[Noisebridge-discuss] how to read rss feeds

[aditya bhargava]

Sounds like you could do it via gmail and google reader too:
http://ruudhein.com/from-google-reader-to-gmail

And RSS feeds are just XML, so you could write something custom if you
wanted complete control.



On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:18 AM, <wonder at riseup.net> wrote:

> I use rss2email to convert feeds into text I can read in my inbox in pine.
> Works great.
>
> http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/
>
> Here's an example of what it sends me:
>
> ---
> Subject: Books by my bedside
>
> Three books that I'm excited to read:
>
>   * [Love in the Time of AIDS][1], by Mark Hunter. It has been acclaimed as
> the best book about HIV/AIDS in South Africa, and I'm not surprised. I was
> in South Africa when Mark was doing his fieldwork, working within a
> community over the course of years, trusted enough to be given access to
> love letters. When he presented his findings, it was always dynamite.
>
>   * [Consuming Mexican Labor ][2] by Ronald Mize and Alicia Swords. With a
> Republican House on the horizon, we can expect the anti-Latino rhetoric to
> step up a notch. And yet, as Mize and Swords show, there has been
> bi-partisan support for the idea that the US economy ought to rest on the
> backs of its poorest neighbours.
>   * [The Wind-Up Girl][3], by Paolo Bacigalupi. A [biopunk][4] set in a
> future South East Asia run by Monsanto's corporate children. Bacigalupi's
> latest has been shortlisted for the National Book Award, but this is the
> book that, deservedly from what I've read so far, has launched him into the
> stratosphere.
>
>    [1]:
> http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=401463
>    [2]:
> http://www.utppublishing.com/product.php?productid=2741&cat=0&page=1
>    [3]: http://windupstories.com/
>    [4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl
>
> URL: http://rajpatel.org/2010/10/30/books-by-my-bedside/
>
> ---
>
>
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Michael Shiloh wrote:
> > To: Noisebridge <Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> > Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] how to read rss feeds
> >
> > in my continuing quest to become somewhat literate in the ways of the
> > 21st century, i have decided that its time to learn how to read RSS
> > feeds. enough blogs are interesting to me that i want them delivered,
> > instead of me remembering to go to the website every so often.
> >
> > i like my feeds like i like my my email: plain old text. i don't like
> > forums or guis. (i'm using thunderbird only because i haven't gotten
> > around to setting up mutt, but that would be my ideal.)
> >
> > my fantasy rss reader would deliver the rss feed as simple text email to
> > my mailbox with a link to the original.
> >
> > i use linux and thurnderbird, although sometimes i'm forced to read my
> > google email account via the google website.
> >
> >
> > what rss readers can do this for me, ideally with a simple apt-get
> install?
> >
> >
> >
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