Mikel Maron has released a tool for embedding geolocation data in an RSS feed.
For the record, there is already an RSS module that does the same thing: the ICBM RSS Module. It can be applied to entire feeds and/or single entries.
Update: Thanks to Jim [old blog new blog] for pointing out MTLocation, which allows you to geolocate your Movable Type blog.
Another Update: I got an email from Mikel. He’s going to look into using the ICBM module. Cool!
You know you’re a geek when a friend asks you to drop him a line, and you get it via RSS.
I was looking at one of my favorite sections of Craig’s List DC: the Computer and Tech forsale section.
I was thinking that it would be excellent to have this information in my RSS aggregator, so I viewed the source of the page, curious how hard it would be to scrape. In doing so, I found this gem:
<link rel=alternate type=application/rss+xml href=index.rss title="Craigslist - computers & tech in washington, DC">
I added index.rss to the end of the usual URL, and lo and behold, there is a valid RSS feed. It’s RSS 1.0 for those of you keeping score.
Does anyone know how long this has been out there? Needless to say, I’m subscribed.
It also looks like their local job listings have an RSS feed. Rock on! Also, because they use the <link/> tag in their HTML, it’s RSS autodiscoverable!
Jonathan Rentzsh has tweaked his copy of NetNewsWire to better fit his widescreen Mac. He has also published the steps that you can take to do the same.
I was having network trouble earlier today, so here’s a quick roundup instead of the rant that wouldn’t post:
I’m getting on a plane in a few hours, but I’ve got to clear out some news first:
Of course the exciting stuff happens while I’m going to have limited connectivity. It looks like I’ll have quite a bit of catch up to do when I get back.
I’ll be moblogging at my textamerica moblog, and might even set up a webserver while I’m at the airport.
You know you’re slacking when your Dad gives you shit about not posting to your blog in a week.
I’m going to be away from my weblog for the next few days. I’ll be following some news on my WAP Aggregator, but will do my best to mostly unplug. I’ll be back late Sunday and I plan to start catching up Monday morning.
Mark has released an Atom 0.2 Snapshot. It includes some changes from the 0.1 snapshot, and also omits some things that are still in flux on the wiki.
I was able to produce a valid Pie/Echo/Atom feed in just a few minutes using MovableType. All I did was grab Mark’s template, two plugins: UTCDate and LastModified, and rebuilt my indexes.
It should also be trivial for TypePad to deploy Atom 0.2 feeds system wide. I would assume a blosxom (or similar) template wouldn’t be hard to put together either.
It just gets better from here.
Via freshmeat, Syndigator is another RSS feed reader in typical three-pane style under Linux.
I do like the ability to easily validate a feed:
Three new options were added to feed drop-down menu, including the very useful “Validate RSS”.
TheServerSide notes Macromedia’s RSS Untangle, part of the $99 Macromedia DevNet Volume 4.
It looks like there are lots of other goodies in that package, it might be worth checking out.
Typepad is set to roll out a public preview release on Monday. They’ve also released their pricing and features in three flavours: Basic ($4.95/mo) Plus ($8.95/mo) and Pro ($14.95/mo), which seems quite reasonable. The bang/buck ratio is in your favor.
If you’re thinking about signing up on monday, let me know and I can swing you a 20% discount.
A lot of work has gone into making Typepad rock.
Clemens Vasters released DasBlog today. DasBlog is a server-side blogging environment, derived from BlogX. It is released uner a BSD license, so do with it as you please. It runs under version 1.1 of the .NET environment.
Cool, thanks for the donation to the community, Clemens and contributors.
I stumbled across Leo Laporte’s moblog this morning at Textamerica.
RSS-subscribed.
Via Freshmeat, here’s NewsSpotter:
News Spotter is an RSS headline viewer. It distinguishes itself from similar applications through its minimalist user interface, which proactively displays an alert upon receipt of additional news items.
You can snag a tarball or a zip file, or find more info on Sean Gallagher’s blog. It looks like it is written in Java. It reminds me of WinAmp for RSS.
Rael has pushed Blosxom 2.0 out the door:
I’m thrilled to announce that Blosxom 2.0 has been released today. For those not in the know, blosxom (pronounced “blossom”) is a lightweight yet feature-packed weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind.
He has also rolled out blosxom.com. I’ve been using the 2.0 betas for quite some time now on a test basis, and they’ve been behaving quite well. Blosxom 2.0 has tons of gooey plugins for your enjoyment.
This just in: Russ is out to lunch. And here I thought it was common knowledge… 🙂
Jake Savin says that UserLand is working on Trackback for Radio, but it’s not out yet.
Update: Here’s the beta. Remember, it’s a beta so it could hose your blog completely.
Spread the meme: John Robb is now blogging at MindPlex.org. I’ve subscribed to his RSS feed of course.