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RSS læser Liferea – alternativ til Google Reader

Google har tidligere i denne uge annonceret at de slukker for Google Reader til sommer.

Jeg har været glad for at bruge Google Reader til at følge udvalgte RSS feeds, men der findes alternativer og selvom beslutningen om at lukke Reader overrasker mig, så er jeg hverken sur eller bekymret.

Efter korte overvejelser er det gået op for mig at jeg faktisk ikke bruger Reader ret ofte væk fra min desktop computer. Så cloud-aspektet af en RSS-læser er egentlig ikke synderligt vigtigt for mig.
Mit valg af ny RSS-læser er faldet på Liferea (som jeg også har benyttet tidligere).

Hvis jeg på et senere tidspunkt skulle finde ud af at jeg må have min RSS-læser med mig i skyen skulle det ikke være umuligt enten at finde et andet værktøj, eller synkronisere konfigurationsfilerne gennem Ubuntu One, og således synkronisere feed-listen og oversigten over læste artikler mellem mine forskellige computere.

Installationen gik yderst smertefrit og under importeringen af mine gamle feed-list fik jeg også mulighed for at slette gamle og døde links.

Importeringen af mine gamle feeds krævede dog et enkelt trick. Fra Google Takeout fik jeg en subscriptions.xml fil.
Den skulle lige omdøbes til subscriptions.opml før Liferea ville åbne og importere den.

Men derefter gik alt fint og jeg har nu mine feeds klar til læsning lokalt gennem Liferea når jeg ønsker.

Blog movingday

For quite some time I have wanted to move my blog from my compadre.dk domain.

 

Getting the new domain (soerenbredlundcaspersen.dk) was quite easy, and I did that long time ago, but getting around the technical stuff took a bit more time. Setting up a new blog was no problem with WordPress. What took me some time (but now that I know how to do it shouldn’t have taken more that a few minutes) was moving all the old posts over through the wordpress export and import tools and setting up a redirect from the old blog.

 

So, hopefully I have now managed to transfer all the content from the old domain, set up a redirect that catches all old posts. Additionally I have changed the theme of the blog, from the very brightly coloured Greenery theme to the more low key Titan Theme. Hopefully this change won’t represent a general change from less colour full content on the blog, but I felt now might be as good a time as any to make a change.

 

On a more technical note, although the redirects should take care of any issues, feel free to update any links and change rss feeds from pointing to http://compadre.dk/blog/ to http://soerenbredlundcaspersen.dk/. All underlying link structure should have been moved along – but if you do notice dead links or other odd behaviour, feel free to let me know.

 

In case you wonder, this is actually the second time the blog is moving. First time was when I moved from Livejournal to a wordpress install on my own domain.