MetaFilter posts tagged with RSS

I tire of your analog attitude.

geekyguy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:12:59 -0800

A front pages post

fatllama — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:54:33 -0800

Catching up on webcomics, at your desired speed

jbickers — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:57:25 -0800

"Have you ever found an interesting looking webcomic, looked at the archive, and thought: I can't start reading this! There are hundreds of strips to catch up on! Rather than spend a whole day or more bingeing on a comic archive, set up an Archive Binge feed. You can start from the beginning, or wherever you're up to. You can set your custom feed to deliver a strip every day, 4 strips every weekday, or whatever you want, up to 10 strips a day."

SubPubHubbub

griffey — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:46:17 -0800

SubPubHubbub The real-time web, manifested by services like Twitter and Friendfeed are all the rage these days. What happens if everything online could be real-time? It can, thanks to Google PubSubHub and their ongoing effort to add it to their products. A ton of digiterati are paying attention to this lately, starting with Anil Dash's great post on how it works and can change the web, Gina Trapani's look at how Google is implementing it, and even Dave Winer loves it. Run your own Wordpress blog? You can implement your own SubPub service, at least to Friendfeed.

govt stimulus website is a stimulus

stbalbach — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:08:14 -0800

In the name of transparency, all the Fed’s stimulus-spending data will be posted at a new government site, Recovery.gov - more than a minor victory for the democracy, it could be a stimulus in and of itself - databases released in machine-readable formats - like RSS, XML, and KML—spawn new business and grease the wheels of the economy.

"Thus oft a struggle to escape - But lands us in a still worse scrape"

nthdegx — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:18:29 -0800

page2rss is a simple, effective RSS scraper. For instance, here's an RSS feed for Astronomy Picture of the Day. A powerful feature: "You can add a button to your browser's bookmarks toolbar that will create Page2RSS feed for the page you are currently viewing."

Scoble on How to Read 600 RSS Feeds a Day

shivohum — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:13:01 -0800

How to Read 600 RSS Feeds a Day for Pleasure and Profit. Video of Robert Scoble showing how he culls 600 RSS feeds a day for his weblog, Scobleizer, using Google Reader.

lolfeeds

mendel — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:40:56 -0800

LOLfeeds turns any RSS feed into cat macros. For instance: this place, MetaTalk, or Craigslist personals.

They call it crowdgaming.

phaedon — Sun, 27 May 2007 19:17:36 -0800

Become a joystick.

Feed2JS

spock — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:16:04 -0800

Feed2JS is an amazingly cool (free) service that lets you harness the wealth of RSS feeds out there for yourself (embedding them in your blog template or web page) in a very simple and highly configurable way. Style it with one of the available CSS styles, or write your own. If you like you can also download the whole Feed2JS application/script to run on your own server. (Step-by-step tutorial inside)

Real-Time Global Bad News Map

fenriq — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:14:46 -0800

The Global Trouble AlertMap
Are you curious about that chemical spill in Minnesota? Or how about the bio hazard situation in Honduras? The Havaria Information Systems AlertMap is updated in (near) real-time and the wealth of bad news is fairly astonishing. Plus they've got RSS feeds for whatever bad (or locationally relevant) news you want delivered. There are USA only maps, Europe only maps and Hungary too (slow day, just a fire). Previously (focused on bird flu tracking though several comments note how freakin' cool the map is)

"Make Congress more transparent and encourage civic engagement"

rfbjames — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:55:29 -0800

OpenCongress.org is a site that aggregates data about the United States Senate and House. Keep track of your senators or representatives through rss feeds, read bills on topics that are important to you, and find out what industries are behind the scenes providing money to your politicians in Washington among many other uses of this new resource.

Pipes: Rewire the web

2sheets — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:30:13 -0800

The internet is a series of Pipes. Create your own feed mashups with a visual programming environment.

Five links that I can't believe haven't been posted already (first in a series)

kaytwo — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:26:48 -0800

5ives : merlinmann's Lists of Five Things.

Heard about the cat with Bubonic Plague in Flagstaff?

