Archives for the tag "rss"

I love the way Firefox handles RSS feeds now

I love the way Firefox handles RSS feeds now. Previously, when you saw that orange icon in the address bar, clicking it would prompt you to save it as a live bookmark in ...

Google Reader: reBlog killer

Google Reader's recent interface changes have basically eliminated the need for me to continue with reBlog, a system that lets me share selected RSS items culled from several feeds. Reading some of the comments on the new interface by users, it seems to be a pretty mixed bag ...

RSS remixers

OK, Lazybase is kind of cool. Here's the basic rundown of RSS remixers; the actual database has more fields than this. I may end up going through the services listed here and here and adding them to the db. Again, you can view the complete db and contribute ...

Yet another way to get feeds in your web page

Use Grazr or Bitty Browser with a public feed or OPML file. You can embed your blogroll or favorite feed--or mixed feed--while keeping your visitors on your page. Many thanks to Robin for the excellent info.

Hosted feed remixers

A few days ago I wrote about fast feed aggregators you could host yourself. You may be asking, "Why on earth would I want to do that when there are services that let me do that without all the hassle?" In the long run, I think a DIY approach ...

RSS: I had it backwards

I'm retooling my intro to RSS for our wiki and I realize just how backwards it is. The thing is, RSS isn't what's so fascinating, it's the RSS readers (and what you can do with feeds) that are. It's as if I were pushing gasoline when it's really the ...

SocialMail: Easier Mailman feeds and discussion lists

I wrote some fairly long and complicated instructions for adding RSS feeds to Mailman mailing lists. Thanks to eHub, I'm now aware of SocialMail. This tool allows you to create an email address, which you can then subscribe to your Mailman list. SocialMail generates an RSS feed ...

Google news with rss–finally

Yay, Will points out that Google now provides RSS feeds for news searches and top-level categories.

Things you can do with RSS

This is a comprehensive list. One that I had never thought of: Become a comment blogger Use del.icio.us to bookmark your comments on other blogs. Then rss-feed them back to your own blog. Things you can do with RSS

A different angle on excerpts vs. complete feeds

The other night in some truly free-form surfing I came across an interesting post on the dilemma of whether to publish a complete RSS feed or story excerpts. It reminded me of a recent post by James, To publish full RSS or not to publish full RSS. At issue ...

What is OPML?

OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is a file format you can use to share RSS subscriptions. If you use an RSS aggregator like bloglines (online) or RSS Bandit (free download), you can import an OPML file and automagically be subscribed to all the feeds in the file. If ...

Blogs @ Zane State community feed available

You can now subscribe to the RSS feed for the community blog. This feed is generated from the 3 latest posts in each blog, ordered by date. Just visit the community blog and subscribe to the RSS feed.

Review: Firefox and RSS

OK, I downloaded it, I tried it, and I like it! First, when you visit a site that has an auto-discoverable feed, you see this nice orange RSS icon at the bottom-right of the status bar. Clicking the icon ...

Firefox 1.0 preview and RSS–yippee!

It looks like the Mozilla foundation is really taking steps to integrate RSS into its products. From an eWeek article: With the Firefox 1.0 preview, Mozilla also has targeted some of the new features at everyday users. The new RSS reader, called Live Bookmarks, is focused on helping users discover ...

More Bookmarks RSS Goodness

As I wrote earlier, I've been hacking on Bookmark4u--a web-based bookmarking app that I personally find more useful than Furl--to export bookmarks as RSS. With help from Gavin from the bm4u mailing list, I can now export bookmarks and use the parent folder name as the category/topic ...

Hope for RSS searches

I have sung the virtues of RSS Bandit before, and with any luck I'll soon have the perfect aggregator. On one of the forums I recently requested that developers add the capability to export individual feed folders; currently, RSS Bandit only exports the entire feed list. This may ...

RSS and email: So happy together

In a former blog, which I didn't bother to convert when I switched to WordPress, I wrote about how I would like to see an integrated email/nntp/rss application. I just think it would be nice to have the familiar email interface for dealing with rss feeds. Well I just tried ...

Bookmark4U Hack: Export to RSS

If you use Bookmark4u (or want to try my installation), you may be interested in exporting your bookmarks to RSS. I know you can import bookmarks to Furl and generate a feed from there, but Furl doesn't maintain your folder hierarchy; it calls everything "Imported Bookmarks." My idea ...

Reinventing the wheel: Intro to RSS

Despite the quality introductions to RSS that are already published on the Web, I took it upon myself to write yet one more. This, Countdown to RSS, the Gateway Technology, is supposed to introduce the casual Web-using instructor to RSS in 15 minutes or less. I haven't tested it ...

Feed2RSS Available

I just finished getting what I think is a working setup of Feed2RSS, provided by Alan Levine. Just paste in the URL of a feed and it generates the javascript code you need to add the headlines to your Web page. A couple of issues I have noticed: ...