I seem to keep forgetting to take a look at the nifty Blogdigger service- a site that allows you to drop in a pile of RSS feeds, and have it return to you a single RSS that represents a combination of all the content. And there is more every time I go back. My experiment […]
I’d say it is nothing new these days to highlight or discover a new use of weblogs… No wait a minute, it still is interesting to see what pops up on the blog-o-verse. I’ve been at it since April 2003 and have helped a few groups and individuals in our system get started including 3 […]
I cannot breathe! The feeds are swirling! Snatding on the shoulders of giants, Brian Lamb and David Wiley (imitation and flattery apply here) I mixed up my furl bookmarks and flickr photos with the cogdog feeds and voila! the uber feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/cogdogblog This just rocks! I have just skimmed the surface of feed burner, but […]
More fun for Greg at Blogdigger 😉 My colleague Brian Lamb shared some nifty web resources for a class he is teaching at University of British Columbia. Remember, Rip-Mix-Burn… Specifically, he has created (rip) a Bloggdigger Group (a collection of chosen RSS feeds), that is itself turned into an RSS feed (mix), and is embedded […]
A few clicks back I had played with a test Blogdigger collection – this is a service that allows you to take a pile of web/RSS feeds, and then have that itself be able to collapse into its own feed- an uber feed if you will. My test was to build up a collection of […]
Today I cleaned my desk of paper piles, revamped the “todo” list that overflows from my whiteboard, and finished up a little experiment I had started on our ePortfolio site. Audree Thurman, the clever programmer of this nifty system, had developed a nifty approach for RSS feeds. There is a web page version (human readable) […]
I cannot remember why I started down this MT template path, but it was a fun journey. Somehow I stumbled into Phil Ringnalda’s explanation on how to create RSS feeds for individual entries and comments.
This seemed interesting- often when you write a comment to someone else’s blog, there is no way to follow a discussion unless you remember to return to the comment (some blogs have email notifiers). Comments end up being tossed like darts with no followup.
I began addressing this on CDB by including a link to the RSS feed for all comments from this blog. Not good enough.
With a bit of wrangling and quite a bit of modifications from Phil’s original template, I got it going. Every individual entry on this blog has its own RSS feed that includes as items:
For example, this recent entry is nice because it has 2 comments and 2 Trackback pings:
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/08/17/rip_mix_feed.php
it has its own individual RSS feed with just the comments and pings from the entry:
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/08/17/rip_mix_feed.xml
Unfortunately, I am now tired and perhaps unable to explain the magic…
Within three hours of writing yesterday about Blogdigger (an RSS feed combiner that returns a group of feeds as a single feed), I got a nice comment from Greg at Bloggdigger who let me know that the filtering tools were still being tinkered. It’s rewarding to get direct responses like that from the folks directly […]
FYI and for self (and colleague Brian Lamb) promotion… if you are attending EDUCAUSE 2004 (October in Denver), sign up now for our pre-conference seminar Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, TrackBack, and Related Technologies: Customized collections of learning objects from multiple repositories are achieved with simple, existing RSS protocols, creating access […]
Apple had the perhaps now ill-fated “Rip, Mix, Burn” concept for music– I am looking for something similar (less lawyer intensive) for RSS feeds. It is taking feeds breaking them apart, and rebuilding them into something new. We can rebuild ’em. Stronger. Faster. The Six Million Dollar Feed…. So it goes: Rip a few RSS […]
