2004 July

National Public Radio’s on the ball! Top Stories, U.S. News, World News, Business News, Health and Science News, and local NPR member stations are now all covered via RSS!

‘Rati has got a brand new look and it does look sharp and professional indeed. It is the service that keeps lagging behind this wonderful authority assessing and blogosphere sonar-scanning service.

I’ve tweaked our Amazon Feed Generator to automatically give you the option to search Google for the product, as well as do an immediate price comparison so you really know if you’re getting a good deal or not.

The Roman Relocation Program’s poster fellow Jason Cook has written up quite a nice tutorial over at the once-defunct, now resurrected (hallelujah!) and much-loved Webmonkey called RSS and Atom: What Next?

Steven M. Cohen writes:
“The E-mail Run Aggregator (ERA) works like listserv subscriptions, just with RSS Feeds. Users type in a bunch of command lines (simple enough) into an e-mail and the aggregator will send an e-mail when the feed has been updated. The user gets a choice as to how often the e-mails will be […]

John Dowdell writes:

“This emphasis on XML site changes for a notification service is very different from the ‘unformatted fulltext for offline reading’ definition that other people use for RSS. That little three-letter label seems too sexy and attractive, people are using it for different types of user needs…?”

Now you can access Alexa’s Hot Search Terms, Movers and Shakers, or Top Sites with RSS.

There was a time when I used to spend a few minutes a day looking over a handful of Web pages for news and information. Then RSS came upon the scene. Suddenly I could get my information quicker and easier. No longer forced to suffer through slow loading Web pages, I could just click on […]

“This has been a nightmare thought for me for a while now. I don’t know what new might come up tomorrow, but I am worried about viruses / worms that might enter our systems through RSS feeds or news aggregators. Technical guys and security experts, is this possible? I am sure anything is possible but […]

“Well, attentive readers of this blog will doubtless recall that I fumbled around a bit with a friend trying to find a way to do Gmail notifications without using another application like GTray. I was particularly taken up with the idea of using RSS as a way to do new mail notifications. Well, a bit […]

“This Feed2JS web site provides you a free service that can do all the hard work for you. We developed this as an experiment, largely for our own use. RSS was just starting to get popular in 2003, and it seemed like people could use an easier method for incorporating RSS into their own web […]

“Jeremy Wright asked me to tell him how to put full posts in his RSS templates, so, here are all of my RSS feeds and their templates: RSS 1.0 Full Feed, with complete HTML markup and comments; RSS 1.0 Full Feed, with complete HTML markup but without comments; RSS 1.0 Full Feed, without HTML markup […]

One of the best ways to extend your online reach, credibility and exposure is having your content widely distributed and endorsed by other online outlets. If you manage a news Web site and you output content in RSS, your goal should be the one of making it easy for other independent publishers to freely syndicate […]

Dan Fernandez writes:

One of my favorite features of C# Express is the built-in RSS Screensaver Starter Kit. If you’ve never built a screensaver before, or if you have never written code that uses RSS, then you’ll find the RSS Screen saver a great way to start programming.
In a nutshell, the RSS Screen saver is […]

Spyware/Adware-free Newsplorer is a skinnable newsreader application that sits on your desktop and “supports all major news syndication formats.” Ah, and the most splendid part of all? It’s free!

One of my favorite tech comics has an RSS Feed! If you only subscribe to one URL today, let this one be it.

“Feedster is a rapidly growing news search engine that provides easy access to relevant and up-to-date information. Mainstream information providers, as well as hundreds of thousands of weblogs, are syndicating their information using a newly popular XML syndication standard called RSS (Really Simple Syndication). By combining professional journalism and individual commentary, Feedster is the first […]

FeedCreator.class.php (the artist formerly known, amazingly enough, as RSSCreator.class.php) provides a way to create RSS feeds from within PHP using easy classes.

As Glen writes in his Exchange Dev Blog:

I’ve gone a bit RSS mad of late. For today’s edition I created an Event Sink for public folders so when a new mail or post arrives into that folder it will fire a script that updates a feed with the last 7 days of posts. I guess […]

First we had to do with secondhand, but now the New York Times offers its very own RSS feeds. What’s more: the feeds open articles without registration and there is an OPML feedlist for easy subscription.