society.

And Rupert Murdoch owns the proletarian MySpace, maintaining control of the means of production -- of shameful drunken photographs in shirts two sizes too small and your kittykat with a handgun pimped profile. Cultural hegemony if ever there was such a thing. Brilliant!

You can read more about it on my MySpace.

Posted by OnShakedown (Chris Tackett) on April 30, 2008 at 8:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)

OJ, funny point. it is interesting to notice how the looks of each site are so different. one is all sleek and clean (at least until all these apps started going up) and the other looks like a glitter monster purged a flash-based confetti pie all over the screen.

i mean, if one of the sites wore a Looney Toons leather jacket, who do you think it'd be? exactly.

Links: cleaning out the RSS

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