Internet Technologies: August 2006 Archives

I use a combination of liferea and akregator to read a fair number of blogs. I also use rssreader on windows. Also of note, I dumped akregator in favor of liferea over time. Why? I'm still not sure. (KDE is my desktop, always will be.)
At one point in time, I had nearly a gig of stored plaintext blogs. That's a lot of text.

Given that I can take a fair share of blogs and note how they either sport tags or categories, and I can likewise view that blog by all posts tagged or categorized, if I want to read about a specific subject someone blogs about, that's 100% doable. Face it, if you couldn't, people would wine. Hard.

So why doesn't my RSS reader software have this? Why can't I label digg.com as "stupid", "retarded", and "marginally interesting"? I'd tag my local newspapers as "news" and "local", and the other larger ones as "news" and "global".

Then I want a little search box up on top that will let me search though and view my tags. If I wanted local news, I'd just type in "local news" and tada, all of my local paper's RSS feeds would pop up. "internet news" would give me /. and digg. etc.

I'd really, really appreciate such a program that would let me tag blogs like that. It really would make my reading so much more enjoyable.