Dear Log And Everyone,
What sorts of uses do people use RSS feeds for?
Only things I know of are:
- Showing up as a box in your kustom homepage on Slash or whatever.
- Little ticker programs that scroll headlines.
- Infobot factoids can get the content of RSS feeds.
RSS examples
autarch on 2002-02-25T00:41:12
jobs.perl.org publishes an RSS feed for various types of jobs (all jobs, mod_perl jobs, or Mason jobs). We take the Mason jobs and display them (in a box
;) at www.masonhq.com.
Semantic web
jjohn on 2002-02-25T00:52:54
Over at
XML.com, Tim Bray lays out the 411 on RDF/RSS. It's all about making content self documenting, which leads to a recursion catastrophe: self-documenting self-documentation. With all the documentation out there, we might be getting low on readers. I like RSS files and wish more web sites would use them. I phear topic maps and think they're doomed to failure. I built a small program with IBM's viavoice text-to-speech SDK that creates an mp3 spoken word version of the RSS file. Cats are furry...
RSS and meerkat
gnat on 2002-02-25T01:37:34
Meerkat is an RSS aggregator for tech stuff. It's like a daily newspaper.
--Nat
RSS and email
koschei on 2002-02-25T01:56:14
I use RSS feeds from a variety of sites (including a selection from Meerkat, as mentioned by gnat) to compose a custom news email every 4 hours.
One program goes and updates the various RSS files, another checks which entries are new and emails them to me.
I suspect it's partly based on one of Merlyn's Web Techniques articles.
Re: RSS
kingubu on 2002-02-25T04:01:07
I have a little Perl IRC bot based on the DiaWebLogBot that's a fun toy for maintaining a community Weblog. Folks paste URL's into the IRC channel and can then add a title, comments, etc. The output is RSS 1.0 (which I transform to a friendly HTML page via XSLT inside AxKit).
-ubu
