Re: anyone recommend news aggregator (rss/rdf) ?
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:16:53 -0600
Brian McGroarty <brian@mcgroarty.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:42:41AM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:04:01 -0600
> > "Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:59:34PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi - can anyone recommend a news aggregator similar to k.r.s.s.
> > > > that is not dependant on a window manager (KDE/gnome/WM)?
> > > > Basically I need a "ticker" like the one in Evolution's Summary
> > > > page but don't want to have to run Evolution to have it.
> >
> > I found "Amphetadesk" (http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/) which
> > will run in your browser (dillo) and aggregate the news feeds you
> > assign - seems to work great so far, if anyone else is looking for
> > something similar.
>
> I don't believe blagg is packaged, but it's just a short
> script. blosxom is packaged in sid, at least.
>
> The two of them make it easy to set something like this up:
> http://www.mcgroarty.net/inkfeed/
>
> blagg is used to grab from rss feeds (you can do it in a cron job if
> you like), and blosxom is used to publish the data.
>
> The advantage of this approach is that you can read from any machine
> with a web browser if you set it up on a net-facing machine, and you
> can style it however you please.
Thanks Brian, I like you page - this is what I am looking for. I will
check into blagg and blosxom.
Shawn
>
>
> Cheers -
> Brian McGroarty
> http://www.mcgroarty.net
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Shawn Lamson
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