Tuesday, December 10, 2002

RSS Feeding Frenzy I'll have to keep an eye on this. It follows with my desire to have a news aggregator I can use on my wireless PDA. It makes sense to to have a server that's online all the time and access it with the PDA. I wonder if I can come up with a theme for Radio that's PDA friendly but still displays decently on a standard screen. Supposedly I can do it with CSS and XML. We'll see how far I get before I'm distracted by another neat idea. RSS Coolness RSS Feeds for Online Library Technology Journals "RSS feeds for online library technology journals: Ed Summers has recently created RSS feeds for D-Lib and Ariadne. The RSS feeds are available at: http://www.inkdroid.org/rss/ariadne.xml http://www.inkdroid.org/rss/dlib.xml (Thanks, Ed!)" [Chi Lib Rocks!] And check out this very cool script that Devon Smith created to display various RSS feeds on a web page. To view the contents of a feed, click on its name. On the client side, it does require Javascript, while on the server side it requires XML::RSS, CGI and LWP::Simple. Devon even provides a link to download the source code. This is a very basic version of the aggregation of Library System headlines I want to implement in our forthcoming grant software. You can see something a bit closer to what I want at ReadingEd.com. To view it in action, click on any link in the right-hand column that has an exclamation point after the name. [first spotted by Phil Ringnalda, via Too Much News] [The Shifted Librarian] 11:56:09 AM