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InfoWorld Trials RSS-Based Advertising: I was contemplating this the other day. What happens when people start spamming RSS feeds? "InfoWorld's simple solution is to make one of the headlines in its RSS feed an advertisement, noted as such via parentheses at the beginning of the link. Readers can click on ...

Lockergnome's RSS Resource: Chris Pirillo has started a site about all things RSS. Via Adam Kalsey.

RSS" href="http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/index.html">The New York Times : RSS: The New York Times is now offering RSS feeds.

Open Directory Search - Custom RSS Feed Generator: Someone has hooked up RSS to DMOZ search. This tool generates a custom RSS Feed of Open Directory search results for the search term entered...

USATODAY.com: USAToday has an impressive list of RSS feeds.

US-CERT RSS Channels: The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team uses RSS. US-CERT publishes a number of XML RSS 1.0 format files containing headlines about recently published US-CERT documents, including Technical Alerts, Alerts, Bulletins, and Tips.

RSS in Government: Arkansas Government eNewsroom: This is encouraging. Arkansas has joined the growing number of states syndicating agency produced headlines for its citizenry using RSS. The Arkansas Government eNewsRoom is a news portal featuring a RSS 0.91 feed that indexes news releases in PDF format. I saw a bit ...

DevX RSS Feeds: I'm not sure how new or old these are.

RSS for RFPs: Here's a great use of RSS. Utah's Division of Purchasing has an RSS feed of current solicitations. This is an RSS version of the current bids page. Of course, the good news is that if you're interested in following Utah RFPs and know how to use an ...

One of the upcoming goals I have for DeaneBarker.net is an RSS channel. RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" (or "Rich Site Summary," depending on who you ask) and is a way for other programs and sites to display things from this site without actually coming here. (I know, I ...

Federated Media and Pheedo have struck a deal to provide ads in Gadgetopia s RSS feed. They re fairly unobtrusive, and will only appear on one in four posts. This post, therefore, is nothing but a notice and a place to vent. I know some of you have strong opinions about ads ...

Scripting News "On Tuesday, July 15, UserLand Software transferred its copyright in the RSS 2.0 spec to Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. This addresses one of the major concerns about RSS 2.0, that it was published by one of the competitors in the RSS application ...

Wired News: You can now subscribe to searches of Wired.com via RSS. Go to their site, search for something, then click the RSS link at the top. Add that URL to your aggregator.

RollingStone.com: Rolling Stone has an RSS feed. Huh. Look in the upper right corner of the home page.

Morphing Blogs to Business: This guy has evidently had a lot of time on his hands since selling Allaire to Macromedia. Imagine firmware updates via RSS. "Jeremy Allaire, technologist in residence at General Catalyst Partners LLC, in Cambridge, Mass., and former chief technology officer at Macromedia Inc., has drafted ...

Feedster :: RSS Search Engine: Good for these guys. I've heard nothing but good things about them both: "Feedster, LLC developer of the award winning Feedster weblog search today announced that it had merged with RSS-Search, a Salem, Massachusetts based producer of a similar search technology. The engineering staff and ...

ESV Bible RSS Feed: You can get a verse of the day or specify a verse in the URL.

BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution: Here's on interesting look at combining P2P with RSS to provided distributed RSS feeds using BitTorrent. RSS consumers also become distributors, and future consumers simply grab the nearest available feed instead of taxing the source for it. ...the more popular the feed, the more ...

Icons: It's still orange: IE7 is going to use the Firefox icon for RSS. This may seem like a small thing, but was when the last time Microsoft (and the IE group in particular) ever said, "Hey, there's a good standard already out there. Let's embrace it." I'm frankly amazed ...

Rename RSS! A CONTENTIOUS Contest: Given the war they had over the fate of the spec, this should go over like a lead ballon. Amy Gahran, creator of the weblog CONTENTIOUS, is offering a contest to select a catchier name for RSS – ideally something that will spark the public ...

XHTML Validator to RSS : Ben Hammersley: Oh my goodness, this is brilliant. ...I like nice to-do lists and automatic checking of my pages. So to combine the two, I've made a widget to create a XHTML Validation Results RSS feed from any page. I now have an RSS feed ...

Wikipedia Article Revisions Now RSS Enabled: No one will change my page on Oceanic Airlines without my knowledge again. Wikipedia has added RSS feeds to the 1.25 million entries in the encyclopedia. This means you can now more easily track the revision history for important articles, such as those about ...

