More precisely, I started to detail on some of the main points in the initial article. The reaction from the commenters was so nice, that I decided to go on and write a sequel. The post was immediately featured on, to my surprise (and delight, to be honest). I published an article about how you can run the best version of yourself, based on a sketchy parallel between human beings and computers. Let me tell you a story about how success can become your worst nightmare. And you know why? Because it’s going to be completely different from what you think it would. Something like this would be great on a WordPress blog.So, you want to hit it big with your blog? Go on, do it! Just don’t fantasize too much about how it’s going to be when you’ll do it. I created a feed customization system for CSUSB’s news site at my old job and it let’s you pick exactly what you want. It’s a shame that most sites don’t offer an easy way to customize RSS feeds. That filters a bunch of stuff out of the feed that I don’t care about and as things show up I don’t like I can filter out that specific tag. You add a source feed and then filter it like so: Most sites aren’t capable of filtering out content based on tags or categories so that’s where Yahoo Pipes comes in. I managed to filter my Lifehacker using a hand crafted RSS url: Lifehacker is a good example of this and there are lots of posts about Linux, Macs and iPhones that I would normally just filter through the titles and skip 80% of the posts (even filtered I only read 14%). I love RSS feeds, but sometimes one site will cover way too many things and post way too often, clogging up Google Reader with stuff I know ahead of time I don’t want. I’m subscribed to xkcd, but every time a new comic is published it shows up 2 or 3 times in Recommended Items. The other problem is some items show up from sites I’m already subscribed to.
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