I am not in too many (or maybe zero) Yahoo Groups (and if so I never have them sent to clutter my email) but this Yahoo Groups RSS URI Generator is ideal for keeping updated on public groups without trudging through the Yahoo site.
This page contains JavaScript that will accept a Yahoo group name and return a URI pointing to it’s RSS file.Yahoo Groups that have made their archive of messages publicly readable can automatically produce an RSS feed. It’s one of the little-known features of Yahoo Groups. It can be a handy way to ‘keep tabs’ on what’s happening in groups that you prefer not to read all the time. There are some groups that if you read them regularly you tend to waste a LOT of time. Using an RSS feed can help you avoid the temptations.
Again- RSS lets me customize the stuff I want rather than some service thinks I want. It is kind of funny that these services are low profile on sites implementing RSS (like Yahoo, Wired, Amazon…) as opposed to us puny bloggers that usually scream out HERE IS MY RSS! THREE KINDS! GET IT! USE IT! A’INT IT COOL?
<tiphat>tip of the blog hat to ResearchBuzz (they have RSS too!)</tiphat>
Hey Alan, you seem to be the edublogger keeping track of all of the burgeoning alternative uses for RSS so I thought I’d throw this in the comments here:
http://www.eightlinks.com/features/000666.html#000666
It appears that he’s trying to build a generalizable RSSifyer that also will deal with authentication and forms. Seemed like a neat idea. Cheers, Scott.