If I Had An Anus — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:41:14 -0800

The RSOE Global Disasters Service tracks seismic activity, bird flu, chemical spills and even vehicle accidents by monitoring and processing data of approximately 600-700 news sources, many researching institutes and realtime data of forecasting services. I've subscribed to the RSS feed and you should too . . . you've been getting too much sleep anyway. [via]

Amazon Feed-builder

silusGROK — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:55:41 -0800

So. Paul Bausch of all sorts of fame rolled-out an update to his amazing Amazon feed-builder. What's the big deal? Well, I'm a big fan of Wendell Berry and Craig Thompson, of Naguib Mahfouz and books about New Urbanism... and now, with the help of PB's delicious feed-builder, I'll be notified whenever something new comes from any of these authors or meets the "New Urbanism" search criteria, so I can add them to my Amazon wish list... and I think that's pretty darn cool. Add that to Amazon's pre-existing wish list feeds, which let you monitor other people's wish lists for additions ( you can find a wish list's feed on its "home" page ), and I'm in heaven.

( As a direct result of the feeds I subscribed to this weekend, my Amazon wish list has grown from 1600 to more than 1800 items. I blame Paul... he's such an enabler! )

...maybe new ideas will come.

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sun, 07 May 2006 23:37:45 -0800

A talk given by Matt Webb on fictional futures, and a whole lot besides. Just some text and some pictures, but he takes you on a most excellent brain adventure, from Italo Calvino to a map of all the biochemical reactions on Earth to Vannevar Bush’s machine, the Memex with dozens of stops in between. One of my favorite parts -- and the coolest use of RSS I've ever seen -- is a tool to subscribe to your personal lightcone. [via]

Dave Winer: "Real" or "Virtual" Tyrant?

ed — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:15:27 -0800

Winer goes after Cadenhead in litigious fashion. Never mind that the $10,000 Cadenhead earned transformed into $2.3 million for Winer. Meanwhile, Winer, on the verge of retirement (or so he claims), provides "real Dave" and "virtual Dave" explanation.

teh intarwebs peeveearr

gren — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:09:33 -0800

Democracy Player. Watch internet videos like you watch TV. Cool trick to it, whichever OS you are on (OS X or Windows for now, *nix coming soon) the homepage will load the appropriate download link. Built in channel guide gives you access to tons of interesting content, and lets anyone share their vids.

Newsfilter on steroids

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:25:42 -0800

Watch news events happen in realtime as they get pumped into RSS-space™. In the grand if not lengthy tradition of newsquakes, vanishing point, and newsmap. Plugins and stuff required. [Visualize the hell out of the news, come here, post it, then get hauled into Metatalk for your trouble!]

Plagiarism - or web 2.0 in action?

bwerdmuller — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:34:26 -0800

Top Ten Sources takes posts from RSS feeds and aggregates them in full for the public to see. Some take offence; some say it goes beyond expected usage; some call it plagiarism - others say it's legal, that detractors should get a life or are even thinking about investing. Some people don't appear to want their RSS feeds to be aggregated at all. Will this discussion set blogging policy for the future? Or will it block the web 2.0 pipe?

Gluing it together

divabat — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 01:04:08 -0800

Want your goals, bookmarks, photos, music, b l o g s (or anything else RSS-friendly) in one place? SuprGlu collects your own content from your feeds on various webservices and posts them in one centralized place, making a personalized site all about you. As an example. (example links not mine)

Take This Podcast to Havana!

aaronetc — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:55:20 -0800

Is your podcast being hijacked? The nature of RSS and podcast content makes it really easy for somebody to create new feeds based on somebody else's content and pass it off as the original through directories like Yahoo's or iTunes; then, of course, they potentially add advertising or use the built-up audience to extort the original podcaster. Podkeyword, the organization that has sparked concern about the issue, says they're not doing anything illegal or unethical; correspondence between Podkeyword and the guy whose podcast is at issue is available. [First pass legal take here, potential third-party retribution here; via.]

The Average Shoveler

srboisvert — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:09:19 -0800

The Average Shoveler Strange retro snow shoveling game style rss news stream [flash]

news reader on steroids

gen — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:43:33 -0800

Google Reader. Google has launched a news reader at the Web 2.0 conference.