Keeping Up with Gregarius

One of the most important technologies in use today is RSS (and its kissin’ cousin ATOM). Don’t know what RSS is and why it’s awesomely cool? Then go check out Wikipedia ‘s article on RSS, or look at http://tinyurl.com/oz6gh to discover what you can do with it.

When it comes to aggregating your RSS feeds so you can easily buzz through them, you can either use a local client or a Web-based application. The latter is ideal, as it’s accessible from anywhere. Bloglines (at http://www.bloglines.com) is one online RSS reade. It’s free, powerful, and offers persistent storage (in other words, you can save posts in feeds forever, deleting them when you feel like it). Unfortunately, Bloglines is seemingly devolving into a buggy mess.

Fortunately, open source fans have excellent alternatives that make it easy for folks currently enduring Bloglines to bid it farewell. The best of those is Gregarius, a Web-based program that runs on LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP). It’s easy to install and configure, comes with plenty of add-ons, and runs like a dream. Let’s get it set up so you can start using it ASAP.

Download Gregarius from http://gregarius.net. For complete installation instructions, expand the .tar.gz archive and read the INSTALL file. If you’ve ever installed a PHP/MySQL program before, you already know what to do. Create a MySQL database, expand the Gregarius .tar.gz archive into the Apache folder you…

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