As I was sorting Feedly out, I went to look at a blog I used to enjoy, Abu Muqawama. The author, Andrew Exum, took a leave of absence a little over a year ago, and left the blog to a couple of long-term guest authors. While reviewing my old feeds, I discovered not only that Exum has discontinued the blog, but that it's taken less than a month for the Center for a New American Security to straight up delete it, in its entirety. I'm actually rather upset, because there are several of Exum's posts that I would have copied and saved for my own purposes. There are also rumblings that the Ink Spots blog has gone defunct, though it's at least still present.
At any rate, something else that I've come up with, using my mad HTML editing skills, is my own local HTML file (built from the OPML file I exported from Google Reader) that organizes my feeds. It's much lower tech than Google Reader, Feedly, or Pulse, but it has the virtue of being a touch more reliable than free services (or blogs) that can disappear, even without any sort of notice.
Just in case you're curious what's currently in my feed, have a look:
Site; RSS: CNN.com - WORLD Site; RSS: Guardian World News | Site; RSS: al Jazeera English Site; RSS: Arab Times Site; RSS: BBC News - Middle East Site; RSS: CNN.com - WORLD/Middle East Site; RSS: The Economist: Middle East and Africa Site; RSS: Kuwait Times Site; RSS: Memri Latest Reports Site; RSS: Muscat Daily Oman News Site; RSS: Oman Observer Site; RSS: Oman Tribune Site; RSS: Site Intelligence Group - Jihadist News Site; RSS: Times Of Oman |
Site; RSS: Abu Muqawama Site; RSS: CNN Security Clearance Site; RSS: CSIS: Event Feed Site; RSS: CSIS: Publication Feed Site; RSS: FAS Strategic Security Blog Site; RSS: Foreign Affairs Site; RSS: Foreign Policy Site; RSS: Guardian: Julian Borger's global security blog Site; RSS: Ink Spots Site; RSS: Kevin Hanrahan Site; RSS: Michael J. Totten's blog Site; RSS: Michael Totten Site; RSS: Michael Yon - Online Magazine Site; RSS: Science of Global Security & Armed Conflict Site; RSS: Small Wars Journal Site; RSS: Spacewar.com Site; RSS: The Long War Journal (Site-Wide) Site; RSS: Wired.com Danger Room Site; RSS: Wired.com Threat Level Site; RSS: Understanding War Site; RSS: War Is Boring |
Site; RSS: BBC Global News Site; RSS: BBC Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews Site; RSS: BBC Newshour Site; RSS: BBC Xtra Arabic Site; RSS: The Faroe Islands Podcast Site; RSS: Fit for Duty Site; RSS: The Heritage Foundation - Past Events Site; RSS: The History Chicks Site; RSS: KSL Nightside Project Site; RSS: The Michael Medved Show Site; RSS: NASACast Audio Site; RSS: Orkney Talking Newspaper Site; RSS: Prime Minister's Questions Site; RSS: The Sporkful Site; RSS: War Studies' Podcast |
Site; RSS: Ctrl+Alt+Del Site; RSS: Cyanide and Happiness Site; RSS: Filibuster Cartoons Site; RSS: Pearls Before Swine Site; RSS: Penny Arcade Site; RSS: Real Life Comics Site; RSS: Romantically Apocalyptic Site; RSS: Terminal Lance Site; RSS: Wondermark Site; RSS: xkcd.com |
Site; RSS: Uploads from Callum McKain Site; RSS: Uploads from chimpaction Site; RSS: Uploads from Defence Images Site; RSS: Uploads from Official U.S. Navy Imagery Site; RSS: Uploads from the Oregon Military Department Site; RSS: Uploads from Orkneyjar Site; RSS: Uploads from The Central Intelligence Agency Site; RSS: Uploads from The United States Army Site; RSS: Uploads from United States Marine Corps |
Site; RSS: Musings from a Stonehead |
You know what they say: knowledge is power.
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