Google's new RSS reader might be pretty useful for following ask metafilter

October 7, 2005 10:32 AM

Google's new RSS reader might be pretty useful for following ask metafilter (screenshot). You can click the little star to mark a thread as a favorite.
posted by mathowie (staff) to MetaFilter-Related at 10:32 AM (14 comments total)

Forgot to include: and then there's a view of all your starred posts
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:41 AM on October 7, 2005

double
posted by Stynxno at 10:46 AM on October 7, 2005

If only there was some way to automate tagging.
posted by Rothko at 10:47 AM on October 7, 2005

double *clicks*
meta *clicks*
double *clicks, gets lost in swirling vortex*
posted by raedyn at 10:51 AM on October 7, 2005

?
posted by monju_bosatsu at 2:30 PM on October 7, 2005

How sweet would it be if you could customize the feed to only give you specific tags?

Pretty sweet indeed.
posted by me3dia at 2:58 PM on October 7, 2005

Here looks like as a good a place as any to ask: why doesn't Meta have a feed? Or, if it does, where is it?
posted by nkyad at 3:24 PM on October 7, 2005

Here looks like as a good a place as any to ask: why doesn't Meta have a feed? Or, if it does, where is it?

Scroll down the front page and look for the RSS icon.

now I feel like a real MetaVet!
posted by mmahaffie at 5:11 PM on October 7, 2005

mmahaffie that's for Metafilter not Metatalk. Only Mefi and AskMefi have feeds.
posted by peacay at 5:55 PM on October 7, 2005

so is this a .. are.. we... is this a callout or a.. double .. I'm .. *gets sucked into black hole, too*
posted by blacklite at 7:23 PM on October 7, 2005

mmahaffie that's for Metafilter not Metatalk.

Well. Hell. I thought that question looked too noobie to be true. I shoulda read more carefully.

*Slinks sheepishly off to bed.*
posted by mmahaffie at 7:39 PM on October 7, 2005

Does anyone know what to do after you hit 'export' in bloglines to import to this google reader?
posted by Quartermass at 9:21 PM on October 7, 2005

Quartermass writes "Does anyone know what to do after you hit 'export' in bloglines to import to this google reader?"

I don't use bloglines, but after the export, one .opml file should have been generated (the Reader imports in the opml format - I don't know if bloglines export in this format but it probably does). Then you hit "Add feed" in the reader and "import subscriptions" to get to the opml file upload form. If you have a reasonable number of feeds it may take a while to import then all.
posted by nkyad at 10:07 PM on October 7, 2005

I just noticed that there's more than 10x as many people subscribed in bloglines to MeFi as there are to AskMeFi. 800 -vs- 9000 or thereabouts. Imagine the scroll rate of the green if they all migrated.
posted by peacay at 7:34 AM on October 8, 2005