The Shifted Librarian - Shifting Libraries at the speed of byte
 Monday, June 17, 2002

Catching Up On RSS News

  • "agmweb.ca allows you to search 7 online book stores for books and prices. All information is available in XML-RPC and RSS feeds for you to syndicate on your site." You can also browse a category at Amazon and have the top 15 titles thrown into your aggregator!
     
  • "Search for RSS in Google - This may be old news to some, but you can limit a google search to RSS and XML files. I knew about PDF, DOC, and the rest, butdidn't realize that these two were possible. This is another good way to find new feeds on a certain topic. For example, here is a search for "technology". Not many results, but worth a mention (Thanks Pete for the submission)." [Library Stuff]
     
  • "This afternoon, I created two more feeds that will only work for users of AmphetaDesk. These are the feeds which look like a picture of a Prozac pill on them. The first one will automatically subscribe AmphetaDesk users to my feed just by clicking on it (Remember to have AmphetaDesk running). The second feed (and neatest by far), will automatically subscribe AmphetaDesk users to every feed that I currently subscribe to (about 77 at this point) and (get this), will take out all the duplicates. Enjoy them." [Library Stuff]
     
  • "Turn the simple tech of RSS aggregators into Daily News Readers. Make weblog tools that don't rely on a writer's knowledge of outlines, permalinks, the word 'blog', or RSS feeds." [kottke.org]
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Nanoschmooze in Mountain View

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"Thursday June 20, 6:30pm
Ristorante Don Giovanni
235 Castro Street (between Villa and Dana)
Mountain View CA
Driving Directions

rsvp: 1-650-917-1122" [a klog apart]

Phil, how did you create the vcs file??!! I've wanted to learn how to automatically generate these in our online calendar at work, but I don't know enough about vCalendar.

Imagine these puppies flowing through your news aggregator at work!

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