New RSS Feed for Bag of URLs
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 21st, 2003 5:31 pm
Give me a free hour and there goes another new RSS Feed. Since 1996, we have been accumulating some 4000 interesting web sites in our web’s eye view bag of urls.
Essentially the format for the content is a site title, URL, and description (does that sound like RSS or what?)
The site has an entire back end admin system where any visitor can submit a site via our drop it in the bag form. New items go into a temp holding area, until we can review them. The added feature now posts approved sites to the new Bag of URLs RSS feed.
Typically, we wait until 30-40 items have filled the bag, and then our script generates a new web page for the most recent bag and posts a copy to an archive. We then send out notices and a link to those subscribed to our webs eye view mailing list.
The bag pages are static ones (for now) and are not updated as web sites have their links rot. But we do run link checks on the sites that sit in the searchable collection.
Building on the tools for other recently add RSS feeds Teaching and Learning site and DirectorWeb made this a baby step.
July 22nd, 2003 at 7:59 am
Now that ‘drop it in the bag’ form looks a perfect candidate for a bookmarklet
July 22nd, 2003 at 8:07 am
You are correct, as usual
I dabbled in this about a year ago and something went afoul or I got distracted or stuck on some committee.
Yes, it should be easy to grab the site title and URL, blip a web form to prompt for a description (maybe even make the default the selected text, and then submit it.
Hmmm. Maybe you can help if I get stuck again?
July 22nd, 2003 at 9:18 am
It was easier to build than I thought:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/
July 29th, 2003 at 11:02 am
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