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Archive for April 2008

April 16th, 2008

Cherwell and its RSS Feeds

One often hears the phrase a river of information. And indeed most informations flows like a river specially if one were to subscribe to an RSS feed. But what makes bathing or fishing in the river worth it? And it is what is in it. So it is with an RSS feed. And the […]

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April 13th, 2008

RSS Feed to go the Full Monty?

And no I do not mean to strip all the way … not exactly. It has more to do with RSS being truly and exactly copy of a post on the blog. There has been a long and on-going debate whether it was better to have the full text or not. I am of the […]

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April 13th, 2008

Reading RSS feeds can helps journalists

Birmingham City University (UK) School of Media’s Senior Lecturer in Online Journalism and Magazines Paul Bradshaw wrote an interesting article, How to: use RSS and social media for newsgathering, for journalism.co.uk. Bradshaw writes the use of RSS feeds combined with other social media tools can help journalists (i) spot new leads and (ii) put more […]

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April 11th, 2008

SendMeRSS.com

SendMeRSS is a web service in the beta stage that allows users to receive RSS feeds through email. This is done by providing the RSS feed URL and your email. The drive to simplify things is great. See the one minute demo video here.
So what does SendMeRSS do aside from sending RSS feeds via […]

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April 11th, 2008

What is Balluche?

Balluche is a service that will create an RSS feed for any html web page. I stumbled upon this via comment on one of the past posts of A Feed Is Born. The service is one web page that has several fields to be entered in order to make the RSS Feed.
What are the […]

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April 11th, 2008

Toluu and Tris

Tris Hussey is one of our more prolific writers his blog MapleLeaf 2.0 here at b5media , his blog produces a copious number of posts. And at one point I even mistook him for a she. The faux pas that arises from the digital world. I hang my head in shame. Anyway, Tris […]

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April 9th, 2008

May 1 RSS Day?

And this is no April Fool’s joke … belated as it may be. Daily Blogging tips in a post, May 1st RSS Awareness Day: Get Involved, proposes that May 1 be celebrated as RSS Day. This seems to be a good idea and a fine way to spread the gospel of RSS.
But why do the […]

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April 6th, 2008

Quazion an AllTop for Tech News?

Will Quazion be the AllTop for Technology news? According to Quazion’s website at present it has 12,000 readers and has more than 40,000 page views each day. This RSS Reader and Aggregator gets and serves up the latest posts/news from the most widely read and accepted technology blogs [Source].
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April 6th, 2008

Why Endo?

Mac users might be interested in this. Stumbled on this while reading the daily RSS feeds about RSS feeds. From the developers of the MacOSX desktop blogging client Ecto comes the RSS reader and aggregator Endo. But what is Endo?
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April 6th, 2008

A list of RSS tools

Rachel Goldstein at All Design Web Blog wrote a very helpful post, Turn HTML Web Sites into RSS Feeds - 20 Tools & Converters for HTML to RSS Conversions. The posts lists down several services that can create an RSS feed for any website.
But why is it a good read?
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