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"Jenny Levine" points me to two great RSS info sources -- one that covers events and news in the growing RSS arena, and a new source for over 180 custom RSS feeds. Jenny stays on top of weblog technology for librarians, and as such she's a great source for finding useful information resources.

RSS News by CodingTheWeb.com appears to track news and events in the RSS space, as well as RSS technical developments. It's where Jenny picked up this story. RSSEngine is the source for the custom links. When I went to the site I just got an Under Development screen and had to use the direct feed link instead.

The most interesting (for me) feed in this group of 180 is Editor & Publisher. But the concept of custom feeds really appeals to me -- hence my experiments with "Mark Paschal"'s Stapler.

Unfortunately, I know just enough to get excited, but not enough to do much about it -- my skills with Stapler are still too weak. But I would love to be able to create a set of industry-specific feeds and make them available via my web site. I'll work on this as I have time over the next few months.

Once this catches on though, I'll wager we start to see a lot of silly anti-RSS copyright infringement suits ala the deep linking fiasco now going on (see: "NPR deep-link comedy" and the disappointing NewsBooster vs. the Danish Newspaper Association ruling.

I will never understand how a company can put information out onto an open, public forum, provide a link to that information, and then demand people not use it. Stupid.

RSSEngine.
James Linden is going to town with RSS! He's moving the Snewp feedsto a new location at RSSEngine, which also has its own blog (naturally you can subscribe to it). He's providing 180 feeds right now, including
Editor & Publisher:
http://feed.rssengine.com/editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher.rss
Eurekalert:
http://feed.rssengine.com/eurekalert.org/education.rss
http://feed.rssengine.com/eurekalert.org/socialbehavior.rss
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