Bermuda Sun gets RSS feed
The good news: the Bermuda Sun has become Bermuda's first newspaper to get an RSS feed. The link isn't visible on the homepage, but it can be found in the 'News' section, suggesting that feeds for other sections of the paper may also be in the works.
The bad news: the feed isn't up to date. Right now it contains just three stories: two are from Friday's edition and the third is the Opposition's Budget reply, published online earlier this week.
Nevertheless, it's progress.
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Great News! Finally.... A local newspaper with an RSS feed!
Whats an RSS Feed?
Posted by Slowhand on 01.03.06 at 19:37
This is great news. I wish more Bermuda-based sites had RSS feeds. E-moo is a prime example of one which could really do with it...
Posted by ParadiseFound on 01.03.06 at 19:44
yes, what is RSS feed?
Posted by WyrdSister on 01.03.06 at 19:46
is an RSS Feed what you have for breakfast when you're really hungover?
Posted by tong on 01.03.06 at 20:01
nope that's a GFU (greasy fry-up)lol
Posted by WyrdSister on 01.03.06 at 20:04
well goddamn,
they need to get one of those instead... much better.
Posted by tong on 01.03.06 at 20:07
Limes, would you be so kind as to put up a sort of primer on RSS feeds? Like, what they are, how they work, how to get 'em etc...
Posted by Uncle Elvis on 01.03.06 at 20:11
Actually a SDF or Saline Drip Feed does work wonders for a hang-over.....
Posted by SmokingGun on 01.03.06 at 20:12
as long as its not "Really Sick Swan Feed"
Posted by tong on 01.03.06 at 20:22
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for sharing and distributing Web content, such as news headlines. Using an RSS reader, you can view data feeds from various news sources, such as CNN.com, including headlines, summaries, links to full stories.
Posted by observor on 01.03.06 at 20:29
RSS is a family of XML file formats for Web syndication used by (among other things) news websites and weblogs. The abbreviation is used to refer to the following standards:
* Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)
* RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.* and 1.0)
* Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0.0)
The technology of RSS allows Internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds; these are typically sites that change or add content regularly. To use this technology, site owners create or obtain specialized software (such as a content management system) which, in the machine-readable XML format, presents new articles in a list, giving a line or two of each article and a link to the full article or post. Unlike subscriptions to many printed newspapers and magazines, most RSS subscriptions are free.
The RSS formats provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content, and other meta-data. This information is delivered as an XML file called an RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. In addition to facilitating syndication, RSS allows a website's frequent readers to track updates on the site using an aggregator.
Posted by observor on 01.03.06 at 20:31
An RSS feed is a way of making it easy for you to stay up-to-date with information from multiple websites.
Suppose you like to get your international news from the BBC and CNN websites; you visit Limey in Bermuda, politics.bm and IMHO.bm for local gossip; and www.joystiq.com for the latest news on computer games.
The usual way of doing this is to use your web browser to visit each site in turn and look for what's new. But that's not particulaly convenient. It's time-consuming. You might get to the site and see nothing has changed. Or you might forget to check a site and miss a story.
Compare this to the way email works. You don't ring up your friends every day to ask them what's new. If they've got something to tell you, they can send you an email. You then use a program such as Outlook or Hotmail to collect these emails together in one place, where you can read all their news at once.
A website that provides an RSS feed is a bit like a friend who emails you. Once you have subscribed to the RSS feed, the website will publish a message to tell you when there's something new to read. Instead of using Outlook or Hotmail to read these messages you use a piece of software called a news reader, such as Omea Reader or Bloglines. These pull all the messages from the feeds to which you have subscribed into one place. Instead of having to visit every website, you just open your news reader and scroll through each item, just as you read your emails.
Some web browsers are starting to include RSS support, so you don't even necessarily need to use a separate news reader. Firefox already has built-in support for subscribing to RSS feeds, called 'Live Bookmarks'. The next version of Internet Explorer, to be released later this year, will also allow you to subscribe directly to RSS feeds.
For more information, check out the BBC's introduction to RSS.
Posted by Phil on 01.03.06 at 20:37