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.
