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Tuesday, January 14, 2003
 

finding RSS feeds


Outlog.org provides...

a few links for finding rss feeds:
My subscriptions
asdf.dk - list of danish feeds
newsisfree.com
syndic8.com
myrss.com - create your own rss feeds for ANY site

to which list I add,

BlogStreet.com's RSSdiscovery
http://markpasc.org/code/stapler/  (create your own rss feeds for any site)

and (at daybreak), Mike Axelrod adds

Moreover.com


6:48:28 PM    

About myRSS


"myRSS allows you to create your own RSS feed for any news-oriented website. You don't need to know how to program or understand any of the XML and RDF incantations to get RSS to work. Simply type in the address of the page you want the feed produced from and let myRSS do all the work automatically. Your feed will be instantly available and better still you can use it for almost any purpose for free (read more in our terms of service).

You don't have to limit yourself to the big news sites either. How about keeping tabs on a competitor's activity; being instantly informed of new career opportunities; or making sure your collection is up to date."

However, their page inviting you to Create Your Own Channel urges,

 before you go any further are you absolutely sure that the website you're about to create a channel for doesn't already have one? The best place to check is Syndic8, a directory of just about every channel in existance. Please search Syndic8 before creating your channel here as any channel hand-produced by the website themselves is likely to be better quality and more reliable than any produced by one of our robots.

Now, surely, added to this service (or front-ended to it) should be one that checks with Syndic8 (and/or other such services) before creating a new channel.  And if Syndic8 has the channel, that's the RSS feed myRSS should provide.  (oh hear my plea, Lazyweb)


6:08:41 PM    

Welcome Internet Topic Exchange .


Welcome  Internet Topic Exchange .  Among the few channels  in existence so far is Social Software.   Here's the essence of the system (which is likely to be a significant addition to the "blogosystem")

To post to this channel, click here or ping the URL http://topicexchange.com/t/social_software/ with your TrackBack-enabled blogging tool.

Now if I understand this correctly (followup: AND IT TURNS OUT I DID NOT), because I installed Simon Fell's Radio pingback tool the other day, this post should show up on the Social Software channel just by virtue of the fact that I cite it.  PINGBACK <> TRACKBACK

(Speaking of not understanding...someone who understands this better than I should create a glossary/ table: 
  rows would be pingback, pingforward, trackback, and all the other variants proliferating right now
  columns would be definition explanation implementation / platform. )

see also http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/2003/01/14.html#a962 
and http://www.rayners.org/archives/000138.php#000138 for postforward and commentback (which may or may not be the same as comeback)

 


6:04:03 PM    

Blogosystem: a meme was born.


I thought I might have coined a promising meme a minute ago but google indicates (as of now) that the word has been used once before on the web--in a post by Charles Johnson on the "Little Green Footballs" weblog  (below).  Apparently the meme hasn't spread yet, but I think it will.  You heard it here second.

5/28/2002: the blogosystem

John Hiler analyzes the blog/media relationship in one of the best articles Iíve seen about weblogs: Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem.


4:10:36 PM    


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