Re: ASA RSS feed

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:13:45 -0700, Terry M. Gray
<grayt@lamar.colostate.edu> wrote:
> To all the Geeks on the list:
>
> ASA now has it's own RSS feed. We'll see how useful it becomes. If
> you are already and RSS user, the feed is at
> http://www.asa3.org/rss/index.rss. You will know what to do.
>
> For those of you who aren't RSS users, if you click on the above URL
> you will get a bunch of messy text (unless your browser knows how to
> to deal with RSS, like the new Safari RSS from Apple).
>
> You'll need a RSS desktop client for your computer. Here's an article
> about RSS in case you want to learn more.
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html It gets kind
> of technical by the end. Here's a Google page of some clients or
> readers:
> http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Technical_Services/Cataloguing/Metadata/RDF/Applications/RSS/News_Readers/
>
> One use that might relate to the discussion list is that we could
> post a daily list of active threads. This could attract other
> participants.
>
> For now, as you can see if you subscribe, we're mostly pointing to
> what's new on the web site.
>
> Spread the word. RSS seems to be becoming an important way of
> promoting your site's content.
>
> TG

Firefox and Opera also deal with RSS feeds. Let's see ... what browser
is not on the list? Hmm... I use www.bloglines.com as a web-based RSS
feed reader. I'll subscribe to it there. One thing that this does is
make our discussion searchable by a wider variety of people.
Received on Wed Jan 5 19:26:18 2005