Easy-to-build RSS feeds on any subject
Using the excellent and free features of AnyRSS and Feedburner you can create a feed on just about any topic in a few seconds and with no bandwidth cost because of subscriptions. This is one I created as a demo.
Preview the Welsh Culture feed here - you just need a browser.
Scott Rafer of Feedster, talking about which companies get RSS and syndication, suggests that companies (Amazon?) could start selling books as serials through RSS.
Zeldman links to our remarks about the Welsh Assembly website.
But other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play?
Well, it boosted traffic for a bit.
The Welsh Assembly is redeveloping its website. A check of the new homepage shows that:
A post on how to tell the blogging software from the URL cruft.
Some advice on making URLs a bit more friendly, in addition to clearing out that cruft:
Juicy Studio has published a bit of a rant about accessibility standards and their failure to encompass people with learning difficulties and the like. The article makes the mistake of accusing accessibility expert Joe Clark of doublethink. Joe responds and says,
We can make Web sites that work with no vision, no hearing, or no movement, or even none of the above. We cannot make a Web site work with no cognition.
— Signal Vs Noise, All hours are not created equal
California, here I come
Right back where I started from.
Where bowers of flowers bloom in the spring.
Each morning at dawning,
Birdies sing an’ everything.
A sun-kissed miss said, ‘Don’t be late’
That’s why I can hardly wait.
Open up that Golden Gate,
California here I come.
RSS feeds and other syndication formats are becoming common and using an aggregator like NetNewsWire, Sharpreader or Bloglines is an easy way to keep up-to-date with your favourite websites without having to visit all of them every day. But what if you want that RSS content on your own website? Here’s a very simple way to reuse RSS weather information from www.rssweather.com with PHP.
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