Lockergnome's RSS Resource: Adam Kalsey is writing a series over at LockerGnome's RSS site about optimizing RSS feeds. He makes this good point: "Since most people read feeds through an aggregator or some sort, feed requests are typically made in an automated fashion by software, whether the feed has been ...

The guys over at Reinvented had a really quick thought that got some gears turning in my head. XHTML...is valid XML. And valid XML can be tranformed via XSLT into...different XML. RSS is XML. So, if someone has a well-formed XHTML site, you can publish an RSS feed of their ...

Scripting News: Dave Winer, creator of RSS, is immersed in a continuing battle over the blogging standard and the Echo project. I still can't figure the whole dispute out, but Winer is apparently upset that people are trying to re-write RSS...or something. I don't know, but Winer is a smart, ...

Google AdSense for RSS running at Weblogs, Inc.: This is gonna be big. With screencap. In case you didn’t notice, some of your favorite Weblogs, Inc. blogs now have Google AdSense in the RSS feeds. Of course, I'm just trying to trick people anyway.

Combining two of my current favorite things, Apple has added an RSS Generator to the iTunes Music Store. You can now custom build a feed based upon the genre(s) that interest you and if they are new releases, just added, etc... Pretty cool use of RSS. Via MacNN

What effect does RSS have on the commenting and discussion of blog entries? Take Mr. Foo and Mr. Bar. They are identical in every way, except Mr. Foo visits Gadgetopia.com a couple of times a day, while Mr. Bar just monitors the site via RSS. Who's more likely to comment ...

Genecast: A very smooth idea. Convert RSS feeds into Usenet-compatible newsgroups so people with NNTP readers (like Outlook Express) can view them by monitoring the "newsgroup." I'm beginning to think RSS is simply private Usenet anyway. (I do, however, have to question the intelligence of using a sperm as your ...

McGee's Musings: I can SO relate to this guy: "...I just checked, and I am currently subscribed to 236 news sources in Radio's aggregator. I rarely surf to these sites and don't particularly care what stories look like in context. I get annoyed with sites that don't provide a full ...

RSSJobs Home "RSSJobs allows you to create and save searches for Monster, Dice, HotJobs,and more in one locaion, then delivers the results to your favorite RSS Reader."

Payloads for RSS: A long time ago (in Internet time), there was a short-lived start-up called LoadTV. You installed the LoadTV viewer, subscribed to some channels which had content you wanted to see, and it downloaded full-motion video in the background all day long. The best part was that whatever ...

Enclosure Extractor: For $14.95, you too can have viruses delivered via RSS. "Enclosure Extractor allows you to easily extract and download enclosures from newsfeeds. The bulk of feed readers do not support enclosures fully. Enclosure Extractor fills this gap by letting you enter a newsfeed (either a single RSS file ...

I was playing around with NewsMonster today, and in doing this, I stumbled upon an obvious difference between NewsGator and other aggregators. NewsGator creates an independent object in Outlook for each entry it gets off an RSS feed. The object (an Outlook post object) is no longer tied to the ...

Battle of the blog: If you have no idea what the "Great RSS War of 2003" is all about, this article should explain about everything. "'The reason the core is frozen is to keep the developers from screwing with it. RSS is simple,' Winer said. 'They want to make it ...

I've subscribed to a new RSS feed that's injecting styles into posts each post is surrounded by a FONT tag that makes the text Arial, instead of the default Times New Roman that Outlook (I use NewsGator) would render in if not for the tag. I always felt that ...

I got an ad in an eWeek RSS feed this morning. It was prefaced with the "ADV:" notice and everything. It was offering a whitepaper about thin clients. "Sponsored by Wyse Technology." Interesting.

Here's another rss feed to add to your favorite aggregator: Ebay2RSS. I couldn't get the first option to work, but if you copy the search url from Ebay into the second part it will create an rss feed for the item you are searching for. The url does get a ...

The Wide Wild World of Gund Stuffed Animals presented by Bear St.: I went to this site to buy a bear for my wife's birthday (sh-h-h-h-h). Lo and behold, there's an XML icon on the front page advertising their RSS feed. I checked the feed, and they announce a new ...

Hot RSS [dive into mark]: Mark Pilgrim has a pretty funny post where he subtly and effectively slams CNet for creating a new RSS format, incompatible with any current newsreader. OK, now we're grooving. instead of , instead of ,

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We've been having a discussion about follow-up posts. One of the points we mentioned was that comments to an existing post get overlooked by people visiting the site, and people using the RSS feed get no comments at all. So, to this end, let's try this a second RSS ...

