So I've been looking into RSS feeds as a technology more throughoutly recently as I wish to remake my various project logs in a new format — one that can hopefully be a little more well-rounded. Among other things I discovered that feed readers have functions to filter by category, author, and a bunch of other parameters. Some also come with a built-in browser. Question is how to make use of all that.

I've seen different people using different methods: bikobatanari has recently moved to a 'deliver in bulk, unpack in post' method in which the feed is a bullet list of changes, which is cool but my site is not updated as much... yet. The New Leaf Journal has various categories for its different articles (some with rather excessive names) but it also has three different feeds for articles of different sizes, which I also like. Then there is the question of whether to include the full article — as suggested by Yukinu — or whether a properly written summary (as with Biko) is enough. And what if visual flair is an essential part of the article as were the 'dialogue bubbles' in my case for Catscape Navigators?

If you have any advice, please let me know. Also feel free to post your own RSS feeds, I'd love to see them.

This sounds a lot like the digest emails you'd get on USENET and old-fashioned email discussion lists.

I'm still working on a new version of my website, but the old version is archived on a subdomain. Here's its RSS feed. It contains all posts and provides full text (but not in the preview rendered as HTML via XSLT).

The new version will have a similar feed: full text of all posts, but I'll also have separate per-category feeds so that people who just want my posts on Emacs don't also get my political rants (tl;dr: GOP = KKK) or posts like "I'm a Sodomite and I'm OK".

Oh, haven't heard of those before (even though I've heard of the term 'digest' used in a similar sense), I'll look into that as well. Bookmarked your page, will look forwards to your stuff.

Wish I had your confidence. Instead I'm hiding behind layers upon layers upon layers of metaphyisics and symbolism. It would solve so many problems.

I'm not that confident in real life, but since I had published books under my real name and built a website to promote those publications, I kept on using that name with appropriate disclaimers in case somebody from my day job googled me. The voice I use when writing online is me, but without the limitations of age and the habit of keeping quiet in order to fit in.

If you've read Snow Crash I'm a little like Hiro Protagonist: I might be relatively unprepossessing in reality, but online I'm more than I allow myself to be in the "real world". Online, I'm bigger than the Devil and twice as loud. There's are reason lots of nerds end up metalheads, too.

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