RSS feed questions

Answered some questions about RSS feeds for justing and Steve.:

Already available, but apparently not advertised or well used. See

an interesting one is

    http://www.uvm.edu/news/latest-uvm-news.rss/research

I’ve dealt with this kind of thing with MRG: somebody cut and pasted curly quotes from Word. Some readers deal with this, others (like iTunes) don’t, which can screw stuff up (podcasting).

Anyway, given this capability, it is remarkable easy to add it to other pages:

    o add a file metatags.html to folder, as described here

 
    o content of metatags looks something like this:

        <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="CIT – Top Stories [RSS]"
        href="http://www.uvm.edu/news/latest-uvm-news.rss/cit" />

I did this to the CIT site:

On Apr 7, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Justin Henry wrote:

Maybe then generating alternate news feeds for the specific news categories would be a good (temporary) next step? I.e. this

Generates the same feed as this

and this

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