daigo.org RSSMixing my RSSes
I have an English blog (this one), a Japanese blog and a Japanese PodCast. They all are powered by WordPress and they all have rss feed. But if I want to put every one of them into one feed, it wasn’t easy. Since all three blogs generate its own RSSes, it seemed simple enough to combine all of them. Boy, was I wrong. I thought feedburner will do this: Wrong. Then I found couple of sites that offers this: frankenfeed and feedcombine. While they are very nice programs (and both are for free) but they either won’t work with Japanese text (FeedCombine) or don’t sort the pubdate correctly (Frankenfeed). Frankenfeed is so, so close, but I want all three of the post to show up in blog style reverse chronological order.
Then there is a very nice article on phpbuilder.com in how to deal with feeds in the RSS. While this article is very nice and I could use this method to write out a master feed, but creating whole php pages with mysql back-end for this purpose seemed like a lot of work.
My other option was to use del.icio.us or Yahoo My Web 2.0 or this nifty “List Mixer” thingy to tag each of blog entry and read that rss feed in feedburener, but that seemed like sort of round about way when, again, those feed already exist. Then my new friend/colleague Alan enlightened me with this brilliant article. The answer was Google Reader. Yes, it still is a extra step, (I need to log into the Google Reader and click to “Share” the entry) but much easier than above tagging option, and I can weed-out some of the unwanted posts from here as well. Result is this: 
Daigo Fujiwara, the feed. I am pretty happy about it.
Totally unrelated but I thought this was pretty interesting, Eight of the top 20 books borrowed from Seoul National University library are Japanese novels. Which reminds me I haven’t read much of Japanese books lately (last one I read was Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, that was a pretty interesting book…).
