I unsubscribed from the Planet MySQL feed
Now why would I do that, especially when my blog is syndicated through it?
Simple. I’m always trying to cut back on RSS and other “stuff.” Less is more. But don’t worry — I subscribed again. Only this time, I subscribed to my own filtered version of it! I built it via Yahoo! Pipes. And I made it public, so you can subscribe to it too.
So what’s wrong with Planet MySQL?
Well… have you noticed how much airheaded marketing fluff has been pumped into the feed lately? It’s like some marketing droid handed down the order from on high, telling every marketing sub-droid to start writing clueless posts promoting things they don’t understand. So I have filtered out a few choice items. I have cut out the stuff I consider fluffy and/or bovine feces. And anyone who writes things I think are fluffy in the future, will get the axe too. Less is more.
Let me know if you subscribe to it. Feel free to suggest further filters.
Update being on the cut-list isn’t meant to say I think you are fluff or B.F. I also cut out some things I don’t find interesting from a technical standpoint. Sorry if I offended anyone (though I did mean to send a message to the marketing humanoids).
Alternatively, you could find a few good social bookmarking site users (e.g. on del.icio.us) to follow. Check who has bookmarked articles that interest you, then see what the rest of their SQL-tagged bookmarks are.
Tim McCormack
30 Oct 08 at 7:21 pm
RSS feeds are too tempting. I have very few non-personal blogs that I read. Honestly whenever I have 10-20 minutes to spare I go to http://www.planetmysql.com and just read what’s there. The good part about that is that it’s already aggregated and I can pick and choose what I click through to read. But RSS readers do that too…..
Sheeri K. Cabral
30 Oct 08 at 8:17 pm
Hi!
I just use the planetplanet.org software to generate my own planet data :)
Cheers,
-Brian
Brian Aker
30 Oct 08 at 8:20 pm
What would you think about having an option on PlanetMySQL to create your own “personalized” feed? E.g. an interface where you could select the authors you are interested in? Or how about a rating system where you could subscribe to a feed that only contains posts that received positive marks from others?
LenZ
31 Oct 08 at 4:54 am
Subscribed, looks good to me.
Thanks for taking the time to be a human filter, appreciated.
Craig
31 Oct 08 at 7:34 am
Fluff. Unsubscribed from this blog.
Just kidding!
Scott
31 Oct 08 at 9:06 am
LenZ, I think that would be useful to choose a feed with authors I like the most, but I don’t really care about what other people like. Occasionally I go look at other people’s likes, but only if I feel the need for more stuff to read, which I rarely do. I think those sorts of things tend to be group-think-reinforcing. I’m generally not a big social-whatever fan.
Xaprb
31 Oct 08 at 9:11 am
To all readers and commenters, I just want to note that I cut out more than fluff and B.F. authors — I also cut some that I don’t think are keenly interesting. So, being on the cut-list is not meant to be an affront. (However I’m not backing away from my stance on the marketing droids. I’m not afraid to give blunt feedback.)
Xaprb
31 Oct 08 at 9:13 am
Interesting. I’ve noticed the same as well. I’ll subscribe to both for a while to observe the difference in situ.
William
31 Oct 08 at 10:35 am
Its pretty nice. So far I agree with most of the filters. But just to be safe I created an inverted filter, that only gets the things that are banned from xarpb’s filters.
So it acts as a prioritization. If I have time I might look at the less important fluff feed, but now it won’t slow me down when trying to find the meat and potatoes.
If anyone else is interested.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=e75cdf0883dac184f27a7cd2342bc559
yahoo pipes is pretty neat, never looked at it before.
William
31 Oct 08 at 4:29 pm
I have been using a y! pipe for the past 2 months to filter planetmysql. I do whitelisting instead of blacklisting :)
http://pipes.yahoo.com/lunatech/myplanetmysql
Raj Shekhar
31 Oct 08 at 11:52 pm
[...] have calmed down after my frustration of a few days ago. My conscience says I was being unfair to Sun’s employees, who are just trying to make a [...]
I re-subscribed to Planet MySQL at Xaprb
11 Nov 08 at 10:58 pm
Unfortunatly I cannot find your pipe. It says: “No such pipe, or this pipe has been deleted”. Was this intended.
Andreas Mauf
23 Nov 08 at 7:04 pm
Right, see the comment just above yours: I re-subscribed.
Xaprb
23 Nov 08 at 7:15 pm
Oh, sorry, I skipped the trackbacks and I didn’t reached the “re-subscribed”-post in my feedreader cause of the many posts in planet-mysql. ;-)
Andreas Mauf
24 Nov 08 at 8:13 am