{"id":4928,"date":"2025-07-19T09:40:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/my-blogroll-is-a-feed-reader\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:59:03","slug":"my-blogroll-is-a-feed-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/my-blogroll-is-a-feed-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"My blogroll is a feed reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nice thing about a blogroll is that it can become a feed reader, in a very small space. It&#039;s been on my blog <a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/\">home page<\/a> for over a year, and I use it a lot, largely because I have to go to that page a lot to see how something I&#039;ve written looks. Then I see that one of my favorite sites has updated, and I take a <a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.scripting.com\/2025\/07\/19\/blogrollscreen.png\">quick look<\/a> to see what&#039;s new.<\/p>\n<p>From a technical standpoint, it&#039;s hooked into a <a href=\"https:\/\/feedland.org\/\">FeedLand<\/a> instance where I have created a category called <em>blogroll,<\/em> and put all the feeds I want in my blogroll in that category. All I have to do to add a new one is subscribe to it in <a href=\"https:\/\/feedland.org\/\">FeedLand<\/a>, and click the blogroll <a href=\"https:\/\/imgs.scripting.com\/2025\/07\/19\/cats.png\">checkbox<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another developer wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@susam\/114805652395205268\">post<\/a> about using their blogroll as a feed reader, and I wanted to put my hand up and say yes &#8212; this is a good idea. 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