Tag: feed

  • WordPress 2.3 upgrade breaks RSS feed

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    Tom Raftery
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    Sean McNamara alerted me via the comments on this blog that my RSS feed was broken (thanks a million Sean). I sorted that out this morning so it should be good again and Google Reader is certainly having no problem seeing my posts now. So what happened? To be honest, I’m not entirely sure (!)…

  • Cool online feed aggregator

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    Tom Raftery
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    I got an email this morning from a Tom Atkins. Tom had read about my various issues with FeedLounge and trying to sort out an online RSS Feed aggregator so I can keep my feeds synched across computers. Tom suggested I have a look at an online RSS Feeds aggregator called Gregarius and I did…

  • RSS usability problems re-discovered!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Robert Scoble has written a post bemoaning the lack of standards in using RSS feeds and the consequent confusion which this causes : Some sites use RSS icons. Most that I visit use the orange XML icon. But other sites don’t have any icon and instead use words like “subscribeâ€? or “feedâ€? or “web feed.â€?…

  • What exactly is RSS?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Have you heard about RSS and wondered what exactly it is? Well in technospeak RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a family of XML file formats for web syndication. To put it more simply, the technology behind RSS allows internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds so that…