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I heard these in the technology section of Wall Street Journal This Morning (airs 5:00-6:00am on 97.1FM, streaming live if you use IE, in St. Louis):

• Google started beta testing its scholarly search engine at scholar.google.com.
• My Yahoo! now has RSS support.

So I decided to check out the RSS support on My Yahoo!. I haven't visited there for five years.

Surprise number one: I logged in! It turns out that the login is the same as Yahoo Mail.

Surprise number two: Everything was the way I left it the last time I was there---the stock tickers, the sports news, the horoscopes, the local weather, everything!

There RSS support is not all that obvious though. I have to look around a bit to find out how things work. It's on their "Add Contents" page. Once there, everything is easy.

It turns out that I have to add my feed to their database so that other My Yahoo! users can find it. I can also put a link on my page for them to subscribe directly. Usually I'm not a fan of little link buttons, but I'll make an exception for them, just for remembering my customizations after all these years. (It's also RESTful, I think.)