RadioExpress, K-collector, liveTopics
an older post I missed...

Roland Tanglao's Weblog: Friday, May 30, 2003: "[HELP] Want to make Radio Express work with K-Collector

Now that I have got K-Collector working, I'd like to enable it from RadioExpress. I imagine it's a one line fix or at most a few lines. I'm willing to code it if somebody tells me what line to insert in the RadioExpress file. Anybody?"

Ok -- here's a version which uses the builtin website homepage posting form; which will recognize the necessary callbacks for K-collector, or liveTopics.

Download this. Install in www/system/pages/radioExpress.txt and configure here.
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RSSDistiller
This is one under recognized vital software. Quietly humming under the hood, I rely on it heavily for filling the HTML-XML gap. Working with screen scrapers is always an iffy maintenance proposition, though Paolo explains well the process for the non-initiated.

Engaging sites to create their own RSS feeds is ideal, but I want my RSS now. Would be nice to have a more community oriented, distributed effort, at scraping and maintaining "pre-RSS" feeds. I also heavily rely on the straining NewsIsFree syndicator. Here's the list of my RSSDistiller feeds. No guarantees these will update regularly.

• Burn It Blue Top electronic music site [html]
• this is Brighton & Hove News [html]
• Craigslist SF -- Internet Engineering jobs [html]
• Craigslist SF -- Software Engineering jobs [html]
• Duece of Clubs funny stories about phone booths [html]
• Edge big thinkers [html]
• Flipdog SF software search [html]
• The Memory Hole where did that news go? [html]
• Muxway Joshua Schachter's quick links [html]
• Norra Vasterbotten far North Sweden news [html]
• Rathergood viking kittens updates [html]
• San Francisco Bicycle Coalition [html]
• SF Station local events [html]
• Bruce Sterling [html]
• transportation for a livable city SF urban transport [html]
• Volunteermatch sf volunteer opportunities [html]
• William Gibson [html]
• x-entertainment 80s pop culture [html]

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Modifying the aggregator
Steve Kirks asks: "If anyone has seen some previous Radio work with modifying the aggregator, specificially the layout, I'd appreciate hearing about it.
[house of warwick]

Well, how about Mike Maron's nifty MyRadio tool? It does a pretty good job at providing some additional features:

• Custom feed groups in separate page views
• Custom newsViews: i.e. Userland, MyYahoo or activeRenderer view
• ENT 1.0 topics filtering
• Scraping modules for quotes, ebay, weather, fedex & Newseum Today's Front Pages

While it is still in active development and could do with a bit of polish, MyRadio is a mature and effective extension of Radio's basic aggregator feature set. In short, good value!

(UPDATE: I had to repost this (completely - delete and repost) due to an upstreaming glitch - I think I've found a scenario that upsets Radio's upstreaming - first I need to reproduce it, though, before posting about it) 
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Yahoo News RSS feeds
A page with XML coffee mug signup links to the new Yahoo News RSS feeds. If you have Radio UserLand running, just click a mug to subscribe to a feed.
By lawrence@userland.com (Lawrence Lee). [UserLand Product News] 
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