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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the service manager at Weston Technologies. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
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Want your favorite site to use RSS?Then send them a letter! Amy has posted a couple of form letters you can send to site publishers: one for the general public, and for journalists. I know I'll be printing these up and sending them to a few places. 2 CommentsFouZ said on 03/25/04 @ 05:15 AM:Or you can use my web site that make RSS from site that doesn't have RSS feed. Like CNN. You can't e-mail CNN for RSS feed!! :) http://express.xstreamsoft.com Amy Gahran said on 03/26/04 @ 07:09 AM: Thanks, Jake, for mentioning the RSS request form letters I offer. Actually, you don't have to print them out -- I've just been making my requests to online publishers by e-mail. Regarding the comment by FouZ about his service that will create an RSS feed for a site that doesn't have one -- yes, I've used a lot of "scraper" services like that (MyRSS, etc.) and they're useful if you can't get anything directly published by the site -- but too often all I get from such scrapers is the headline of recent articles. And if the publisher's headlines aren't written in an intuitive style that stands alone well, the results of scraper feeds often just leave me scratching my head. Plus, scraper feeds tend to miss non-article forms of content -- backgrounder pages, product announcements, press releases, event calendars, etc. Therefore, ultimately the solution that would best serve online publishers and their audiences would be for the publishers to just go ahead and create their own feeds, to make sure the audience is getting everything they need (and everything the publisher wants them to get). Feed scrapers are definitely valuable while RSS feeds are uncommon on Web sites, however. It's a good "bridge" service while this media channel evolves. - Amy Gahran Post a comment |
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