newsfeeds

[Carl Tollander-2]

Robert, the site is pretty cool.  I'll be looking at
RSS Digest more closely.

I am currently wading through 2 Oreilly Books:
        Content Syndication with RSS by Ben Hammersley
        Practical RDF by Shelly Powers

The Hammersley book is a faster read; though there is an RSS
chapter in the Powers book.  I've been using some simpler
RDF for some years for artificial genome representations,
and at this point it looks like I will probably be settling
on RSS 1.0 for my other near future development work.

Haven't played with news aggregators much, (on my todo list),
however both of these fairly recent books have reviews
of aggregators and some roll-your-own examples, so you can
see what aggregators and readers are actually doing.

I've also been playing some with XSLT and am looking at how
some RSS -> (XSLT informed by OWL and RDF)-> CSS
interactions might work best together for
specifying/monitoring ABMs.

It's probably important
(for development purposes) to differentiate between some
RSS format for syndicating "news" (as in "reading the news",
where one is worried about formatting issues)
from some notion of syndicating business rules, gene functors,
"agents", etc in some set of  peer applications.  In the latter
case, you might be able to assume a little more rigor over
the aggregators and clients use of ontologies (e.g. OWL).

Lastly, I haven't played with it much but I note that the
latest Thunderbird mail client from Mozilla has an RSS newsreader.
I'd be interested to hear anyone's experience with this.

Carl

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 
> <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
> <file://www.holmesacosta.com>
>
> - Robert
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