Here's an idea that credit card companies should implement: an RSS feed of your credit purchases, in real-time. Basically have an RSS feed of every authorization on your credit card(s), as they happen. My wife always wants me to keep receipts, but I always lose them or send them through ...

patrickWeb: This looks like a good weblog from a retired big-wig at IBM. I post it because it's an example of a site that, regrettably, I will likely never see again due to the lack of an RSS feed. I looked in every corner of this site, and was quite ...

Oddpost: Learn More: More competition for NewsGator. This is from the latest release of OddPost: Oddpost's integrated RSS client delivers all the latest news and blog entries straight to your mailbox. Receive posts from your favorite blogs moments after they're published.

Question: do any of you subsribe to blogs that don't publish the entire post in RSS? USA Today just added Kevin Maney to their new blog lineup. I subscribed, but he just has the first two sentences or something in RSS and you have to click-through for the rest. That ...

A couple of months ago, we had a problem with a company that reprinted our posts in full, surrounded by their ads. It was a drag, but it seemed to stop right after that post (but not before they mocked our outrage a bit). I noticed this today on a ...

I'm going to kill the individual entry comment RSS feeds. They're not getting used much, and they mean double the files when we rebuild. With 4,600 entries, this becomes a problem. (Additionally, something has gone weird somewhere because the fourth most requested page on this site is the comments RSS ...

If you need another diversion during the day, Tapestry might be what you are looking for. Tapestry is a series of RSS feeds for online comics. They help you keep up to date from within your favourite news aggregator, especially if you happen to miss a few days. Enjoy.

I think it's time to address content usability in RSS feeds. I subscribe to about 100 feeds, and I run through postings really quick, either hitting the Delete key (thanks Newsgator!) or the down arrow to move to the next item (when I've looked at them all, I go back ...

In case you're sick of my inane blathering about every topic under the sun in your RSS reader, I've created individual feeds for each category, so you can just subscribe to what you want, like spam, content management, etc. The feed icon is the top of each category page.

One Way to Take Aggregators Mainstream: Some great thoughts about RSS aggregator adoption. "I think some of this can come from libraries, much the way we teach internet classes now. I mean, seriously - who exactly do you think is going to introduce aggregators to the public at large? If ...

RSS extensions: The inventor of NewsGator shows us some of the really cool things you can do with it. ...you can define whatever extension you like, and NewsGator will be able to use it in one way of another. Let's explore how this works, and what you can do...you can ...

RSS News Readers Browse for You: PC Mag reviewed aggregators. FeedDemon and NewsGator came out on top. Regarding NewsGator: "Don't underestimate the convenience factor here. With the other news readers, you have to open a separate application. Most business users will agree that having the news feeds directly in Outlook ...

Apparently RSS 2.0 came out last fall and I missed it. Great improvements over the earlier specs (was there ever a 1.0? Seems like we went from 0.92 to 2.0....). You can tell aggregators to skip certain hours and certain days when you know you won't be updating, you can ...

My content, my readers, my numbers, damnit: Here's a funny rant that points out a very real problem: it's virtually impossible to figure out how many people are subscribed to your RSS feed because of feed aggregators and cachers. If you took a song and cached it and fed it ...

Google Data APIs Overview: All your RSS are belong to Google (that joke never gets old...). GData is a new protocol based on Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0. To acquire information from a service that supports GData, you send an HTTP GET request; the service returns results as an Atom ...

MailBucket: I tried it, and it worked. "MailBucket is an experiment in alternative methods of email management. For now its only feature is a public email-to-RSS gateway: forward your email to slurp@mailbucket.org and have your news reader pick it up at mailbucket.org/slurp.xml (where you choose slurp, having checked that it's ...

While I was hanging out at the hospital waiting for the new addition, I got to wondering if RSS has to be "pull" by definition. Could you "push" updates from a site to a client? Say you have a notification client a little app that sits on your desktop. ...

It struck me last night that there are two models of RSS aggregation: "real-time" and "stored" (yes, I just made those two terms up...). Real-time are aggregators like Mozilla's Sage extension. This model goes and gets the feed real time and displays it on-demand. In a lot of ways, they're ...

New York Times" href="http://backend.userland.com/directory/167/feeds/newYorkTimes">Feeds > New York Times: With all this talk about news aggreagators, now you just need some high-quality news to aggregate. Here you go.

