Fun With Syndication

by Steve, March 6th, 2008

If you’re like me, and don’t think making Portland, Ore. look like Vancouver, B.C. should be the beginning and end of city development policy, you’ll probably like Portland Gentrification and Other Problems. With a sidebar of links annotated with snarky commentary like “Page after page of unintentionally hilarious stupidity that must be seen to be believed” (pdxcondos.net) and “PSU Architecture students see steel, get wood” (SkyscraperPage Portland Forum), you’re either going to love this blog… or just plain hate it.

I’m loving it, and added it to my feed aggregator the other day. (I read blogs almost exclusively in my aggregator, which means I get to have black text on a white background, regardless of what bad style decisions a blog author may have made, and I get to skip the ads.)

Anyway, today when I updated my feed, it came up with a bunch of new posts. The top of the list was about Natalie Imbruglia’s latest single. There was news of Joan Armatrading’s tour. A review of Neil Young concert. And something about “Pink snuggles up to hairy rocker.” All mixed in with articles about Portland gentrification, including “‘Fast Flip’ b/w ‘Do Ya Wanna Rent My Condo’ (12″ dance remix, nm, no ps).”

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Confused? So was I, until I realized that either my aggregator was confused, or the blog’s feed got crossed with the feed from The London Paper. Fun stuff.

3 Responses to “Fun With Syndication”

  1. Comment from McAngryPants:

    time to pull you over to the GoogleReader dark side. luuuuke! luuuuuuuuke!

  2. Comment from Portland Gentrification:

    Yeah, it doesn’t make sense – I broke up with Natalie Imbruglia like a YEAR AND A HALF ago. And I had to make my blog anonymous because Neil Young kept emailing me to “come over and arc one.”

  3. Comment from Steve:

    I know, I know, you had to break up with her because she wanted to move to a condo in the Pearl….

    McAngry, Google doesn’t work for intranet feeds that aren’t published externally. Plus, Google sux.