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Patrick Havens on May 29th, 2007

Now I read a couple hundred feeds, rarely do I bring the post count down to zero. But this is amazing.
Every morning Robert Scoble starts his day by sifting through 622 RSS feeds. In this interview, he describes the tools and tricks that enable him to accomplish the immense task of personally aggregating the [...]

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One of the most useful aspects of feed readers is how easy they make it to keep track of industry news. Which in my case means using Google Reader to read about… Google Reader. For example, I subscribe to the Google Blogsearch for “Google Reader” (which has a feed) so I know whenever someone writes [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 22nd, 2006

[...] America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We’re looking at an explosion of productivity [...]

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I’ve been working on putting together a simple site where one can read any feeds they want. And I finnally put it up. I Vant Info is just that. I pre-set it with a few feeds, (I’ll provide a list of more later). And you can move those around how you [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 28th, 2006

I updated my listing of everything I have in itunes.  I had cleaned up and organized things since I got my 30 Gig video ipod because I had filled it up the first day.
So far (if you notice) I’ve converted my Band of Brothers DVDs and Madagascar DVD to ipod mp4. and I’ve also found [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 28th, 2006

Boing Boing: Democracy net-video client goes Linux
Democracy net-video client goes Linux
The Linux version of Democracy player — a free and open Internet TV client — launched today. Democracy combines VLC (which plays any video format), BitTorrent (which makes it possible to share large files without spending large sums) and RSS (which lets you [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 19th, 2006

FeedBurner Will Dominate Blog-to-Email
ReadWriteWeb and I (TechCrunch) have been quietly testing a superb new FeedBurner blog-to-email product that addresses every feature I requested on No. 2 of this list. This new (free) Email Subscriptions product launches officially this morning and can be found under the “publicize” link at Feedburner.
Key features:

Free
Daily emails
Blog Branding - Feedburner plugs [...]

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