Shared: Analyst sees ‘ghost town’ in Inland Empire
July 8th, 2008 at 08:00amShared from Google Reader:
Shared: Interview with Senator Government Genius: Discussing the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
July 4th, 2008 at 08:00amShared from Google Reader:
Interview with Senator Government Genius: Discussing the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
Post Shared Google Reader items in Wordpress
July 3rd, 2008 at 05:00pmYou might be wondering what these “Shared” posts are. Most of my web surfing consists of reading my RSS subscriptions in Google Reader, all 146 of them. On a given day I might find one or two things that I think other people would want to read. Google Reader lets you share items with your “friends”, but there’s no way to have a discussion about the content.
A while back I was trying to figure out a way to share those “shared” items with a wider audience. I stuck a link in the sidebar to my shared item page, but I doubt anybody uses it. What I really wanted to do was have Wordpress automatically create posts with a link to the content I mark in Google Reader. The WP-o-matic plugin does exactly what I want.
Setting up the plugin involves creating a CRON job on the server and setting up a feed to check periodically. You can customize the content of the post that gets created; I opted for a little blurb and a link to the content. I wanted to modify the title that gets created which isn’t an available option so I modified the plugin to do that for me. I also set it to save posts as drafts so I can assign a category and tags and maybe some of my thoughts before Google Reader gets a hold of it and caches it forever.
So these shared posts are really the cream of the crop of my subscriptions and I’d love to have people share things they find. I like the fact that whenever shared items show up in Google Reader from my friends they are of high quality and worth the read even though it might be outside my immediate area of interest.
Shared: The L.A. housing bubble: a snapshot in time
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:00amShared from Google Reader:
Shared: Real Homes of Genius: Today we Salute you Beverly Hills 90210. Making $1 Million in Home Equity Disappear.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:00amShared from Google Reader:
The Downey Bike Gang
June 29th, 2008 at 10:20pmWe (Yosts, Wallaces, Jason, Luna, Sarah and me) had our inaugural bike ride tonight. Met at the Park’s and rode up to Blizzberry. Good times were had. Picked up some glowsticks and stuck to side streets to avoid the Po-Po and our illegal rides (no lights). I Google Mapped our route and it was about 6.2 miles roundtrip from the Park’s. Good times, must do it again!
