[TriLUG] possibly OT - RSS feeds, popular portals, etc.

[Nathan Conrad]

I suggest that you try validating your feed using "feedvalidator" at
http://feedvalidator.org/ . It doesn't catch everything, but it
catches many errors.

Personally, I like Liferea....

-Nathan

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:56:03PM -0400, David McDowell wrote:
> All,
> 
> As this isn't directly related to linux, with exception of the fact
> that my RSS (.xml file) feed is hosted on my web server running
> linux... this may be OT.
> 
> We are looking at using RSS as a way to give our customers who take
> advantage of RSS a simple way of knowing when we update an important
> form on our website.  I have tested my RSS feed with Mozilla Firefox,
> Mozilla Thunderbird, ipodder (http://ipodder.sf.net), MyYahoo! and MSN
> news portals and it works with all of them.  The only thing I noticed
> is MSN seems to ignore my <pubDate></pubDate> tag in the XML file and
> claims the item is only as old as when it showed up in the MSN
> window... anyway, that's besides the point, just FYI.
> 
> Are there other portals people are using... those 2 web portals are
> obviously large and popular with people... and I'm talking joe and
> jane here, not uber geek tools.  Are there any others I should test
> with?  I will be writing a how-to for the non-savvy who want to try to
> use this technology to track our forms which will include the most
> popular methods of receiving RSS feeds.
> 
> NetNewWire may be another, but I'm not sure if it is cross-platform, etc.
> 
> thanks,
> David McD
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