Let's get ready, now: This is a little look into what's shaping up as a political battle over RSS. Apparently the major blog systems can't settle on a standard, and Dave Winer has a brutal (yet probably accurate) explanation on how Bill Gates is going to use this to his ...

Wired News: Aggregators Attack Info Overload: Wired has a good introduction to RSS for those that aren't using it yet. "Some even say the emergence of the aggregator is the best thing since a visual Web browser. 'It's going to subsume e-mail and subsume many forms of publicity,' said Steve ...

The FuzzyBlog :: Scott Johnson's Blog: A very good point about the new Atom / Echo / Whatever-The-Next-Name-Is spec: it will support images and other media as blog postings. This opens up a ton of issues, which Scott explains.

Since everyone but the janitor started blogging at Microsoft, they've been aggregating their blogs into one big honkin' feed that I call The Fire Hose, since reading it is like trying to drink from a fire hose. I find some interesting stories occasionally, but I probably missed 50 since I ...

Today in the sky: Here's another interesting example of a USA Today blog. It's about air travel, of all things. Ben Mutzabaugh posts at least a dozen things a day about airlines. He seems awfully well informed. Now, I'm not interested in the subject, but I'm curious about the evolution ...

dodgeit - free. receive-only. email. no set up. rss.: This is a lot like Mailinator, with an RSS angle. The trouble is that eventually these domains are going to become well-known, and Web forms may start rejecting them since they know they're not real. Pick a throwaway address, say: deeznuts@dodgeit.com. ...

I recently created an account at BlogStreet's Info Aggregator. With this I'm able to get my favorite RSS feeds delivered via email. "Info Aggregator is an RSS-to-IMAP service. It lets you receive and read RSS feeds in your favourite mail client. It delivers all the latest news and blog posts ...

The more I work with content management, the more I find that major architectural considerations are big indicators of how happy you're going to be developing with any given CMS. These are not specific, detailed functional questions ("does the system automatically generate RSS"). While those are important as well (see ...

The guy from Awasu pointed out a great thing to me: Feedster, and more specifically the ability to subscribe to a search on Feedster as an RSS feed. Go to Feedster, and search for something. When the results page comes up, click the white-on-orange XML icon for the ...

The Future of RSS: This isn't a bad idea. I want a new type of RSS, and I'd call it RSE (pronounced Rizzy), or Really Simple Events. It would be a method for anyone, anywhere, to publish a feed that has events in it. Then, I'd have a RSE Aggregator ...

Really Simple Sharing: Microsoft has released an "extension" to RSS called "Simple Sharing Extensions," with the idea of making RSS two-way, so applications can sync themselves up. The first use is intended to be for distributed calendaring applications. There are many great item synchronization mechanisms out there (and at Microsoft), ...

Aggregators that automatically download web pages: Some people have made the request that NewsGator download the "target" page of a blog posting so disconnected users can have the content too. Greg has a good discussion of the implications. So we're caught between doing what the publisher wants (driving a click-through), ...

NewsGator buys syndication rival: Huh. Newsgator bought FeedDemon. I think these two are the best client-side (as opposed to Web-based) aggregators on the market right now NewsGator is near-perfect integration into Outlook, and FeedDemon is IMHO the best standalone RSS client. NewsGator plans to distribute Bradbury's products, including FeedDemon ...

Six Log: Why We Need Echo: Ben Trott's reasons why we need to re-write RSS: "...can't we just make these improvements to RSS? And that's the problem: we really can't. Setting aside any of the political issues because, for this initiative to be accepted, it needs to be done ...

Pageviews are Obsolete: It's about time that this point is evangelized. Page views are a fairly pointless measurement these days with the advent of Ajax, RSS, and widely varying site designs which can have dramatic effects on how "hungry" a site is for page view stats. But Ajax is only ...

Is it just me, or does RSS suck all the mystery and joy out of the Web? Does it make the whole concept of "sufing the Web" just a little more disappointing than it used to be? Once or twice during the course of an evening, I'll tell my wife ...

I use Thunderbird exclusively at home for mail and RSS feeds. It feels lightweight and it does everything I need it to (I don't schedule many meetings outside of work so I don't miss a calendar, for instance). But there are a few things about this application that really irk ...

PageTrack - An easy alternative to RSS?: Interesting concept. PageTrack is an easy way to keep track of web pages at home and at work. Unlike an RSS reader, PageTrack monitors whole web pages. By opening the pages in the user's default browser, PageTrack allows the user to take maximum ...

