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February 25, 2006Monitor Page Sections Via RSS Feeds With Feed43
Jim Stroud wanted a shout-out if I happened to write up Feed43, so here we go -- WOO HOO JIM!. Thanks for pointing me to Feed43, which answers a need I have felt for a while: "What if I want...
Continue reading "Monitor Page Sections Via RSS Feeds With Feed43" » December 09, 2005ScoopGo Lets You Generate Your Own Feed Search Engine
ScoopGo is a service that allows you to take your own list of RSS feeds and turn them into a search engine. And while I think this is a nifty idea, unfortunately ScoopGo has a couple of limitations that make...
Continue reading "ScoopGo Lets You Generate Your Own Feed Search Engine" » November 02, 2005Search Engine for OPML Files
OPML stands for "Outline Processor Markup Language" and is an XML format for outlines. However its more common use is as a file format for lists of RSS feeds. A variety of RSS feed readers at least import and often...
October 10, 2005Update to Kebberfegg RSS Tool
I have added several sources to Kebberfegg, and by popular demand have added Bloglines as one of the outputs on the HTML page. I've also added MultiRSS as an output option, and since they output several dozen aggregator subscription links,...
October 05, 2005Kebberfegg -- Keyword Based RSS Feed Generator
When I was at Web Search University last month, I talked extensively (I would not shut up) about keyword-based RSS feeds. Keyword-based RSS feeds (some people call them search-based feeds) are simply RSS feeds that are created as the result...
Continue reading "Kebberfegg -- Keyword Based RSS Feed Generator" » October 02, 2005RSS Feeds to Newsletters and Specializing the Feed
I got a very nice e-mail from a lady in Australia asking how the ResearchBuzz newsletters were done. Did I have a method, she asked, of converting my RSS feed to a newsletter? The answer to that is no; the...
Continue reading "RSS Feeds to Newsletters and Specializing the Feed" » September 28, 2005FeedShot Multi-Feed Submitter
FeedShot ( http://www.feedshot.com/ ) allows you to submit your RSS feed to 20 RSS search engines at one time. While some of the biggies are covered (Feedster, IceRocket) some are missing (Google Blog Search, Blogdex). Enter the URL of your...
August 19, 2005More RSS Feeds By E-Mail
My posts on RSS feeds by e-mail prompted reader AH to e-mail me and tell me about RSSFwd, another service that lets you read your RSS feeds by e-mail. It's free (though donations are appreciated) and available at http://www.rssfwd.com/ ....
August 15, 2005RSS Feeds for Universities
Peter Scott has a listing of University-based RSS feeds at http://ast.antville.org/. From the front page I saw pointers to Cambridge University Press and the IAAF. There are also a variety of non-university listings. It looks like there are lots and...
August 14, 2005Get Your RSS Feeds By E-Mail
After I mentioned the Perl tool for getting your RSS feeds by e-mail, which required a certain amount of geekiness and Perl-familiarity, a reader pointed me toward RMail, at http://www.kbcafe.com/Rmail.aspx . RMail allows you to subscribe to any RSS feed....
August 13, 2005Using GMail as an RSS Feed Reader
If you're enough of a geek to know your way around Perl and be able to install a Perl progam, you might want to check out GMailRSS, a series of scripts that translate incoming RSS feeds into e-mail and then...
August 10, 2005RSS Feed Generator Program from Dan Bricklin
The question on Web4Lib came up on what to use to generate RSS feeds. I have an RSS feed that I hand-generate every week (not ResearchBuzz' -- all 200+ of ResearchBuzz' RSS feeds come courtesy of Movable Type), but it's...
Continue reading "RSS Feed Generator Program from Dan Bricklin" » August 07, 2005Convert RSS to PDF
I'm not exactly sure why you'd use this, but http://rss2pdf.com allows you to convert RSS feeds to PDF files. You can import OPML files (that's pretty nifty) as well as choose whether or not to include images. PDF files generated...
August 05, 2005Catch a Feed and You're Sitting On Top of the World
I really hope I haven't set myself the standard of thinking up a song headline every time I write about the FeedShake people. I am not that creative. But I've managed it at least once more for a new feature...
Continue reading "Catch a Feed and You're Sitting On Top of the World" » August 03, 2005RSS Feeds on LexisNexis
If you wanna keep up with what's going at LexisNexis, it's just gotten a little easier. They're now offering four RSS feeds you can get at http://www.lexisnexis.com/presscenter/rss/ . The feeds include: All News, Business News, Legal News, and Risk Management...
Mix RSS Feeds, Put Them on Your Site
After reviewing Feedshake, I got an e-mail from Peter Cooper telling me about FeedDigest. Not only could FeedDigest mix RSS feeds, he said, it'd then give you code so you could put 'em on your site. So I went and...
