Warning: The beautiful tedium of working with content management systems outlined below.
I still use google reader and RSS as my main avenue for keeping up with blogs and news. Maybe I am old fashioned. I don’t use the google reader web interface anymore. I mainly use reeder on my iPhone and iPad. I use the mac version when I am checking on my laptop.
I have long noticed that reeder shows some feeds with a nice giant image. A little googling showed that reeder is using the “apple-touch-icon” for this – the same icon the iPhone will use if you add a website to your home screen. You just need to specify the location of the apple-touch-icon in your web page like so:
For a fraction of a second I thought this might be an opportunity for me to start a new wordpress plugin but of course a plugin already exists.
Even though this is a pretty basic example, I love that you can find a WordPress plugin to do whatever I need to do. I also love that I was able to install said plugin in a few seconds right from the web interface. No ssh, sftp, wget.
Now on the off chance that anyone ever subscribes to this blog and uses reeder they will be warned of the bologna contained herein.
Love this! Reminds me of the time we photographed the hot dogs at WC… I’m going to look for the pic. Happy 2012! You will forever be part of my social network.
Kim! So great to hear from you. For some reason my mind keeps reading your comment as “the first time we photographed the hot dogs”. Wouldn’t that be something! Photographing processed meats should be a regular occurrence. Really bologna is just a giant hot dog sliced very thinly.