Several issues have popped up recently which inspired me to gather my thoughts on them, to which I offer: Ken MacLeod's RSS Political FAQ http://bitsko.slc.ut.us/2003/08/ken-rss-faq.html I welcome additions, updates, corrections, clarifications, questions, answers, and, not surprising to most, coherent counter argument. -- Ken Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
I just blogged the news: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000920.html for the lazy: http://news.yahoo.com/rss Jeremy -- -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <Jeremy@...> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:51:26PM -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > I just blogged the news: > > http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000920.html > > for the lazy: > > http://news.yahoo.com/rss *sigh* Someone jummped the gun (not me). Stay tuned. Jeremy -- -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <Jeremy@...> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Hello, My name is Loren Baker and I am with WebAdvantage.net. We syndicate our eMarketing and Internet News via different techniques: Google News Moreover RSS feeds KlipFolio Radio.Userland and other traditional RSS aggregators What am I missing if I want to fully expand our Syndication via the Internet's top and easy to use FREE syndication solutions. Here's our content: http://www.webadvantage.net/tip.cfm Thank you, Loren Baker Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Loren Baker wrote: >What am I missing if I want to fully expand our Syndication via the >Internet's top and easy to use FREE syndication solutions. > >Here's our content: http://www.webadvantage.net/tip.cfm > > > I couldn't find any RSS feeds on your site. Do you have any? If not, start there. If so, make it easier for aggregators to find your feeds. See http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/06/02/important_change_to_the_link_tag for information on helping aggregators auto-discover your feed. Hope this helps. Mark -- Mark Fletcher Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:51:26PM -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > I just blogged the news: > > http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000920.html > > for the lazy: > > http://news.yahoo.com/rss Okay, as noted here: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000952.html They're up for real this time. Jeremy -- -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <Jeremy@...> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Jeremy Zawodny wrote: >Okay, as noted here: > > http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000952.html > >They're up for real this time. > > > Looks great! One suggestion to make it easier for people to subscribe would be to include a set of <link> tags on http://news.yahoo.com/rss to identify the feeds specifically. Like this: |<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Top Stories" href="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories"> ||<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="World" href="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/world"> ||<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Business" href="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/business"> ||<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Technology" href="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech"> ||<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Politics" href="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/politics"> ||<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Sports" href="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/sports"> ||<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Entertainment" href="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/entertainment"> ||<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Health" href="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/health">(Continue reading)
Jeremy Zawodny wrote: >Okay, as noted here: > > http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000952.html > >They're up for real this time. > > > It looks like that the <link> for each item in the feed changes every time the feed is fetched. It looks like a tracking URL is being used, perhaps to correlate a link to a particular RSS fetch. I don't mind the tracking aspect, but because the link changes, Bloglines considers each item as being updated every time we fetch one of the feeds. We track which items each user has read, and when an item is updated, we treat it as an unread item. So users end up seeing items they've already read, over and over. Any chance of getting this changed? We could special case the Yahoo feeds. Or we could ignore changes to <link> tags in general. Both are doable, but suboptimal. As an aside, to other aggregator writers. Do other aggregators consider changes to <links> to indicate that an item has been updated? Thanks, Mark --(Continue reading)
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:41:48PM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > >Okay, as noted here: > > > > http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000952.html > > > >They're up for real this time. > > > > It looks like that the <link> for each item in the feed changes every > time the feed is fetched. I'm not seeing that happen. Can anyone else reproduce it? If so, what RSS URL? I'm testing with: http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories and it seems okay. > It looks like a tracking URL is being used, perhaps to correlate a > link to a particular RSS fetch. It's a tracking URL to track that your click came from the RSS feed, but not from a particular fetch. > I don't mind the tracking aspect, but because the link changes,(Continue reading)
Jeremy Zawodny wrote: >I'm not seeing that happen. > >Can anyone else reproduce it? If so, what RSS URL? > >I'm testing with: > > http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories > >and it seems okay. > > Hmm. That's the feed I saw it with. We fetch hourly, and between the 2:45pm and 3:45pm fetch, the urls didn't change. They did change from our initial fetch at around 2:10pm (when the first user subscribed) and the normal 2:45pm fetch. Maybe it was a one-time thing. Here's a sample just for kicks: What we got around 2:10pm or so: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/716/1b61ffe3d3e401f8a236c4e4727dcd70/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl =story2&u=/ap/20030826/ap_on_sc/shuttle_investigation What we got at 2:45pm: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/716/56c2218fb25259b13bf8066330154de1/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?t mpl=story2&u=/ap/20030826/ap_on_sc/shuttle_investigation Again, we didn't see it between the last two fetches. Perhaps it was a fluke.(Continue reading)
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