Jonas Ferry’s blog

The feeds in this entry are no longer valid. I wrote the post before moving my blog. New feeds are available in the menu to the right.

Two years back I didn’t know much about web feeds. I didn’t know how to use them. Then I installed the Firefox extension Sage and was hooked. I hear Google reader is good, if you don’t use Firefox or if you want to reach your feeds from any computer. I think about migrating.

When I started using feeds I quickly realized I wanted to provide the same service for my own website. The first feed was for all entries, then a comments feed. Shortly after I added feeds for roleplaying game entries, film entries and entries on comics. Some people are only interested in my thoughts on roleplaying, and shouldn’t have to be notified of new film reviews.

That was it, until yesterday. You might notice a new link at the top of each entry called “Subscribe”. If you add that feed to your feed reader you’ll be notified of new comments to the entry. That’s a great way to keep in touch with posts you have commented. You’ll know if someone is talking to you, right away.

Please let me know if I can help you into the wonderful world of web feeds, or if something isn’t working on my page.

Some of the most popular Firefox extensions are ad blockers. I’ve never used one before, but instead developed surfing habits where I mostly didn’t notice ads.

Still, I wanted to try one to see if there’s any difference. I’ve chosen CustomizeGoogle, which does a whole lot of things, if you want it to. One feature is that all its features are optional.

If you’re interested in net privacy, CustomizeGoogle might be something for you. You can hide yourself from Google Analytics and from having clicks on ads count as actual clicks.

When you image search on Google, it links the results directly to the image, instead of that strange “half page” where you have to click the image once more to reach it.

Another interesting thing is that it allows you to “stream” the result page on Google searches. Instead of having results divided into pages, it adds results at the bottom as you scroll down. You have one long result page instead of many short ones. I used to guess pages’ importance by which result page they were on. I’ll have to see if I like the new way or switch back.