July 27, 2005My Feedshake Brings All the Readers in the Yard
And they're like, it's better than yours.. oh, forget it. Feedshake allows you to mix up RSS feeds with two levels of expertise -- regular and advanced. You can try it at http://www.feedshake.com -- note the service is in beta....
Continue reading "My Feedshake Brings All the Readers in the Yard" » July 04, 2005Oishii! For Finding Del.Icio.Us Good Stuff
I don't know what Oishii! is supposed to mean, but the first thing that popped into my mind is what Rincewind is always saying in the Terry Pratchett books. But that's not what it is. Instead it's a tool for...
Continue reading "Oishii! For Finding Del.Icio.Us Good Stuff" » Early Beta RSS Feed Reader: Feednation
I like RSS feeds. And almost more than that I like RSS feeds by e-mail. So I want to check out Feednation, which is in "early beta" at http://www.feednation.com/ ....
May 23, 2005Yahoo Offers Publisher's Guide to RSS
Yahoo has released a guide to RSS for content publishers, which is now available at http://publisher.yahoo.com/rssguide . This guide is less about rolling an RSS feed and more about what to do once you've got an RSS feed, specifically what...
May 18, 2005Ask Jeeves/Bloglines Weather Thingie
I don't know what's more adorable, that the new product manager of Bloglines (now owned by Ask Jeeves) poses in first Ask Jeeves blog post with her dog, or that the first comment on her post is apparently from her...
May 14, 2005Online RSS Feed Reader from Microsoft?
Now Microsoft is getting RSSy. Whew. Once of their recent blog entries pointed me to Start.com, or more specifically http://www.start.com/1/. The disclaimer at the bottom of the first page states, "This site is not an officially supported site. It is...
May 11, 2005Ask Jeeves/Bloglines Weather Feed Thingie
I don't know what's more adorable, that the new product manager of Bloglines (now owned by Ask Jeeves) poses in first Ask Jeeves blog post with her dog, or that the first comment on her post is apparently from her...
Continue reading "Ask Jeeves/Bloglines Weather Feed Thingie" » May 09, 2005More Mashing Up -- RSS Mix
Mashing up is turning into a meme -- first it was music, then it was Web services.. now it's RSS feeds....
April 20, 2005Get Notification of RSS Feed Updates With Feedbeep
You may be quite content just letting most of your RSS feeds sit in your feed reader until you get around to 'em. On the other hand, there may be feeds whose content updates you want to know immediately. In...
Continue reading "Get Notification of RSS Feed Updates With Feedbeep" » Find RSS Feeds in Yahoo and Google
(Notes to myself for later searching/exploring) Okay, I'm totally confused. I'm doing some experimenting for finding RSS feeds within general search engine searches. So I took a Yahoo RSS feed and pulled out some characteristics that should be similar across...
April 09, 2005RSS Feeds for Yahoo Shopping
Yes, Yahoo Shopping has RSS feeds! Nifty! Get 'em at http://shopping.yahoo.com/rss/ . Now if I could only start paying Yahoo shops via PayPal......
March 09, 2005Directory of Corporate RSS Feeds
If you want to get a little beyond the idea of RSS feeds for each of the eight bazillion independent 'blogs out there, check out Nooked, which is for corporate RSS feeds and is searchable and browsable. It's available at...
March 08, 2005RSS Feeds From Missouri
While I was double-checking the information on the naturalization cards from Saint Louis, I noticed that the state of Missouri does in fact have a very nice set of RSS feeds! You can get to them from the Missouri more...
February 28, 2005AP Has RSS Feeds!
Woo Hoo! The AP has some RSS feeds, as you can see at http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/RSS_FEEDS?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=HOME. Feeds here include science, technology, and a featured feed....
February 16, 2005Community Tool: Web Site Listing Newspapers With RSS Feeds
Kevin Reynen and Jackie Rejfek have put together a site that lists over 1100 newspapers and 78 RSS feeds for those newspapers. The twist is they're asking the community to help them fill in the blanks. The site's at http://www.sidewalktheory.com/newspapers/...
Continue reading "Community Tool: Web Site Listing Newspapers With RSS Feeds" » February 09, 2005PubSub Offers Earthquake Updates
PubSub ( http://www.pubsub.com ) is offering earthquake data from the USGS (US Geological Survey.) Signing up for updates is simple; go to http://www.pubsub.com/earthquakes.php , select the area you want to be alerted on, and the magnitude of activity you want...
Bloglines for Librarians in 3.5 Easy Steps
Okay, librarians, now you've got no excuse for not getting into RSS......
Continue reading "Bloglines for Librarians in 3.5 Easy Steps" » January 15, 2005Submit Your RSS Feed to 15 Places at a Time
Submit your RSS feed to 15 places at a time, via FeedSubmitter, available free at http://thomaskorte.com/feedsubmitter/. Ta Danny....
