MetaFilter posts tagged with rss

"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]