[CLUE-Talk] news

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 13:33:32 -0600
Randy Arabie <randy at arabie.org> wrote:

> On Friday, 11 April 2003 at 22:28:04 -0600, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com>
> wrote:
> > Dunno whether I mentioned it back then or not, but I've found that
> > using an RSS aggregator works very well. There are lots of them, but
> > I'm liking Amphetadesk.
> > 
> >   http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/
> 
> I'm looking at that now.  Cool, so far.  I had a little trouble getting
> it installed.  The install docs and readme failed to mention a few perl
> modules that were required.

Oh, I should have warned you against using the 'perl -mcpan ...' method of
getting needed modules. It really sucks, IMHO. But I guess I already had
them all, coz I didn't have any trouble once I cleaned up the mess left
behind by that method.

> > Google news has RSS feeds. So does the Christian Science Monitor, BBC,
> > Slashdot, LWN, Politechbot (via newsisfree, I think), etc., and you
> > can get AP and UPI feeds too.
> 
> Care of offer up the URL for the google rss feeds.  I can't find any
> mention of it on the google website.

Uhm, well, once you Amphetadesk running, from the main page (your news
channels) click on "add a channel", then "G".

Or there's the classic google search: "RSS site:google.com".

I'll give a crap about entertainment news when:

1) Bruce Willis makes as much money as I do.
2) Pedophiles and crackheads immediately lose all their celebrity.

jed
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