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title: "FeedReactor and Ajax musings"
date: 2005-02-23T09:57:02-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/02/23/feedreactor-and-ajax-musings/
author: Les Orchard
---

# FeedReactor and Ajax musings

I still want to get back to that [address book web app][abook] I started babbling about before Christmas, mostly to exercise my working skills with REST, XML, Javascript and XMLHttpRequest--[now known as Ajax][ajax]?

[ajax]:http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php
[abook]:http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2004/12/23/abook1

I feel like I should work on FeedReactor, but I started work on that to scratch an itch and  exercise my RSS, Atom, and Ajax skills.  But, lately, I've been made reasonably happy and itch-scratched by the latest [betas of NetNewsWire][nnwb], and my RSS/Atom skills are getting quite exercised by writing a book.  

Furthermore, I had [brief, weak delusions of toppling the Bloglines empire][biz], but I'm not really devoted to that idea as a venture of my own.  Been there before (sorta), never got anywhere, [left a domain name and two dead-and-deleted SourceForge projects behind me][iai].  (And, a project *really* has to be dead for SourceForge to delete it.)  

Though, if someone else wants to hire me to build it for them, I don't think I'd turn down the offer.

[iai]: http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2002/08/26/ooobeh
[biz]:http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2004/09/20/bootstrapping_out_into_open_space
[nnwb]:http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/beta.php

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                <a href="#comment-221085002" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-02-23T11:27:22">2005-02-23T11:27:22</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Someone needs to name Ajax something else.  Maybe even remove the name altogether.  It reeks of Adaptive Path clawing for attention / trying to put their name on it.</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221085003" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-02-23T13:04:30">2005-02-23T13:04:30</time></a>
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            <div class="content">You could always join Phil Ringnalda in hacking on Feed on Feeds.  Of course, this means that you have to convince Steve Minutillo to let you help.  :)</div>
            
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