And Baby Makes Three » tech http://robern.net Robern Dot Net Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:08:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 The Media Landscape http://robern.net/2009/09/25/the-media-landscape/ http://robern.net/2009/09/25/the-media-landscape/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:07:53 +0000 Josh http://robern.net/?p=130

Wow!

]]> http://robern.net/2009/09/25/the-media-landscape/feed/ 0 What I Want: RSS -> Forum http://robern.net/2009/09/14/what-i-want-rss-forum/ http://robern.net/2009/09/14/what-i-want-rss-forum/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:13:43 +0000 Josh http://robern.net/?p=116 This is what I want: an RSS Reader that aggregates content into the format of a forum. Each post is its own topic, and the reader keeps track of comments such that when a post gets new comments, it gets bumped up the list and lights up. If I’ve read all the comments, the post gets greyed out and slowly sinks under the posts getting comments. As the user, I obviously choose which blogs are aggregated in ‘my’ forum, and which blogs go in which categories (although a really slick version would sort based on post flags and categories using rules I set up).

Maybe I’m just not using my own feed reader (NetNewsWire) correctly, but while I get to read the initial post of the hundred-plus blogs I follow, I only see the comments that are already there when I read the post. I don’t have any good way to keep track of comments and participate in the resulting discussions. This I would like to fix.

Has somebody done this already, or is there some way to jigger an existing feed reader to do this?

]]> http://robern.net/2009/09/14/what-i-want-rss-forum/feed/ 5 I Want Internet Television Now http://robern.net/2009/03/02/i-want-internet-television-now/ http://robern.net/2009/03/02/i-want-internet-television-now/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:32:38 +0000 Josh http://robern.net/?p=87 This is what I want: I want to be able to subscribe to a dozen video RSS feeds, and then have an application or a website or whatever that gives me a listing of the most recent videos updated and lets me watch them like I listen to podcasts on my iPhone. I want to construct my own television channel out of videos available online, and I want all the content on that channel to be available on demand.

Does this thing exist? If so, where do I get it? If not, who do I talk to to make it?

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