5/1/05 | 10:34 am | RSS for Scavengeroogle Clues
Hey fiends, er… friends! In case you’re wondering, no the clue submission didn’t drop off the face of the earth. Er, the googlemap. No, there have actually been a huge number of clues suggested and I’m just going through them now. (Btw, there are so many that I can’t email everyone back who sends in a clue submission, but thank you very much for sending them in!)
I’ve decided not to run clues during the weekends because it’s a little too hectic for me. But we’ll try do clues every weekday.
I know a lot of you come to this site looking for a “live” clue only to find out there is 5 minutes left to solve one. Well, one way to keep up to date on clues is to add the Scavengeroogle RSS feed to your RSS news aggregator (if you have one). Now, I’m not an expert on RSS and I haven’t even really tried it out yet. But this SHOULD give you the latest clues.. I believe it will give you every entry actually. I’m not sure if it will list solutions as well, because I have solutions shut off from appearing on the main page (they only appear linked to the clues)
Anyhow the RSS feed is:
http://www.bloglander.com/scavengeroogle/feed/
If you so desire, I think you can also add it to MyYahoo through here:
And I believe people who use Bloglines can get it from:
I’m looking to put these buttons in the sidebar, but until then they’ll just be located in this post.
Also, I decided not to set up an email list… I didn’t want to deal with the unsubscribe/subscribe thing and plus it’s not like you need more clutter for your mailbox!
See you tomorrow!
May 2nd, 2005 at 12:32 am
I read the above post and learned something new about RSS feeds as a consequence. Anyway, the client for receiving RSS feeds that I liked cuz its open source and thus, very free, is called FeedReader. It will accept the scavengeroogle feed. I haven’t tried others, but I’m sure there are some wonderful alternatives around.
It comes loaded with a few cool feeds for news from a variety of news sources, and while its open, it pops up a little window every time new posts are made. To make this work to alert you of new feeds, it has to be open, so you may want to throw it into your start up folder that’s buried in your documents and settings folder.
And to the site admins (whose name or names I sorrowfully cannot find), FeedReader is showing me the clues and solutions pages, but since the title of the solutions pages starts with “Solution:” it’s not a problem. Also, I can only see the last ten posts right now, but I believe that has to do with FeedReader’s recent content cutoff, not the site’s posts being unavailable.
Anyway, thanks for enabling this, it’s a neat feature. And now I know about RSS feeds.
May 2nd, 2005 at 9:18 am
Scott - thanks for testing that one out, I had heard FeedReader mentioned once but never tried it. I’m new to RSS too. That’s interesting that it’s a standalone… all the other ones I mentioned are all web-based. I may give it a try since as you said it’s open source and thus I guess it would be less “spammy” and probably won’t install crud..