Tech blogs are back

by on March 20, 2007

I just finished reading my feeds today and there are a TON of great blogs out there — I probably put about 100 items on my link blog. I wish I could put Widgets on my blog cause Google Reader now has a little Widget that lets you put the latest 10 items in a box on your blog (Wordpress.com, the blog host I use, blocks most of them).

  • some more tech blogs you might be interested in - all aggregated into a company RSS feed :)

    http://people.ephox.com/
  • You can use a RSS widget in Wordpress. In the Wordpress Dashboard/admin go to Presentation > Sidebar Widgets, then add a new RSS widget. Use the RSS feed URL from your Google Reader shared page. For example mine is:
    http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/0...

    I did this on my blog. See "What I'm reading" in my sidebar:
    http://projecthtpc.wordpress.com/

    I also did the samething with Twitter (What I'm doing in my sidebar) although since its performance has been slow my tweets haven't been showing up regularly.
  • Andrew
    The best solution I found to Wordpress 2.1 stripping Javascript is to install Otto's ScriptEnabler Plugin (http://ottodestruct.com). Simple and works a charm.

    The programmer hasn't got anything about this on his website, but I found instructions and a copy of the plugin here. http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/2007/02/26/put-j...

    I hope this helps, because it seems lots of people have been battling with this problem.
  • So much data, so little time...

    Robert, were you a Usenet junkie in a past life?
  • candice: Yes!
  • The extreme feed consumption makes perfect sense now. Google reader even has 'j' and space for 'next' keys.
  • Robert, almost any other Wordpress based provider will allow javascript plugins. Wordpress.com has a religious aversion to them - change now and be happy.
  • Aah - Usenet - now that takes me back - not as far as MUDs tho :)

    Robert - any chance you could add my site to your shared reader?

    Thanks!
  • We talked about it, get a clean worpress.com theme and get a custom header and start adding some RSS sidebar widgets :) You could use a little change
  • You need to spice up the sidebar a bit :) I have another suggestion, what about removing underline for links? It looks cluttered.
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