2003 August

Via Paolo Valdemarin: “When publishing on a weblog or any other kind of site, authors could define their posts as part of a “channel”, such as technology, politics, etc. Newsreaders able to parse this kind of information could provide users with additional tools to organize what they read. A shared taxonomy to define categories would […]

Via Teal Sunglasses: “The move to a mailing list concept in RSS isn’t that tough - unless you try to make it a mailing list. But take the concept back to basics and rethink it, and all the pieces are there today. A bunch of this has already been talked about in the Mailman developers […]

When I’m on a cell phone, I have very different RSS reading requirements than when I’m at my desk. Bandwidth issues coupled with a limited form factor are reason enough for publishers to consider creating variants of RSS that are heavy and light. RSS is consumed in many ways and in diverse contexts by many […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has RSS feeds that you might find interesting. Action Alerts, Media Releases, a Monthly Events Calendar plus other feeds are available through the EFF. Check them out today.

Nothing would please me more than having my TV listings syndicated in RSS. This way I can use my aggregator instead of being bound to the TV Guide website. Heck, I spend most of my day reading news feeds anyway. Would it not make sense to have my TV listings right there for me to […]

Are you someone that freaks out if they miss an episode of their favorite TV show? Well this feed from About.com might be able to help alleviate some of that trauma for you. Stay updated with the Survivor series contestants, learn about upcoming TV episodes, and read viewer comments.

Craigslist now offers RSS 1.0 feeds of some of its sections. Nice.

There has been a lot of recent discussion as to the potential for RSS to replace email both here and elsewhere. In a post to his weblog on the topic, Jon Udell chimes in “RSS to replace email? Nah.” I agree. Email is used for too many things, but the reports of its death is premature.

The writing is on the Weblog wall: e-mail marketing—and e-mail notification, in general—is poised for disruption.
I monitor dozens of RSS feeds every day.  I can’t imagine going back to the pre-newsreader days of trying to keep up with dozens of web sites (and now many dozens of weblogs) by manually visiting each site.  Nor can […]

Chris turned me onto a program named Snownews a few days ago. Now I have to say that this is just too cool. It would appear that aggregators are not just for Windows anymore. For instance, Adam Kalsey showed us a GUI version of a Linux friendly aggregator on August 9th. Snownews on the other […]

Dictionary.com has a RSS feed for their “word of the day”. I make it a point to check this feed every time I get a chance. For instance, today’s word is “doppelganger”. Feeds like this can contribute to building an impressive vocabulary. Just for a fun, you could share this with a family member or […]

I live in Washington State and my local newspaper is a bit of a joke. With this in mind, I tend to prefer the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to get my local news. Much to my delight, today I discovered that they are now offering RSS feeds. This rocks! My favorite newspaper has enabled me to use […]

According to Heinz Tschabitscher from About.com; “Email newsletters are great, but spam is not. The deluge of junk mail has made it increasingly painful to follow the news and what’s happening on your favorite web sites via email.”
They also added; “Either the newsletter you’re eager to read is hidden in a massive spam attack […]

Via Editor & Publisher: “It’s time to move on to something that’s (we hope) spam-proof. You’ve probably heard about RSS, which stands for Rich Site Summary, and is sometimes called Really Simple Syndication. With e-mail on a rapid decline, RSS is the heir apparent. Now all publishers need to do is figure out how to […]

Any geek worth mentioning has been to SourceForge.net at least once in their life. As a matter of fact, I found an open source program there called POPFile that I simply cannot live without.
Now as we all know; “Time is like money because everybody wants some from ya.” We don’t always have the opportunity to […]

I’ve gathered a number of comments and suggestions about the issues of synchronizing aggregation and here’s an “aggregation” of tools and emerging ideas to deal with this problem.
To revisit the issue, Dave Winer presented the simplest statement of the problem in describing the Subscriptions Harmonizer: I subscribe to a feed at home but my aggregator […]

I’m a big fan of brand identity - it represents fundamental value and a voice that speaks above the competition. Brand identity also helps companies mitigate market confusion and capture the hearts and minds of an audience.
So, why haven’t any RSS reader tools innovated in ways that promote and leverage brand and brand awareness? Isn’t […]

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Chris Heathcote: “Welcome to the London art aggregator. I provide an RSS feed of art exhibitions in London today. You’ll be updated with new openings, and warned when exhibitions are about to finish.”
Sean Bonner: “The sixspace mailing list is now available in an RSS feed. I’m pretty sure that makes us the first art […]

“PopHeadlines… allows you to read RSS feeds in your favourite email client - any email client.” New in this version: support for enclosures; support for feeds containing relative URLs; various fixes and tweaks. If you’re craving mail client integration in Windows XP without having to use NewsGator, this is a great way to go. We […]