NewsGator - the RSS news aggregator for Outlook: Do you find yourself checking the same sites many times a day for updates? Ever wish the operators could be so nice as to email you when they add something? Well, now they can...sorta. NewsGator is an add-in for Outlook that checks ...

I've been hunting a decent RSS aggregator for Linux for some time. Liferea and Straw refresh at the speed of smell, and Sage (for FireFox) is the only RSS aggregator I know of that doesn't aggregate. AKregator does the trick. Ragica over on KDE-apps sez: A nice clean sensible RSS ...

FeedDemon: You want to know something sad? This is what I was trying to download when I got TopStyle. I was pre-occupied with something else, I clicked the first download link I found, then installed the file and ran it before I realized it wasn't a news aggregator... But, anyway, ...

Feed Crier :: RSS and Atom Feeds by instant message: Adam Kalsey needs to sleep more. Feed Crier is your instant news reader. Subscribe to any RSS feed using your AOL Instant Messenger account. Waiting for an aggregator to update is so 2005.

Microsoft SQL Server: Notification Services Product Overview: It strikes me that this would integrate RSS publishing directly into the database server, without needing a Web server as middleware. Organizations can send focused, relevant communications to their customers and employees. These notifications can contain links back to the organization's Web site ...

Filter RSS with Feed Rinse: I haven't tried this yet, but it's pretty notable for us because it's from a Sioux Falls company -- Electric Pulp. If you've got unruly RSS feeds, we've got your back. Feed Rinse is an easy to use tool that lets you automatically filter out ...

Yahoo! News Search via RSS: Jeremy has reverse-engineered how to get a Yahoo! RSS feed based on a keyword. You have to come up with a funky URL to do it, and he's graciously put just such a funky URL creator on his Web site.

The Big Announcement: PopHeadlines 1.0.0.1 is here!: Newsgator has competition. We didn't think it would take long PopHeadlines is a RSS-to-POP3 gateway. This is immensely useful. It allows you to receive posts from various RSS feeds in exactly the same way you retrieve your email.

Well, this will probably be the last entry of 2004. This year we posted 1,530 entries and you posted 2,962 (!) comments. As the comment count should verify, Gadgetopia went buckwild this year. According to Google Adsense, we push about 100,000 page views a month to the HTML version (and ...

Is it Christmas?: There s RSS if you need it.

I just unsubscribed from the Freakonomics blog feed, and that bums me out. I loved the book, but the simple fact is that the feed sucked. Two problems: Bad: They only put abbreviated parts of the feed in each post. So you couldn t read the whole thing in your feedreader, ...

Steve Jobs just wrapped up his keynote at this year's World Wide Developer Conference and aside from the 30-inch Cinema HD Display the primary focus of his talk was Tiger, the next generation of OS X due in 2005. Some highlights of Tiger include: Spotlight - A new search utility ...

Why Did We Invest in NewsGator?: Here's a post from a venture capitalist about why he invested in NewsGator. The misperception is that NewsGator is only an Outlook plug-in. While the most popular product from NewsGator is currently their Outlook-based aggregator, what really turned us on when we dug into ...

Today s post is about load-bearing walls in content management those things that require a content editor to call a developer to change them. Where do you draw the boundaries? How much is too much? Like yesterday, if you’re looking at this in RSS, you can (1) visit the ...

Edgeio: Taking Listings to the Edge: Edgeio is apparrently a sort of distributed classifieds system that scavanges your RSS feed for stuff to sell. If you are selling something and you own an RSS enabled website, it is just a matter of writing a classified ad and posting it on ...

The folks over at mozilla.org have been busy: New Firefox Release 1.0PR includes Live Bookmarks, which creates a bookmarks folder out of an RSS feed, and a really slick interface for finding text in a page. It does disable some older extensions, though, so look out. My main gripe is ...

Sometime today, the main RSS feed will be redirected into a byzantive series of channels and will pop out at Feedburner. We're using their MyBrand service, so the actual feed address now is: http://rss.gadgetopia.com/gadgetopia Through MyBrand, they will actually enter you in their DNS, so that URL actually points to ...

(Note: If you re reading this in RSS, it refers to an audio widget only available on the HTML side. Click the post title to go to the page which contains the widget.) Okay, here s the first one. I hope it goes well. (And I m purposely not calling this a ...

This post is about three questions you have to answer before you can even go looking for a CMS. The answers to these questions will drastically narrow the pool of systems you can select from. (On an editorial note, my level of comfort with these audio posts is decreasing. ...

