2003 December

eNewsletter Journal presents an interview with Chris Pirillo asking him about his thoughts on newsletters and RSS.
In the same issue, Newsletter Wars: Email vs. RSS debates the merits of newsletters moving to RSS as the solution to spam. Meryl reveals her opinion on the topic <the shock!>.

Announcing a new experimental service. My Yahoo to RSS converts modules personalized at http://my.yahoo.com/ into RSS feeds. At the moment, Stock Quotes, Movie Listings, and Weather are available.

Jason set up set a bot to do RSS feeds off of his jabber server. You do not need a Jabber client to see it. All IM platforms can see it (Aim, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN) and Jabber of course. The Bot is:
Aim: newsorbitjabbe
ICQ: 278021536
Yahoo: news_orbit
MSN:  News-Orbit at sweeney.ath.cx
Jabber:  News-Orbit at oracle.sweeney.ath.cx
At the moment, Bot [...]

Carlo has added newly scraped RSS feeds to his Bootleg RSS site, which include a few science sites and a Web comics. He has a cool feature when you roll over the XML link, it gives you a list of aggregators so you can add the feed to your aggregator of choice, if it’s [...]

nntp//rss is a Java-based bridge between RSS feeds and NNTP clients, enabling you to read your favorite RSS syndicated content within your existing NNTP newsreader. RSS feeds are represented as NNTP newsgroups, providing a simple, straightforward and familiar environment for news reading. Thanks, Justin Bell.

NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7 has been released. It is a customizable RSS news reader for web sites. It uses a familiar three-paned interface — like that of Outlook Express or Mailsmith — to display websites and their news.

This RSS Feeds slides complete with screenshots take you through four simple steps to capture, render, subscribe, aggregate, and manage RSS feeds.

We reported on a great site to get comic feeds called Tapestry. It is down and they’re working to get things back up.  http://dwlt.net/tapestry/)

FeedReaders.com needs help from Mac owners to test the Lockergnome News Feeder software. Contact Head Gnome at  chris at lockergnome.com, if you’re interested.

Hot on the heels of Bloglines, FastBuzz, and older mainstays such as Syndic8 and NewsIsFree, comes myFeedster. There must be a business model in here somewhere.

Not only does RSS provide us with a way to get all of our news from our favorite sites in one place, but also it’s PR on the cheap.

Fastbuzz is a new free online RSS aggregator that has search capbilities integrated into it. In addition to the standard aggregation features, you can subscribe to searches so that, for instance, you can do a search for "Chris Pirillo" and then subscribe to the search. Once you do that, you have a channel in [...]

MedicineNet.com is offering RSS feeds for content ranging from allergies to women’s health. This an excellent portal for all of your personal health needs.

pReSS from Mizog Software is a Mac-based software to help you to author RSS 2.0 news feeds.

View the slides on Atom in Depth, a presentation from the XML Conference by Sam Ruby. The presentation details the ins and outs of the Atom specification, an XML-based Web content and metadata syndication format (think a different brand of RSS). It is an emerging format for creating, syndicating, and archiving weblog information.

Meryl does the dance of joy! User Friendly now has an RSS feed among a few others. Just waiting for Joy of Tech to join the RSS revolution!

ESPN now has RSS feeds. Go Dallas Cowboys!

RSS, or more generally, web based syndication, appears to be hitting critical mass, but where is the money? Despite the promise of metadata enriched syndicated content, RSS is usually no more than a way to syndicate a link and a headline. No large publisher will syndicate their full content in RSS because they would lose [...]

btvillarin.com now has feeds for its site, which includes a newsletter, reviews, articles, rants, and tips for computer users.

The other day, at the Emerging Technology SIG, Doug Cutting gave a talk on Lucene and Nutch. Before the talk, Doug casually mentioned that he used a server-based RSS aggregator. Similarly, in the responses to my blog entry on RSS Aggregrators, someone mentioned they use bloglines. This is interesting to me. In my mind, and [...]