Tuesday, September 24, 2002

Yahoo Finance RSS feeds. A couple of months ago, I encouraged Jeremy Zawodny to check out the blog scene. I knew he'd flourish in the environment, and guessed it might have some interesting effects on Yahoo!Finance where Jeremy works. Sure enough, check out this wonderful hack: ... [Jon's Radio] 10:55:35 AM

I've created an RSS newsfeed for the Google Sci/Tech news.  You can find it here.  It could be better.  My attempt took three minutes to put together.  The only hard part is picking out the repeatable HTML at the start and end of each story section.  I did this with eVector's RSSdistiller tool (all you need to do is download it, unzip it, put the unzipped file into Radio's tool folder, restart Radio, and register the product at the prompt).  It has a 30-day free trial.  You can build feeds for yourself and publish/share the feeds you create.  If you have any suggestions as to a better set of start and end points for the stories at Google, let me know.  Here is Paolo's tutorial for doing this yourself. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 10:46:07 AM

Channelroll bugfix, RSS continuity. Yesterday my channelroll broke, and began displaying the message: The server returned a SOAP-ENV:Client fault: Can't create item "." because "" is an illegal name. I think I've seen this happen on other sites, but I never got the chance to figure out what it meant until it happened to me. Here's the explanation, and the fix. ... [Jon's Radio] 10:28:36 AM