RSScache.com: Here's a free service to cache your RSS feed which we've talked about here and here. This site subscribes to your RSS feed, then translates that into a much narrower one for dissemination to end users. Users subscribe to the feed through this site, instead of through your actual ...

A few weeks ago I finally took the plunge and purchased an iPod. I'm a little late to the party, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate how this little device has changed my appreciation and usage of the music I have owned for years. Even before my little prize ...

Here's one that should whet Deane's recently acquired appetite for BitTorrenting TV Shows. Torrentocracy is a plugin for MythTV that will let you download and watch BitTorrent-delivered multimedia via your TV remote by hooking into RSS feeds. This would basically turn a MythTV-enabled TV into a Tivo that doesn't care ...

freebiddingtools.com Create your own RSS feed for your favourite eBay search... How handy! From Lockergnome.

This audio post revisits The Four Disciplines of Content Management from last November. I add quite a bit, and elaborate on a lot of the points, and babble on and on about content management. Whether or not that s a good thing is all a matter of perspective. (There s about ...

Press Release - NewsGator Online Services...: I was one of the beta testers for Newsgator 2.0. I can finally vouch that it's a stunning piece of work, since I've been under an NDA for the last two months. In addition to launching NewsGator 2.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) ...

FDML: At O'Reilly's recent Foo Camp, some bloggers started fleshing out an idea for RSS feed self-discovery. Kind of like WDSL for RSS you can get an XML document that explains all the feeds that a particular site offers. "A working name for this effort is 'FDML.' The stands ...

Weblogs Compendium - RSS Readers: Big 'ol list of aggregators. Via Dave Winer, who was irritated that Radio wasn't in the list.

From the "Let's Jump To Conclusions" Department with my acquisition of Zempt, and my continued use of NewsGator, I can produce and consume content without ever using a browser. I get information in Outlook via NewsGator, and I can turn it around (or create it from scratch) in Zempt. ...

I tried out this SharpReader, and found it to quite competent it's a free, Windows newsreader. It seems to do all the right things. It's very Outlook-ish: three panes, unread items bolded, etc. It lets you filter and sort and such. But here's the thing. Look at this screencap: ...

Related to Joe's post about Microsoft's RSS bandwidth issues, I'm seeing a lot of talk about the blogosphere about an RFC from January 2002: RFC 3229, "Delta encoding in HTTP." The idea behind this RFC is to just send the deltas the changes between a current document and ...

The third era starts here: This article is a good overall introduction to where the Web is headed. It's worth reading if you think the Web is going to stay a "come-and-read-my-Web-page" affair: The programmable web is different for two main reasons. First, instead of going to look at a ...

Raw Blog: Authentication in RSS Readers: Here's a handy list of news aggregators that support authentication and the type (HTTP, HTTPS, URL) they support.

Shrook: RSS done right: This is an RSS client for the Mac, with one very interesting feature that people are talking about. "A central server maintains a database of when each channel was last updated. To keep it up to date, every so often, the server chooses a computer to ...

Gadgetopia got targeted by a comment spam bot over the weekend. Two entries were targeted, and each got 80 comments apiece one for a site with rape fiction, the other for a porn site apparently specializing in incest. This happen three times over the weekend, for a total of ...

myFeedster :: Your RSS Desktop: Feedster is offering a Web-based aggregator. MyFeedster offers you a web based News Aggregator, the ability to Save Posts, the ability to Save Searches and more.

It's raining free apps! Picasa is a pretty terrific photo management software. Google just bought the company, and they're giving Picasa away for free. My father-in-law just got a digital camera for his birthday, so I set him up with Picasa. Now he just plugs in the camera, and up ...

We unleashed our new search page over the weekend. To make it work correctly, we had to retroactively keyword all past entries (a endeavor about which I will write more later). but with that done, it seems to be working quite well. The engine returns terms in two groups ...

Feed Icons - Help establish the new standard: Apparently the resource for the RSS feed icon which Microsoft has now embraced. They offer that icon in about a half-dozen formats in a 2MB download -- different colors too.

Here's something I'd love the ability to synchronize two installations of the same software on two different computers. I'm thinking right now of Thunderbird. I have so many settings customized email accounts, RSS feeds, custom search rules, address book entries, adaptive spam filters, etc. Settings I tweak on ...

Similar to a situation of a couple years ago, I ve found another Web site that s reproducing selected Gadgetopia articles in full, and surrounding them with ads. In no case does this site discuss my posts or write any original posts of their own, they just take some Gadgetopia posts from ...

