Creating RSS Feed with Slogger

Ever since I discovered it a few months ago, I’ve been plugging the Slogger extension for Firefox. Slogger allows the user to automate saving a local copy of every web page he or she visits. Doing so takes up 100-150mb a day, at least for me, but storage is cheap so why not?

Slogger also produces a daily page listing all of the pages you’ve logged, linking both to the local and web versions. In early versions of Slogger you could control the look, feel and content of that daily page by altering the template. The latest version of Slogger takes that one step further and allows you to define multiple profiles, so you could have an HTML version of that list as well as an ASCII-text version.

Or you could do what this user’s done and create an RSS feed of all the pages Slogger has logged and then read that in your news reader.

Why would you want to do so? Well, not everyone is like me and wants to save every web page they visit. Some people, instead, configure Slogger so that it only logs a page if they push a button that Slogger installs on the Navigation toolbar.

So you could use Slogger to archive pages that you want to go back and read at a later date, for example, and then maintain a list of those in an RSS channel on your local newsreader.

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