Getting Started with RSS Recently I discovered goodthatway, a tech news site whose tagline is “better living through better technology”. I suggested that the site offer an RSS feed to help people keep up with the latest links and stories. Scott from goodthatway was interested in the details, so I’ve put together this article with some details. There are a lot of different choices and options when assembling an RSS feed for your site. The path I’ve taken here is but one way to do it. Looking at goodthatway.com, it appears to be the perfect site for RSS. The home…
Just subscribed to the PVRBlog (PVR = Personal Video Recorder like TiVo or ReplayTV). This new blog was created by Matt Haughey who runs (among other things) MetaFilter and A Whole Lotta Nothing. Good stuff.
The latest issue of Crypto-Gram just came out today. If you're interested at all in computer security, this is a great resource that comes out once a month. His archives are also worth browsing through. Good site to learn from. Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail newsletter on computer security and cryptography from Bruce Schneier (author of Secrets and Lies and Applied Cryptography, inventor of Blowfish and Twofish, CTO and founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., general crypto pundit and occasional crypto curmudgeon).
The July issue of First Monday has appeared with a couple of interesting articles: The grey digital divide — Perception, exclusion and barriers of access to the Internet for older people (by Peter Millward) The impact of digital games in education (by Begoña Gros)
Feedster (a search engine for RSS feeds) recently added the ability to index your entire site. Normally, it will read your RSS feed to add entries to its index. But, if you've set up your RSS feed to only provide a recent number of entires (like 10), you might want to ask Feedster to get caught up with all of your posts. Here are the steps I followed to do this from MovableType: Log in to MT, navigate to Edit Templates page Edit your RSS template and copy the Template Body Create a new RSS template (with suitable name and…