{"id":1988,"date":"2007-04-26T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T21:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2007\/04\/26\/the-xfruits-of-my-labor\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T21:07:14","slug":"the-xfruits-of-my-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/the-xfruits-of-my-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"The xFruits of my labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/software\/rss\/mash-up-rss-feeds-with-xfruits-239457.php\">Lifehacker&#8217;s recommendation<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been playing with the RSS mixer tool, <a href=\"http:\/\/xfruits.com\">xFruits<\/a>, lately. My goal was to create what I call a <a href=\"http:\/\/xfruits.com\/DrSetebos\/?id=21850\">LifeFeed<\/a>, which is a combination of <i>(a lot of, but not nearly all)<\/i> pieces of content that I am producing\/tracking on the internet. This is essentially an aggregated RSS feed containing the following contributions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\">Nerdflood<\/a> <i>(this blog)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/paynefamily\">Flickr photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/users\/DoctorSetebos\/dugg\">diggs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/shared\/16203131550083653210\">Link blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/users\/DoctorSetebos\/updates\">Game tracking updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ficlets.com\/authors\/drsetebos\">Ficlets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really like working with xFruits so far, although, admittedly, I haven&#8217;t done much except play around with the RSS aggregator. It&#8217;s fairly quick and easy to use, but I have just one complaint. I can&#8217;t label my feed sources. I&#8217;d like to see in the feed the ability to label the individual content feeds as &#8220;Nerdflood&#8221;, &#8220;Flickr&#8221;, &#8220;Ficlets&#8221;, etc. so it&#8217;s obvious where each entry in the feed was generated. But this is a quibbling nuisance, as you can see the sources in the URL when you hover over the links. It&#8217;s a &#8220;nice to have&#8221;, not a &#8220;must have&#8221; feature.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it&#8217;s a fun product, and I look forward to seeing new features added as time goes on. I plan to create a few more xFruits in the next few days, including one based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/evilavatar.com\/network.php\">Evil Avatar network<\/a> content.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and can someone please tell me what you would use &#8220;<b>RSS &#8211;&gt; PDF<\/b>&#8221; for? I can&#8217;t think of a reason for its existence, and it&#8217;s driving me nuts because I <i>KNOW<\/i> it has to be there to serve some purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Lifehacker&#8217;s recommendation, I&#8217;ve been playing with the RSS mixer tool, xFruits, lately. My goal was to create what I call a LifeFeed, which is a combination of (a lot of, but not nearly all) pieces of content that I am producing\/tracking on the internet. This is essentially an aggregated RSS feed containing the following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[448,449],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-rss","tag-xfruits","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}