Comments on: Pasadena Now activates RSS feed!

By: Jill Davis Doughtie

Jill Davis Doughtie — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:02:55 +0000

Yeah, full content would be way handier. Even if there were ads at the bottom of the articles, like some people do with their feeds. For me, though, titles are better than nothing. I don’t usually visit the local news sites unless someone links to an article in a blog post — I get most of my news through my RSS reader. I’m not a big fan of visiting individual sites over and over checking to see what/if they’ve updated.

By: jeremiahsmall

jeremiahsmall — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:59:06 +0000

(comment filter stripped the tag out of my last sentence. Should say: …header claims rss version=”2.0″…)

By: jeremiahsmall

jeremiahsmall — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:56:37 +0000

Ok, I tried to be open minded (for about 15 minutes), but the Pasadena Now syndicating titles only is…well…lame.

::puts on propeller beanie::

Even the oldest syndication protocols have a description node. I wonder how they even managed to publish it without.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

The Pasadena Now feed header claims but each item node only contains a title and link node. What’s up with that?

By: Jill Davis Doughtie

Jill Davis Doughtie — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:39:28 +0000

I hadn’t seen that before — thanks very much for linking to it.

By: jeremiahsmall

jeremiahsmall — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:36:48 +0000

I guess you’re not counting PSN’s http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/xsl/memv/xml/206_most_viewed_rss.xml

(I don’t. I subscribed for like 2 days and found it irrelevant. Give us category based feeds and I’ll be interested.)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:14:27 +0000

You should have a post showing people how to use Google Reader! It’s the hands-down best/easiest way to track RSS feeds, if you have a Google account.