News You Can Bruise for 2005 December 14

Feedburner's FeedFlare looks like the feed-annotation device I proposed early this year in the Ultra Gleeper post-partum entry "RSS aggregator as task aggregator". FeedFlare lets you munge the entries in your RSS feeds, adding arbitrary sidebars and tools to each. In the original entry I said:

It's a good idea though, until someone gets mad that you're changing their RSS feeds, which I estimate would take 16 seconds.

I was clearly a little off on my timing there, because it's been at least 18 seconds and I don't see anyone who's complained about this yet. I guess all the people who would get mad are still diverted by the spectacle of Greasemonkey modifying their web pages.