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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Good ideas on aggregation
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Ted Leung tells us how he uses an aggregator, and how the ones he uses fall short:
I don't blog nearly everything that I read, but I do remember that I read about something. FeedDemon doesn't have a capability to search the feeds that it keeps on disk (it also limits how many items it will keep). I want to be able to search the stuff that I read (or saw go by). In order to do that I need the content on my disk to do the search. I know about Feedster. Every time I've tried to use feedster to do this, it either took to long for me to find it, or I didn't find it at all. So I want all the content in the feed.
BottomFeeder has a lot of that functionality, but not really all combined the way Ted wants. For instance, Bf can search its internal store, and save as much as you want it to (you can now mark individual items as permanent). Bf can be set to auto-follow feeds that are links only, but:
It can't be set to follow excerpts only (good question - how would a tool know that we have an excerpt only?)
Even when it does auto-follow a link, the fetched data is not stored - it's transient
It looks like some of Ted's issues could be fixed on the aggregator side, but the full content desire really has to be met by the provider. Either way though, he provides some good food for thought
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