Whatever happened to Mr. Belding?: Believe it or not, but USAToday actually has a decent entertainment blog. It seems legit too Whitney Matheson posts stuff all day long. No RSS, but otherwise a good effort from the Old Guard.

We had some DNS problems in the last 48 hours that prevented our RSS feed from resolving. So we weren't really quiet, your aggregator just wasn't get anything from us. Sorry. We're back to blabbering incoherently now.

HTTP Error 410: Gone: I found this page today when searching for a refresher on the 410 status code. It means gone. Forever. Not just not found right now, but forever more. Gone, baby. We should use status code 410 more. As far as I can tell, it’s the forgotten ...

I've been using a new free RSS aggregator for a couple of days and, on the whole, I'm very impressed. RssReader does lack a few features of some of the other players, but is very responsive and easy to use. It needs the .NET framework to run.

Subscriptions with feed://: There's a movement afoot to add a "standard" protocol of "feed://" for subscribing to RSS feeds. This item includes a link to the Microsoft MSDN article that explains how to link an application to a URL protocol, which neatly explains how Zempt and Skype did it.

Blog Change Bot: IM and RSS are starting to collide. "Blog Change Bot (blogchangebot on AIM) is a blog monitoring service which updates you via AOL Instant Messanger when a blog you are interested is updated. Subscribe via AIM or iChat to be automatically notified when the blog is updated."

If you're not subscribed to the comments RSS feed, then this page may come in handy. It displays the last 30 comments on the site, printed in full, with links to the posts to which the comments apply. Very handy for getting up-to-date on site activity in a hurry.

SHELL EXTENSION CITY: This is a great site, full of links to the most useful little apps. Every week I find something handy in their RSS feed. I'm posting this because I have about 10 things there bookmarked to post about -- I figured it was more efficient just to ...

NewsGator Media Center Edition: Greg is such a bad a**. I'm jealous. Yep, that's a video stream from a RSS enclosure playing in the lower left corner. One more click of the remote, and it's full screen. (And yes, it's from Microsoft's Channel 9 video feed) The screencaps look great.

Bloglines is a server-based RSS aggregator, and an impressive one at that. It's extremely simple to set up and just as easy to use. "Unlike other aggregators which require you to download and install software, Bloglines runs on our servers and requires no installation. Because your Bloglines account is accessible ...

About.com has re-launched all their "guide sites" as Movable Type blogs. This means they all have RSS feeds. Joy. Trivia: I was hired by The Mining Company (as they were known then) in 1997 to be a guide for James Bond, but they retracted their offer when I signed on ...

The FuzzyBlog :: Scott Johnson's Blog: A call for a new protocol for news aggregators so you can have a "Subscribe to this Feed" link on your site that would subscribe the user in whatever news reader they've set as their default. "Now what I'd recommend to aggregator vendors is ...

Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster?: Wired peels back the curtain on Wallop. "In fact, Wallop is Microsoft's venture into the red-hot social-networking arena, using the common Microsoft tack of piecing together existing technologies and packaging them for the novice user. Those technologies include Friendster-style social-networking capabilities, super-simplistic blogging tools, moblogging, wikis ...

NewsMonster 1.2.2: A new version of NewsMonster is out, and it's free. "This was a long and hard decision but it seems to make sense considering that my major goal with this release was to build a distributed reputation system and very advanced RSS aggregator. Since most of these features ...

The Feed Thickens: A pretty basic concept now has a name: feedsplicing. Splicing gives people the ability to offer a single RSS feed which contains a chronologically ordered arrangement of their photostream from Flickr and the feed from their existing blog (so you might end up with something like blog ...

I've started reading RSS feeds in Bloglines (and loving it, but that's another post). Bloglines has a snazzy feature which shows how many other Bloglines users are subscribed to the same feed you're looking at. The winner among my feeds? Slashdot, with 23,001. Second is Boing Boing with 14,767. Gadgetopia ...

Here s my second installment in a series of audio posts for Windows Mobile (if the audio widget doesn t come through in RSS, you ll need to visit the permalink for this post). This one is a bit longer, and digs in a little deeper about some of the issues I ve ...

Using Firefox on OS X? Like to find free content for your iPod? If so, FoxiPod just made your job a little bit easier. FoxiPod is a Greasemonkey script that will place a small icon next to any link to an audio file compatible with iTunes. Clicking the icon downloads ...

theSpoke: Here's another blogging / social networking app from Microsoft. From Microsoft Watch: So far, The Spoke seems to be in an early public test phase. There are about a dozen registered community members, or "hubbers," participating in the message boards. Within the past few days, Microsoft added a Real ...

