Do you use RSS? Not many do, apparently. Goodbye, then, RSS button in the location bar of Firefox 4 (
Bugzilla entry). “
RSS is dying,” a blog hyperbolizes in response, with
retort from Asa Dotzler of Mozilla, who states the functionality is being moved to a menu item.
posted by joeclark
on Jan 3, 2011 -
98 comments
Bloglines.com is closing down. According to Ask.com, the owners of Bloglines, the world is very different now from the world in which Bloglines was launched.
"The Internet has undergone a major evolution. The real-time information RSS was so astute at delivering (primarily, blog feeds) is now gained through conversations, and consuming this information has become a social experience."
posted by AmbroseChapel
on Sep 10, 2010 -
75 comments
"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."
posted by jbickers
on Sep 7, 2009 -
24 comments
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.
posted by stbalbach
on Feb 18, 2009 -
12 comments
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.
posted by rfbjames
on Feb 27, 2007 -
18 comments
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! )
posted by silusGROK
on Jun 12, 2006 -
17 comments
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.]
posted by aaronetc
on Dec 14, 2005 -
31 comments
H2O Playlist: a series of links to books, articles, and other materials that collectively explore an idea or set the stage for a course, discussion, or current event. With tags, rss and other good stuff.
And this time the color scheme is quite nice.
posted by signal
on Jul 15, 2005 -
6 comments
The Longhorn Browser and RSS Team. Long video warning (almost an hour; how far will you get?) - If you've ever worked with the Redmondites, this'll look pretty familiar. What a kick to read all of ya'lls comments...how 'bout it?
posted by ValveAnnex
on Jul 4, 2005 -
55 comments
Library Elf is a nifty free service that tracks all of your library books. It sends you emails and/or delivers RSS notifications when your books become due, shows you a list of all books you currently have out, and lets you know when that book you wanted is available. It supports multiple cards per account, so you can track all books for the whole household. Also, do everyone in your community a favor--
see if your library is listed and, if it isn't,
request that they add it.
posted by juggernautco
on Jun 25, 2005 -
35 comments
Feedpalooza. This gentleman offers to scrape any website (at his discretion) to provide you the custom feed you want. For instance, I wanted a simple black box on my site with the real-time number of coalition casualties in Iraq. I pointed him to
this site. He scraped the one number and provided
this feed. Brilliant.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders
on Feb 18, 2005 -
15 comments
Bot-a-blog emails up to 25 blogs (RSS) updates to you,
gregarius lets you roll your own homepage to keep track of all the RSS feeds you read,
sharpreader works on windows
thinfeeder does it with java. How do you take your RSS, with one or two sugars?
posted by dabitch
on Dec 14, 2004 -
32 comments
RSS Mailer emails the contents of RSS feeds to mailing list users. You can manage your users and RSS feeds through a web interface and send a selected number of items from your RSS feeds (individually or all together) to the email addresses on your mail list. Users can subscribe/unsubscribe themselves through forms, or the administrator can subscribe/unsubscribe them through the web interface. You probably won't need
Bloglet anymore.
posted by hoder
on Oct 6, 2004 -
5 comments
Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is now available. The
Spread Firefox site hopes to see a million downloads, and they've already passed the halfway mark. The advantages of Firefox have been
previously discussed on MeFi, but this version includes an interesting new feature -
Live Bookmarks, which allow you to view RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. Obsessively checking MetaFilter is now easier than ever.
posted by Stuart_R
on Sep 17, 2004 -
51 comments
The Wall Street Journal offers RSS feeds ...headlines only, alas, and you still have to be a subscriber to read the full stories. But it's still a big endorsement of this technology by a major newspaper. Any other papers offering feeds? [Sample WSJ feed
here, additional info inside.]
posted by me3dia
on Jul 28, 2004 -
11 comments
My Yahoo's rss aggregator (beta) might be just the ticket for getting regular folks consuming blogs in a big way. Or RSS could remain the provence of the geeks. Thoughts? Is this the beginning of RSS for the people?
posted by christina
on Jan 23, 2004 -
5 comments
Mark Pilgrim and Dave Winer are fighting, again. It started over a remark
Dave made about various blogging services.
Mark turned around and created a
bot that reads Dave's RSS feed every 5 minutes and spits out the text, annotated to show what's been added/deleted/changed since the last time it ran. Dave's claiming copyright infringement, Mark's claiming fair use. Okay MeFi folks, which side are you on, and why?
posted by tommasz
on Jul 11, 2003 -
60 comments
The Disruptive Web is an InfoWorld article about the "disruptive" power of weblogs. Combining the aggregated reading habits of the blog community collected by
All Consuming with bookmarklets and an RSS feed, the author conducted an experiment to search for the availability of blog-popular books at local libraries. "By the end of the day, the technique was verified to work with many libraries in the United States. What's more, it had mutated. Reports came in from around the world about adaptations that worked with library systems from other vendors."
link via post atomic
posted by madamjujujive
on Jan 12, 2003 -
196 comments
Dave Winer's not happy about the fact that people are
tweaking the orange XML icon used to link RSS/RDF feeds. You've seen that orange button saying XML at various sites, including MeFi.
Milo just put up one saying RSS instead of XML, which was based on a point brought up by
xiffix, "In hindsight, appropriating the global acronym XML for this narrow use was a mistake. The button should say RSS. Hopefully, people will take Dave’s suggestion to do something completely different to heart and abandon the Userland attempt at a standard icon"
posted by riffola
on Oct 30, 2002 -
28 comments
