Thursday, June 16, 2005
More progress on the OPML project.
Mark has started collecting Lists for:
Cool!
Mark has started collecting Lists for:
- Airlines
- Women's sports/basketball
- Healthcare equipment/drugs
Cool!
Finding the RSS Feed for a Website
The websites you already read may have an RSS feed. So you want to find it. Go to BlogStreet’s RSS Discovery tool and enter in a website. It will return the feed for you.
If that doesn’t find the RSS feed, go to the website whose feed you’re looking for; if it has one, then it probably includes a link to it.
This information is from http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml
Directories
Syndic8
Syndic8 is a directory of RSS feeds. You can search, or browse the directory
News Is Free
News Is Free is an online news aggregator and a directory of RSS feeds. You can search, or browse the directory. News Is Free also provides scraped RSS feeds for a number of websites.
BlogStreet’s RSS Directory
BlogStreet contains a number of blog-related tools. The directory lists the RSS feeds organized alphabetically.
Your Favourite Blog
Many blogs include a blogroll (links to other blogs). Many blogrolls also contain links to the RSS files of those blogs. A good way to find RSS feeds that you’re interested in is by folling links from the blogs you already read.
Search Engine Queries
A number of search engines allow you to view their search results in RSS format. This way, you can monitor the results for a subject that you are interested in.
Daypop
Daypop is a search engine for news, blogs, and RSS feeds (the last is powered by News Is Free). Perform a search, and the result has a link to its RSS feed at the top right of the page.
Feedster
Feedster is a search engine for RSS feeds. Perform a search, and the result has a link to its RSS feed at the top of the page.
BlogDigger
BlogDigger is a search engine for RSS feeds. Perform a search, and the result has a link to its RSS feed at the top right of the page.
Technorati
Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere - the world of weblogs.
The websites you already read may have an RSS feed. So you want to find it. Go to BlogStreet’s RSS Discovery tool and enter in a website. It will return the feed for you.
If that doesn’t find the RSS feed, go to the website whose feed you’re looking for; if it has one, then it probably includes a link to it.
This information is from http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml
Directories
Syndic8
Syndic8 is a directory of RSS feeds. You can search, or browse the directory
News Is Free
News Is Free is an online news aggregator and a directory of RSS feeds. You can search, or browse the directory. News Is Free also provides scraped RSS feeds for a number of websites.
BlogStreet’s RSS Directory
BlogStreet contains a number of blog-related tools. The directory lists the RSS feeds organized alphabetically.
Your Favourite Blog
Many blogs include a blogroll (links to other blogs). Many blogrolls also contain links to the RSS files of those blogs. A good way to find RSS feeds that you’re interested in is by folling links from the blogs you already read.
Search Engine Queries
A number of search engines allow you to view their search results in RSS format. This way, you can monitor the results for a subject that you are interested in.
Daypop
Daypop is a search engine for news, blogs, and RSS feeds (the last is powered by News Is Free). Perform a search, and the result has a link to its RSS feed at the top right of the page.
Feedster
Feedster is a search engine for RSS feeds. Perform a search, and the result has a link to its RSS feed at the top of the page.
BlogDigger
BlogDigger is a search engine for RSS feeds. Perform a search, and the result has a link to its RSS feed at the top right of the page.
Technorati
Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere - the world of weblogs.
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
We are getting started with our OPML project today. Here are our next steps:
1. Get a bloglines account setup
2. Create folders in the blogline account for industry segments
3. Start searching in the following areas for RSS feeds
a. Food (restaurants, quick casual/quick serve)
b. Insurance
c. Banking/Financial Services
d. Woman's Sports/Woman's Basketball
e. Healthcare (drugs, equipment, Insurance, Hospitals, Government)
f. Airline Industry
4. Search feed aggregators such as feedster, technorati, feedburner and newsgator (and what ever other ones you find out there)
5. Add feeds to the blogroll on bloglines
6. Probably one of the best ways to find qualified RSS feeds is to look at the links on highly relevant blog sites. Add the RSS feeds where applicable.
Once we have a listing of RSS feeds by category we can start to look at which ones we want to keep and which ones we want to delete. After that we can create the industry OPML files to be posted on our website
Interesting links with backgroud information on RSS:
About Syndication, RSS, and Other Web-Altering Chemicalshttp://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/aboutrss
White Paper - RSS: The Web's Next Big Thing?http://www.mediathink.com/rss/whitepaper.asp
1. Get a bloglines account setup
2. Create folders in the blogline account for industry segments
3. Start searching in the following areas for RSS feeds
a. Food (restaurants, quick casual/quick serve)
b. Insurance
c. Banking/Financial Services
d. Woman's Sports/Woman's Basketball
e. Healthcare (drugs, equipment, Insurance, Hospitals, Government)
f. Airline Industry
4. Search feed aggregators such as feedster, technorati, feedburner and newsgator (and what ever other ones you find out there)
5. Add feeds to the blogroll on bloglines
6. Probably one of the best ways to find qualified RSS feeds is to look at the links on highly relevant blog sites. Add the RSS feeds where applicable.
Once we have a listing of RSS feeds by category we can start to look at which ones we want to keep and which ones we want to delete. After that we can create the industry OPML files to be posted on our website
Interesting links with backgroud information on RSS:
About Syndication, RSS, and Other Web-Altering Chemicalshttp://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/aboutrss
White Paper - RSS: The Web's Next Big Thing?http://www.mediathink.com/rss/whitepaper.asp
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
I did a quick Google search on OPML list aggregation and found this interesting software at http://www.lonopono.com/index.html Their system allows you to drag and drop OPML lists. Do other aggregators do this too?
This will be an important aspect of our OPML industry list project.
This will be an important aspect of our OPML industry list project.
Monday, June 13, 2005
Big news on the RSS front for Mason today. Three new things to announce!
1. As part of our standard operating procedure, we will be RSS enabling all of our clients news pages. We launched Brueggers today and will be adding it to other clients in the near future. Feel free to add the feed! I'm sure our Brueggers team will have more news on this. I will be sure to post it when they do.
2. We are starting work on putting together an OPML library organized by industry category with hand picked RSS feeds selected by our staff. Our plan is to post these OPML libraries on our website along with a tutorial on how to use RSS feeds and feed aggregators. Hopefully people will find this to be beneficial. Our goal is to help industry segments have access to the most relevant information in a timely fashion.
3. The plan is to have more then just little old me posting blog articles. We have started the planning phases to implement the Mason Blog. I should have more news on this tomorrow afternoon.
I was off on Friday and haven't had a chance to review my blogroll. I will try to go through it tonight to post any other interesting info.
1. As part of our standard operating procedure, we will be RSS enabling all of our clients news pages. We launched Brueggers today and will be adding it to other clients in the near future. Feel free to add the feed! I'm sure our Brueggers team will have more news on this. I will be sure to post it when they do.
2. We are starting work on putting together an OPML library organized by industry category with hand picked RSS feeds selected by our staff. Our plan is to post these OPML libraries on our website along with a tutorial on how to use RSS feeds and feed aggregators. Hopefully people will find this to be beneficial. Our goal is to help industry segments have access to the most relevant information in a timely fashion.
3. The plan is to have more then just little old me posting blog articles. We have started the planning phases to implement the Mason Blog. I should have more news on this tomorrow afternoon.
I was off on Friday and haven't had a chance to review my blogroll. I will try to go through it tonight to post any other interesting info.
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