Continue reading "Submit Your RSS Feed to 15 Places at a Time" » January 08, 2005RSS Promoting Bargains
There's a new mailing list for sharing information about bargain-shopping RSS feeds. Check it out at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RSSBargains....
January 06, 2005RSS Digest Gets to Version 2.0
RSS Digest, last covered in September 2004 ( http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/002022.shtml ), has gone to version 2.0. It supports RSS *and* Atom now, but it's still available at the same place: http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/ . In addition to the new Atom support, the new...
December 30, 2004Tracking UPS Packages Via an RSS Feed
SuperJason has developed a tool for tracking UPS packages via an RSS feed. He explains all and points to a permanent home for the tool at http://superjason.com/archive/2004/11/28/272.aspx. Very nice, Jason. Thank you!...
Steven Moves over to PubSub
Steven of Library Stuff will be working at PubSub starting in 2005. Congrats on the job change, Steven! Now get out there and be all the RSS evangelist you can be. :->...
December 13, 2004Newspapers With RSS Feeds
A very nice list of 142 newspapers with RSS feeds. Those of you that think RSS is just for 'blogs, think again please....
December 11, 2004The RSS Feed! It Speaks to Me! It Says "Hi Patsyyyyy"
(Yes! First Carol Burnett reference in a headline!) If you want your RSS feed as an MP3 file, check out FeedSpeaker -- blog at http://www.feedvert.com/FeedSpeaker/ . It's free but you'll need to download a couple extra bits if you don't...
Continue reading "The RSS Feed! It Speaks to Me! It Says "Hi Patsyyyyy"" » December 01, 2004RSS Generator for Amazon Searches
A nib tip to Nick Bradbury for the pointer to the Amazon RSS feed generator at http://www.oxus.net/amazon/. Here you may enter a search term and then the store you want to search (books, toys, music, etc), how you want the...
November 30, 2004Bloglines Goes International
RSS reader Bloglines ( http://www.bloglines.com ) announced on December 1 that they have started an internationalized Web site that allows people who speak Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portugese and Spanish to join and navigate the service in their native languages....
November 10, 2004Comparison Shopping Service Offers RSS Feeds
Dulance is offering a comparison shopping service with RSS feeds. It's free. You can check it out at http://www.dulance.com . You know the drill. Go to the site, it's a cute little search box, run a search. Make your search...
Continue reading "Comparison Shopping Service Offers RSS Feeds" » November 08, 2004Electronic Journals With RSS Feeds
The University of Saskatchewan Library has a directory of ejournals at http://library.usask.ca/ejournals/ , and has added a cool new way to view them -- journals with RSS feeds. Use the link on the left to explore them. Feeds are listed...
November 07, 2004Syndic8 Offering Better Feed Search
RSS information site Syndic8 is now providing better RSS feed search results by listing feeds in order of relevance. One more place to find RSS feeds.....
October 28, 2004Feedster Offers RSS Feed Finder
Feedster is now offering an RSS feed finder, at http://www.feedster.com/feedfinder.php . This search is in beta, but allows you do search a database of over 900,000 RSS feeds (Feedster claims an index of 972,046 feeds at this point) by entering...
October 25, 2004NewsGator RSS Reader Gets Fahree
You may know NewsGator http://www.newsgator.com as an RSS reader that integrates into Outlook, and that's so. But they also have an online RSS reader that until recently cost to use. They announced last week however that it's now fahree. I've...
October 07, 2004Couple of Feedster Notes
A long time ago, I set up a couple of Feedster e-mail alerts (learn more at http://www.feedster.com ) and I got them for a while and then stopped getting them. I wondered about that, but soon forgot about it. A...
October 06, 2004RSS Feeds at FindArticles.com
Last June, I mentioned that article search engine FindArticles ( http://www.findarticles.com ) had added sort by date and some other nifty features and made me a happy search wonk (article at http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001738.shtml .) My last line of the article was...
September 30, 2004Page O' Moreover RSS Feeds
Moreover has a page of its RSS feeds at http://w.moreover.com/categories/category_list_rss.html. RSS feeds are advertising supported but free for non-commercial use. There are over 300 feeds on this listing....
September 20, 2004Put RSS Feeds On Your Web Page
If you're interested in putting RSS feeds on your Web page but you don't have a lot of server/programming expertise, you might want to try the RSS Digest tool at http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/ . This tools has some nice extras on it,...
September 12, 2004National Hurricane Center Offering RSS Feeds
Propburgers with a side of propfries to reader GM who sent me a note about the National Hurricane Center offering RSS feeds. There are three available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutrss.shtml -- Atlantic and Eastern Pacific in English, and Atlantic in Spanish....
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