Flipboard trick

Flipboard is pretty great, but for the moment it doesn’t seem to let you arbitrarily add RSS feeds (which makes sense, I suppose, as it isn’t really supposed to be a true RSS feed reader).
It does, however, let you add Twitter lists, and it does do some pretty damn fine parsing of any links, articles or photos put into those lists. Creating a list of RSS-feed-like Twitter accounts from websites you wish to follow (example here) - accounts whose sole job it is to post links to articles - therefor means that Flipboard can integrate and parse the links that are posted. And the nice thing about Twitter lists is that you don’t even need to be following the accounts in any list you create.
It’s a cheap trick, yes, but it lets you generate a handy set of articles all in Flipboard’s nice magazine format from outside of the handpicked selection Flipboard ships with or anything your friends choose to post.

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