I originally posted this on April 30, but had to rebuild the site after encountering some problems. Reprinted here.
Readers who have been trying to access the site over the last couple of days, I apologize. There’s no telling what you might have been able to access, if you were able to access anything at all. Blame it on a flubbed software “upgrade.”
It’s a shame, too, because it had to happen just when there was an exciting announcement to make that is probably driving more visitors to the site.
You may recall that when I reviewed the Newsflashr service I said the feeds available are currently limited to a selection (admittedly a large one) of the top sources. While these are indeed the sources I most frequently consider, there are other sources I would like to be able to add as part of a personalized newsflashr.
I also said that based on what I have seen, I would bet adding those features is simply a matter of time.
Little did I know. As Gal explained in a news release:
We’re introducing two new sections for “Stock Market Beat” & “Techmeme Leaderboard” for new selections of the top business and technology news sources. Thanks to Bill Trent at Stock Market Beat for submitting his list of favorite financial news sources. Bill recently wrote a thorough review of newsflashr where he mentioned that he would like to see an option to get a personalized page and, by coincidence, we had just completed our work on this feature. So here’s our new way of viewing Bill’s OPML reading list:
Feeds view: http://www.newsflashr.com/feeds/stockmarketbeat.html
Topics view: http://www.newsflashr.com/topics/stockmarketbeat.html
Now you can sift through my news sources to see where I’m coming up with some of my crazy ideas.
In the meantime, I’ll be trying to restore my site to its previous condition.
