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***What It Is

Filtered News Feeds are an idea that I had when I realized that it’s impossible for me to keep up with all of the updates to the linux software that I use. It turns out that freshmeat.net is a channel on my.userland.com, and it also just so happens that Userland will push the syndication feed to my home machine.

So I have a basic “filters” prefs page for setting up the things I want to search for: what channels to search, what notification methods, and what keywords to search for. This is intended to be a synthetic feed that notifies me to information that I may miss if I rely on wetware filtering. (Wetware == grey matter)

***Status

Ths incoming news feeds are being searched, but the results aren’t being recorded at this point. I’m still figuring out the appropriate channel architecture. Watch this space…

I’ve got some background projects that I’d like to see happen. I’d like to see them as Open Source projects where people can take and use the code for their purposes and return their changes to the general community. It is also meant as a place for beginners to download some code to see what’s happening.

I’d like to see 10 projects going here, so I’m open to more ideas.

1. Basic Database – Define a set of fields using the prefs.root xml format, Add entries, search entries, and browse entries.
2. NNTP interface to discussion groups – There’s so many DG’s starting up, I’d like to have a good interface to them. (No disrespect Dave, Think 20 “Something Betters” from Roxanne.)
3. Network Bookmark list – For people who have too many browsers and bookmark lists.
4. “Filtered News Feeds” – was working on this, sort of abandoned.
5. “Web Based Backup” – If you’ve seen the Qube, then you know what direction I’m aiming for.
6. “Gnu diff”/patch for frontier
7. “Thread View” for the discussion group. – From any message in a thread, I want to be able to see the relation to all of the other messages in the thread.
8. Better integration of email and the discussion group/manila sites
9. Radio Userland Remote Player Xml-rpc interfaces on the a linux box and the drivers in RU to Store, Stream and Play mp3s.

*** Coding

First and foremost on the list is the frontier “Mailserver”, code to do a mailserver + pop + web interface all written in Frontier.

Next is the Affiliate/Syndication stuff that Userland is doing on my.userland.com. I’ve added to this to provide a “filtered news feeds”. Once your “filters” prefs have been set, you can be alerted when one of the Userland syndicated channels matches your search criteria. This isn’t actually functional right now due to a major system downtime that stopped my feed.

Also around here is an archive of little hacks that are “One hour scripts”.