newsfeeds

[Owen Densmore]

Wow, what a great stunt!  Looks great, how'd you do it?  Does it need a
server-side component?

On Oct 4, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Robert Holmes wrote:

> So I was inspired by Owen's tinkerings with CSS to explore newsfeeds
> (I've
> always liked the idea of someone else generating the content on my
> website).
> I tried a few of the services recommended on
> http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/rss.html: FeedSweep looks cute,
> but it's
> slow and won't understand RSS < 1.0 (which is what my PhysicsWeb feed
> uses);
> RSS-xpress Lite is fast and highly configurable (using CSS) but you
> can't
> display the news items' descriptions; RSS Digest seems about the best
> for my
> purposes, though it's approach to formatting is somewhat idiosyncratic.
>
> Anyone had any experience with these things? Anyone got any useful
> feeds?
> You'll find my current four favourites on www.holmesacosta.com
>
> - Robert
>
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