message query for rss feeds

KML

Created some kml files from my pub / restaurant data on Folkestone Gerald, part of my plan to clean up my maps and things, kml is a standard that's been adopted by google for google earth and maps and things, and is possibly better suited than my exi...

Some popbitch updates

Had a quiet night in last night, while Clare was out down Chambers with her bro, putting the world to rights. So, did some coding that I'd meant to do for ages, and put a new "new" feature on the popbitch board; posts that are new since your last vis...

popbitch redesign and contest!

See the contest on the homepage, don't enter it though, I want to win! If you really want a Gibson Les Paul, make a video and win a Slash limited edition.Everyone hates the new design. It's not my design, it's not really anyone's any more, bits have ...

Google Maps hacks

I'm sure you've checked out Saturday's walk around Canterbury by now, I've merged in the photos that I took along the way now too. Involved a bit of a hack really, Flickr offers a geocoded feed of my photos, and will let me narrow that down to say ju...

New JSON feed of my blog

Oh that'll come in handy for all those mashups based around me you've been planning... Not a straight feed of what I post every day, it searches the content of the site, probably seven or eight years worth of postings now. JSON is "javascript object ...

Oh yes, I just noticed an enormous traffic spike

I must have submit my rss to podcast.com a while ago when I posted some mp3's... you want to be filtering out the feeds you use, looking to see if they really do have enclosures of the right type.Or maybe I should look at my feed, I think I probably ...

Radio drama

Here's that radio drama I mentioned last week, it's a 7meg download. It's rubbish, but if you're subscribed to here via the medium of RSS, you might get it downloaded automatically podcast stylee.I'm still having trouble getting this working on vario...

Ooh, gmail web clips

New feature added to gmail today, little web clips popping up at the top of my email, like this:It didn't know automatically that I was in Folkestone (though maybe it could by analysing my mails, hmm) but it throws in interesting stuff and you can cu...

Google news feeds

Cool, I can incorporate news search feeds from google... Will save a bit of copying and pasting!

BBC Backstage

Backstage access to BBC news etc... for developers, to make something funky out of BBC content. What should I do? Oh, not actually a lot there from the beeb yet except links to all their RSS feeds, and some user contributed ideas for BBC Hacks. Some ...

odd thing is though that when you copy the rss feed, change the url and rename it, the top page remains the same - click the unexpanded folder in bookmarks in the browser and you get the old homepage. the feeds update ok though.

Yahoo RSS

Nice of my.yahoo.com to report back on who's subscribing to Folkestone Restaurants RSS feed... no-one is! Well, one person, and that's me... here's just came through in the logs;http:oc2.my.scd.yahoo.net - - [18/Oct/2004:16:50:52 +0100] "GET /rss.xml...

ipodder.org

Not entirely sure what ipodder or podcasting is yet, but www.ipodder.org seems to refer to some of the same ideas as the "how the music biz can live forever" article the other day, ie IPODs filling themselves with content, like a TIVO... Seems to be ...

Feedster

Some sort of RSS feed aggregator, submitting a few of my feeds to try and get a bit more linkage going on...No Need to Click Here - I'm just claiming my feed at Feedster.I see the Engadget RSS feed has images in it, but this is not done with the RSS ...

RSS

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: All that info below is well out of date, I do have a new PHP based RSS querying thing which I'm using in my AJAX apps now.Just reasserting what I'm doing with RSS here... my list of feeds from this site can be found here, and he...

Other people's blogs

It's time for a roundup of things I've lazily ripped off www.casino-avenue.co.uk before heading home, first this piece about metblogs, interesting. I am trying REALLY HARD to read something rude into "soliciting... advertising" but I can't quite make...

URL Encoding

Had a hiccup when trying to make content management system convert any content that's past through it to be valid HTML... my code for converting ampersands in URLs was messing about, making some bad URLs... so how do I convert & into & without co...

Harvard guide to RSS

It's probably based on something else, but I found this helpful in learning about RSS, I've made some changes to my RSS feeds based on this... Going to use this on more of the work sites too.PopEx is behaving well today, and I'm feeling quite spritel...

Oops

made a bit of a mess of the site on Saturday, just before I was due to head out for Mark's birthday, typed "rm init.pl" instead of "vi init.pl", no backup of this file or anything... so had to try and recreate it from scratch. Luckily it's just confi...

BBC RSS feeds

Lots of RSS feeds from the BBC here...

Big Brother RSS feed

Getting quite into Big Brother, and combining this with IPOD Agent I'm after finding a Big Brother RSS feed... if there's not one out there I might have to make one...My RSS feeds are here....

IPOD Agent

Downloaded this at the weekend, and have found it quite ace - it grabs RSS feeds from wherever you like (get my RSS here) and converts them and the pages they link to into IPOD notes... so this morning I was able to read Google news, this website, w...