Simple Safari News Aggregation
October 9, 2006
If you are trying to stay up to date on multiple news sites or blogs, you already respect the power of RSS. I’ve been asked a lot about what I use for aggregation on the Mac. I’ve homegrown a quick and dirty little web-reader of my own, but I’m often tempted to use Safari’s amazing built-in aggregation ability.
A regular reader URL looks like this: feeds:nosheep.net/feed/
You may have discovered that when clicking the blue RSS link on the right of the URL bar. The more powerful aggregation can be found by creating a folder of RSS bookmarks. When you do this, you get the option to “View All RSS Articles”.
This creates a URL like: feeds:My%20News&nosheep.net/feed/&www.lifeaftercoffee.com/feed/atom/&borkweb.com/feed/
Each feed URL is delimited with a simple ampersand. You can extend this for as many feeds as you want. To get even cooler, add that link to your bookmark bar. As new articles are posted in any of the feeds, a little number will count up next to the bookmark for each unread article. This makes it easy to know when there is new stuff to read.
Tags: atom, bookmarks, feed, feeds, rss, safari
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