GNHLUG RSS feeds, was Re: GNHLUG.Www - Automated notification of topic changes

[Ted Roche]

On May 2, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Ben Scott wrote:

>  I'm not sure (I don't use RSS myself), but I think this
>
> http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/UpcomingEvents?skin=rss
>
> might work as well.  It certainly does *something*.  Maybe if you feed
> that to the right software, it will become a feed of upcoming events,
> or something like that.  :)

No, I'm afraid that is an unholy mashup of a TWiki topic (in HTML)  
and a TWiki skin overlay (in pidgeon-XML)

Getting the TWiki to generate RSS at all was an elegant hack, but  
it's only been implemented at the "web"-wide level.

>  There is also a way to be notified by email (which I use):
>
> http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/TWiki/WebNotify

Yup, I'm subscribed to all of them.

> -- Ben "Doesn't get the hype over RSS" Scott

I've been a huge enthusiast for years now. I use RSS to skim  
headlines every day in the New York Times, InfoWorld, Computer World,  
Slashdot, OSNews, Ars Technica, and dozens of other sites (the  
complete list is in the righthand column at http://radio.weblogs.com/ 
0117767), post a number of blogs with RSS feeds, and used RSS to  
intercommunicate between apps in the past. RSS is a simple XML  
format, but the combination of that with XML-RPC and smart readers  
and aggregators has lead to some pretty nity communities, with more  
innovation coming along. RSS Rocks.

Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com