Unsubscribe Engadget. Lately it seems that you’ve just been parroting the press releases of every just-announced electronic piece-of-crap and the CES blitz that landed 50 new entries in my RSS reader when I woke up this morning has pushed me over the edge. So long and thanks for all the fish.
I’m not sure where to […]
Tag Archive for 'rss'
Feed Pruning for the New Year
06Jan08What RSS Bandwidth Problem?
01Feb05The so-called RSS Bandwidth Problem is a meme that just won’t frickin’ die. I think Joel Spolsky started it way back in October of 2002, but it may be even older than that. The supposed problem was quickly resolved using Conditional GETs — a scheme that sends a simple 304 Not Modified message back to […]
Distractions
22Aug03My weblog goes future-proof and cruft-free while migrating to a PHP + RSS + XSLT back-end.
Feeds
01Jun03Network World Fushion publishes several interesting weblogs using Movable Type, complete with RSS feeds linked in the <HEAD>.
Finding RSS feeds for their main content isn’t so simple. Burried in the sitemap is a link to their Do It Yourself RSS Feed, which dynamically generates RSS 0.91 feeds based on keywords. Trickier to arrive at is […]
Applying Bayes to Aggregation
09Feb03Last night I went ahead with the rss2email switch, splitting my subscriptions across several instances as a work-around for the problems I had. I’ve tweaked rss2email.py to create some debug output, wrapped all of the instances in a shell script that emails the output to me, and set up a cron job to run four […]
Meg Hourihan spent a month in Paris and learned that broadband isn’t everywhere and dial-up isn’t always cheap. My dial-up bills when I lived in Germany were $250-$350 per month. When DT briefly offered a flat-rate single-channel ISDN Internet plan for about $100/month it seemed like a bargain!
Today, thankfully, we have the technology to make […]
Category RSS Feeds
07Nov02I’ve set up category RSS feeds, check the Topics index. I’ve yet to post anything to most of the categories that people subscribed to on my Radio weblog, so those feeds don’t exist yet. They’ll turn up eventually…
Playing with my RSS
05Nov02“Upgraded” the RSS 0.91 feed to RSS 0.92. Modified it to put the full HTML entry in <description> because that’s the way I like it.
Added <content:encoded> to the RSS 1.0 feed. The RSS 2.0 feed already had it. Both use plain-text exerpts for <description>.
Noticed that NewzCrawler ignores <content:encoded>. Bah.
