When Google Reader debuted, there was no question — it was as bad as all the other web-based feed readers. No way was I going to dump NetNewWire for it.
A few days ago, somebody (someone I follow on Twitter, I think — perhaps Michel Fortin?) commented about how they use Google Reader, so I gave [...]

A little over a year and a half ago, when John Reese announced his BlogRush service, I thought “oh, c**p,” (that word isn’t “CaRP” :-) “one of the big boys beat me to my idea.” At the time, I’d begun working on a site that was going to be similar, but with a few key [...]

I just uploaded version 2.0 of CaRP/WP (an RSS plugin for WordPress) to my server. CaRP/WP works with CaRP to display RSS feed content, including Amazon.com affiliate feeds and YouTube videos, in the posts and pages of WordPress blogs. This version also enables CaRP/WP to work as a sidebar widget.
 

I’ve released two new plugins for CaRP Evolution this week: One for podcasts and one for sorting.
The podcast plugin uses the 1 Pixel Out Audio Player (which is a WordPress plugin, but can be used without WordPress) to display Flash-powered MP3 audio players for each podcast. You can see an example on the podcast plugin’s [...]

Twitter has a widget that you can use to display your latest update in your blog sidebar or elsewhere on your website. But it’s…well, not perfect. I found that it was bigger than necessary for the text it contained, and the empty space didn’t exactly enhance the look of my blog.
So I wrote my own [...]

Magpie and CaRP are two popular RSS parser scripts, both written in PHP, but which is better? I did a quick comparison, and this is what I came up with. Yes, I am the creator of CaRP, so read carefully and decide for yourself whether you can trust me! I’ll try to be as objective [...]

I’ve just posted a new page on Chordata called “Net Pulse News“. It pulls the hottest search trends from Google Trends, and displays news, blog and video search results based on those keywords.
Google Trends identifies the hottest trends in search — the keywords that massive numbers of people have recently started searching for. When big [...]

I just launched a new service on Chordata called “Top Feeds” that generates RSS feeds from the content of the top feeds in each category on the site. Go to any category and click the subscription button near the upper-right corner of the page to subscribe. As the top feeds in a category [...]

CaRP 4.0 has been released, and until Saturday, is available at an introductory discount price. Click here for details on what’s in this update, and here to get your copy.
 

I’ve got some good news and some bad news.
The good news: CaRP version 4.0 is finally ready for release.
The bad news: I’m going to be out of town for a week and won’t be able to release it before then, so you’ll have to wait till the 26th or so to get your hands on [...]