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Updated: 9/3/2003; 8:31:41 PM.

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Sunday, August 10, 2003

Transforming XML Into RSS.
For .NET developers: "My previous article, 'Translating RSS With XSLT,' went over the steps of changing RSS into HTML. In this article I will discuss the ability to convert XML into RSS using XSLT. You may be thinking, 'Why would I want to do that?.' With the example in this article, I hope to answer that question."
By chris@pirillo.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
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Just in case you missed it: Phil Wolff -- scaling syndication in the blogosphere (I think he is off by an order of magnitude, but the concept is sound). Basically, the only way out is P2P (to handle large payloads) and feed portals (feedster, Google, etc. to help people make sense of it all). [John Robb's Weblog]
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Is streamripping illegal?.
Some folks on #joiito turned me onto "streamripping". This is software that stores songs played on Internet radio stations as mp3's with meta data and everything. RadioLover is streamripping software for the Mac that lets you record multiple radio stations in parallel. You can drag and drop the songs into iTunes and sync to the iPod. The quality seems fine. I can listen to my favorite radio stations from all over the world when I'm walking in the park with my iPod. Is this illegal? It is SOOO useful it MUST be illegal. ;-p

UPDATE: For the record, I've just bought several albums on Apple's Music Store and Amazon that I didn't know about until I started messing around with RadioLover.
By Joichi Ito jito@neoteny.com. [Joi Ito's Web]
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