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Dave Winer, 56, is a software developer and editor of the Scripting News weblog. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School and NYU, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.
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Readlists have feeds 
When I saw the new Readlists feature from Arc90, the company that makes Readability, my first reaction was if they had a feed for each list, it would be a linkblogging service with a very nice benefit -- all the articles it linked to would be very nicely readable.
Well, it turns out they do provide a feed. If you just add /feed at the end of any readlist URL, you'll get a nice RSS 2.0 feed.
Here's my Readlist page.
http://readlists.com/1ab6e0a5/
And here's the feed.
http://readlists.com/1ab6e0a5/feed/
I've started by adding some of my more recent articles that I think are worth a read. 
A little feedback for the developers. I got confused making this readlist, thinking I was adding items to my list when I accessed the Chrome plug-in and chose Read It Later from the menu. They really need a bookmarklet for this feature. Copy/pasting URLs is way too slow.
Another source of confusion. What's the difference between a reading list and a readlist. Maybe they should be the same thing?
To test it out I've subscribed to this feed in my personal river. Let's see if the items show up there.
Good news and bad news.
1. The item showed up in the river.
2. But it linked to the non-readable version of the article.
So, as much as I'm a fan of Arc90, the feed seems to miss the point.
5/31/2012; 9:34:03 AM.
