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Still here. Small project related to digg.
First of all, I doubt there are still any real subscribers to the feed, but if there are i'd appreciate if you'd make yourselves noticed. I'm not sure whether I still have an audience or all the hits my feeds have been getting is search engine crawlers. The spam keeps getting in but my posts don't. I've always said I'm not an ambitious blogger and the truth is that some changes in my life made me prioritize and blogging lost some importance/relevance.
Still, like I said when I launched mobifeeds, I won't close the blog because every once in a while I come up with a little something I'd like to share with the world. This time, is no different.
Digg - direct links feed
![[screenshot of feed rendered in Shiira]](http://imgs.andr3.net/ddigg.png "Screenshot of feed rendered in Shiira")
Being an avid Digg reader and a rare participant of the community sometimes the last thing I want to read is the stereotypical – and at times, very predicting – comments of some less inspired members. I just want to read the article!
So, I wrote a small script that basically removes the need to actually GO to digg's page to jump to the article at hand. It still presents a link to the digg page as well as some cache options (duggmirror and coral cache), in case the page has been dugg.
All you need to do is replace the feed address http://digg.com/rss/index.xml in your favourite feedreader (or startup page, like netvibes) with http://digg.andr3.net. Simple, eh?
I had this working a long time ago and at the time I shared it only with some close friends, but then digg changed the layout and the scraping started to fail. I never went around fixing it but now that I did, I thought I'd lay this here for all the visitors the search engines bring here.
That's all for now, see you all next year... or maybe not.
Hugo on mon, 5 mar 2007 03:31
I have your feed subscribed, because it works just fine in situations like your, with casual posts, once a while.
Thanks for your script.
Hayds on mon, 5 mar 2007 04:11
Steve Williams on mon, 5 mar 2007 06:14
I don't know how regular bloggers find the time either, I'd have to give up my social life to blog that often, or give up sleep...
roimatola on mon, 5 mar 2007 19:21
meechwings on mon, 5 mar 2007 21:09
Actually, it surprised me when I saw your post, at first I wondered which one of my friends was nerdy enough to know about digg :P.
andr3 on thu, 8 mar 2007 04:33
@Hugo: I appreciate that. I don't take this nearly as seriously as I should... I'm a shame to the community.
@Hayds: Dude! Long time no talk Hope you didn't actually fall... It's risky business, falling off a chair with the risk of banging your head somewhere. Can I be charged with that? Attempt of assault, even while being at the other side of the planet(almost literally)? Action-reaction... lol
@Steve: Indeed! When I keep reading new great content from the heads of the same people, I just gasp and enjoy the ride. They even have time to write books, like J. Keith. Thanks for caring and sticking around.
@roimatola: That was the most eloquent comment I've ever received. Thank you, dude, you made my day.
@meechwings: ahah digg is pretty commonplace now. At least I don't have to describe it as often in conversations IRL. ;) Oh, nevertheless, never underestimate my nerdiness.
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