I'm getting a lot of requests from "MagpieRSS" which is an RSS feed handler for PHP. In some cases, they're coming every 15 minutes. I checked the logs and found they were all coming from the same IP (65.61.162.22) which gives me "403 Forbidden" at a domain called "blogsafe.com" (the ...

Bon Echo (aka Firefox 2) Alpha 2 Review : The alpha of Firefox 2 is out. Some neat stuff: Automatic search term suggestion for selected search engines, a la Google Suggest More control over tab behavior, including better placement of the tab close button Automatic formatting of raw RSS feeds ...

Amazon should run reverse affiliate links. When you search for or look at a book on Amazon, they should have a little box that says "If you like this book, you might like these blogs..." Better yet, let people upload their OPML file to their Amazon profile. Then they could ...

Hey folks, if any of your are subscribed to the RSS feed under the old deanebarker.net domain name, you need to get that changed to gadgetopia.com right quick. DNS on deanebarker.net is changing as we speak, as that site is going to become my personal blog sometime in the future. ...

The Feedburner subscription numbers have settled over the last 36 hours or so since we switched the feed over. The final subscriber number is about 2,250 people sucking down the RSS feed. Of course, I have no idea how that number is being calculated, but a lot of other people ...

All Consuming: This site trolls through RSS feeds looking for ISBN's and uses them to calculate what books are being discussed in the blogosphere. Here's our page. We've mentioned books on this site before, but the only ones that show up here are the ones we've linked to with our ...

Introducing Gush: I'm not sure about the functionality, but this is a flat gorgeous app. Anil Dash says that it's written in Flash. Gush makes instant messaging and news aggregation simple, functional, and attractive. Gush excels at the functionality it provides without including the kitchen sink. Leaving the safety of ...

CMS for Flash - fCMSPro: A CMS strictly for Flash Web sites. I assume the admin is in Flash, but I wonder if the output is Flash only too? This pro version of our fCMS component is a full Flash Content Management System which allows you to design, edit and ...

dzone.com - fresh links for developers: I do not add RSS feeds easily to my aggregator. The last one I added was Solution Watch, several months ago. I added dzone again last week. This is like Digg, but just for developers. Now, I know, Digg-ish sites are a dime a ...

Please Don t Steal This Web Content: Remember those people that reprinted my content a few weeks back? Apparently this phenomenon has a name. VanFossen isn t referring to the kind of plagiarism in which a lazy college student copies sections of a book or another paper. This is automated digital plagiarism ...

Sites That Suck: This site is worthy of a browse it's a gallery of painfully-designed Web sites (sadly, the site itself doesn't look all that great). I like the use of vacuum cleaners instead of stars to measure how much a site "sucks," and great commentary like this: I ...

Buzz Game: Home: This is fascinating. The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends As a player, your goal is to predict how popular various technologies will be in the future. Popularity or buzz is measured by Yahoo! Search frequency over time. Predictions ...

I've been completely frustrated with the level of political discourse this year here in the US. With only two months left in the election, neither candidate has come forward and provided a detailed plan for what they'd like to see happen for the future. "I'll put more money in the ...

Share Your OPML: Top 100 Feeds: If you're new to RSS or are just looking for some new feeds, Dave Winer's "Share Your OPML" site has an OPML file of the Top 100 feeds that you can download and import to your aggregator. This site allows people to upload their ...

RoadMap - Sam Ruby's Wiki: This is a consortium of some of the A-list bloggers to standardize what a Web log is. They're trying to distill the basic elements of a blog, and develop a standard to which blogging tools can adhere. While that seems unrealistic in the vast blogging ...

Turn Word Into a Syndication Client: This article is about using Word 2003 as an RSS client, but it also sheds some light on the fantastic new features in Office 2003: The most visible aspect of Word's XML support is its ability to act as a native editor for XML ...

About three weeks ago, an upgrade to the latest version of Movable Type killed our comment spam filtering. I finally had an hour to track the problem down, and it turns out the upgrade cleared the WordPress API key that MT-Akismet needs to function. We ve restored the key, and comment ...

NewsGator Case Study: Triple Point Technology: This is a great case study by the guys over at NewsGator about integrating blogs and RSS into the enterprise. "Internal weblogs were created using Six Apart's Movable Type. Internal authors are accustomed to sending email, but now post certain information to their new ...