Comments on: Does the Washington Post check its RSS feeds?

By: William Teach

William Teach — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:41:09 +0000

Try Bloglines. Since it is internet based, rather then stand alone, you can pick it up on any PC.

By: Uncle Pinky

Uncle Pinky — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:01:26 +0000

Well, I’ve got a couple rss feeds for the WaPo. Headlines updates very infrequently, A section is usually more timely. Used to be that they’d dump a bunch of feeds at set times, but they really don’t seem to be user friendly over there.

By: SaintOlaf

SaintOlaf — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:52:01 +0000

The less news that has top go through the washington post spin cyle…the better.

By: Kini

Kini — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:39:37 +0000

As someone not particularly interesting, I get my news from a variety of sources. Hot Air, Drudge, WSJ, Breibart, Times(LA,NY,WaPO,WaT), National Inquirer, the checkout counter at the supermarket, anonymous emails, hearsay….

By: Kaptain Amerika

Kaptain Amerika — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:28:21 +0000

maybe they want you to have to come to their site instead… you could always use google alerts for the POST

By: 186k

186k — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:38:37 +0000

Just in case anybody is in a bind and can't get to their feed reader. 186kps Mashup Sorry for the shameless plug.

By: CommentGuy

CommentGuy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:11:04 +0000

I use the Omea Pro version since they made it free and I haul in a massive number of feeds so I don’t have to go hunting through archives at blogs or use fancy search strings on google to be site specific.

I like the capability to find every post across the blogs I follow plus other sources from the last year and a half in under a second or two.

In my experience, due to a power surge here, the data base itself remained ok, but the index file of all the unique words in the database had to be rebuilt which takes a long time with the size my data base has grown.

I don’t try to read the feeds I bring in real time, since there are so many, I rely on the search feature to pick up what I need and have an interest in.

On an average day I am pulling in about 3200 posts to the reader, based on the number I had in the unread box after being away from the house all day on business.

By: CommentGuy

CommentGuy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:59:54 +0000

In case you missed my email to you on it.

Due to working mainly on their newer products the guys who developed Omea have released it to GPL license.

Hopefully the open source wonder kids will pick up the ball on development of the reader.

They were just swamped with the new stuff they were bringing out and couldn’t keep up with Omea.

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:57:42 +0000

RSS = used by bloggers

Washington Post RSS = Don’t feed the trolls

By: jgapinoy

jgapinoy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:14:56 +0000

The Washington ComPost, Newsweak, & Rolling Stoned seem to be trying to save their dying genre by moving further & further left to keep their devoted, rabid base. They seem to have given up on moderates & everyone else.

By: Larraby

Larraby — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:08:13 +0000

The Washington Post was so over the top in its obsequious coverage of Obama that I thought I had heard everything. But then along came Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart. NBC News had Capehart on its evening news as an “objective analyst”. Seriously, Capehart passes for “objective analyst” on NBC. Capehart actually said that Obama’s speech was “Barack Obama’s gift to the people of the United States”. Capehart went on ad nauseum about he personally is free from the sins of racism that affect most other white folks. But according to Capehart, the rest of us need Barack the redeemer to save us. I actually felt sorry for Capehart. Anyone who needs to be so sycophantic is just sad.

By: Nineball

Nineball — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:48:57 +0000

Ha! Ha! Your medium is dying! – Nelson (videoclip)

Pretty much sums it up….

By: JiangxiDad

JiangxiDad — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:42:56 +0000

However, if the Post doesn’t care to update its feeds, it may find itself as relevant as the New York Times’ columnists during the TimesSelect subscription service period.

yeah, that was funny. Imagine their surprise to learn nobody wanted to pay actual money for the Times’ opinions.

Here in NY they try to sell the paper for a dollar/week. Still few takers, even in the bluest of blue states.

A wonderful book has yet to be written about the demise of this American institution.

As for the WaPo, my understanding is that the bulk of their profits come from Kaplan Test Centers, and not the newspaper.

By: Just A Grunt

Just A Grunt — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:38:06 +0000

Speaking of RSS feeds. I can’t the one for Hotair to work in My Yahoo. Anybody got any tips out there?

By: Ed Morrissey

Ed Morrissey — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:36:25 +0000

I use Omea. It works pretty well, a little better than Sharpreader, but it tends to have DB corruption issues.

By: fluffy

fluffy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:36:04 +0000

lawhawk on March 21, 2008 at 9:25 AM

Ha ha!

By: Zorro

Zorro — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:35:35 +0000

Nothing from the Washington Post? That should be considered a gift.

By: someguy

someguy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:34:04 +0000

Ed, what reader do you use? Just curious.

By: lawhawk

lawhawk — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:25:18 +0000

I think this sums things up for you Ed.