Tag Archives: RSS

Twitter Lists: Defeat from the Beak of Victory

I wanted Twitter lists about five seconds after I clicked my second “follow”. My life is about categories and contexts: I follow people for different reasons, and I want to group those people and their tweets around similarities. Search and hash tags helped a little, but full-text search and uncontrolled tag vocabularies come with a host [...]

Beer Is Never Off-Topic: The Case for RSS, Part 1

 
A Perl Mongers tradition is that beer is never off-topic, but here’s a case where sudsy pleasure and geeky relevance collide.  I subscribe to Beer Advocate’s RSS feed and came across a particularly useful post:
Dogfish Head 2009 Beer Release Schedule – BeerAdvocate
Dogfish Head is a great craft brewer, and their brewpub in Gaithersburg is something [...]