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The Daily Mail site redesign: Part 1 - Navigation & RSS
Way back when I first started the currybetdotnet blog, the Daily Mail was one of the first newspapers to get its own category, as I alternated between writing about BBCi Search and having a go at the Mail's coverage of things like London's telephone numbering system. These days, I try very hard to keep my honest appraisal of the Daily Mail's site functionality apart from my occasional irritation with the editorial coverage in the paper of things like games and...

Read the full post - Published June 23, 2008 in Articles, Daily Mail, Newspapers, RSS, Web

The BBC need a TARDIS to transport their Doctor Who RSS URLs
There was an astonishing message in the official BBC Doctor Who News RSS feed yesterday: Now that we've switched over to our shiny new site, our news stories are being created in a different way. Therefore you'll no longer see news stories added to this page. Instead, you'll find them if you follow the link below. More importantly, if you subscribe to our RSS news feed using the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/syndication/rss091.xml you'll need to update it to: http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/rss.xml That way you'll...

Read the full post - Published April 23, 2008 in BBC, Doctor Who, RSS

'RSS Feeds: Managing the Mechanism' article for FUMSI
I've contributed an article about managing your consumption of RSS feeds to the Manage area of the FUMSI site - 'RSS Feeds: Managing the Mechanism'. If you get the FreePint newsletter you may have already seen the promotional blurb for the article. "Martin Belam explains the ins and outs of RSS -- not the technology or mechanics of it, but the nitty-gritty of managing yet another information stream on a desktop already close to bursting with resources. He provides practical...

Read the full post - Published March 28, 2008 in Articles, FUMSI, RSS

Making the most of blog comments: Part 6 - Making a unified blog post and comment feed with Yahoo! Pipes
I've been writing a series of posts looking at various aspects of implementing comments on blogs. This week I've been concentrating on the way that blog comments can be output as RSS. Yesterday I explained how to add a recent comments RSS feed to Movable Type. Today I want to look at how you can publish one feed from your blog, which features both the entries written by the author, and the comments left by users. What I want...

Read the full post - Published February 28, 2008 in Blogging, RSS, Yahoo

Making the most of blog comments: Part 5 - 'Recent comment' RSS feed template for Movable Type
I've been writing a series of posts looking at the best ways to implement comments on blogs. Although one of the often championed features of the blogosphere is the 'conversation', not all blogging platforms make it easy for users to track their part of the conversation. One way to facilitate that is to provide streams of the comments added to a site in the RSS format. Although there doesn't seem to be a huge take-up for this kind of...

Read the full post - Published February 27, 2008 in Blogging, RSS

Making the most of blog comments: Part 4 - Do people read comments via RSS?
I'm doing a series of posts about the way that people implement comments on blog sites. I started by looking at the methods that can be used to promote comments prominently to users, and then undertook a survey of 100 blogs to get a feel for which ways were popular. I found, thanks in part to the growth of Wordpress as a platform, that distributing RSS feeds of comments was being increasingly used, either on a 'per blog' or...

Read the full post - Published February 26, 2008 in Blogging, Bloglines, Google, RSS

IA Summit bloggers mash-up feed
Last week I published a list of 37 bloggers who are participating in the 2008 IA Summit in Miami in April. As well as in individual list, there was an OPML file to allow you import all of the sites into your feed reader of choice in one go. I've now put together an alternative way to subscribe to them. I've mashed 35 of the feeds together using the awesome Yahoo! Pipes - partly thanks to Kevin Cheng who features...

Read the full post - Published February 4, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, RSS, Yahoo

IA Summit bloggers
The programme for the 2008 IA Summit features 100 people either talking, hosting workshops or presenting posters. I was interested to see how many of those have blogs, and thought it might help shape my opinions as to which sessions I shall be attending at the conference. Having done the legwork to trawl through the list looking for bloggers, I also thought it might be nice to share. I found 37 participants with personal blogs that looked active. I've...

Read the full post - Published January 31, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, RSS

Now the Daily Express RSS feeds are in Latin
There is something very wrong with the RSS feeds from the Daily Express - and I don't just mean that the constant focus on Diana makes it look like they are ten years out-of-date. I've already written about how I had to pull the Express content from the Chipwrapper sports feed, as the stories in it still have Sam Allardyce at Newcastle, and Fabio Capello denying links with Liverpool - December 5th was the last time the feed updated. I've...

Read the full post - Published January 15, 2008 in Daily Express, Newspapers, RSS

Gene Marks is dangerously wrong about "Tech 'solutions' your small biz can't use"
A couple of days ago via the extremely useful Sphinn I was directed to an article on MSNBC by Gene Marks - "Tech 'Solutions' Your Small Biz Can't Use". In amongst it he lists RSS, blogs, SEO and Web 2.0 as tech that have no uses for the small business. Once I'd spluttered out my coffee and started hammering my outraged response, I realised it was a great bit of linkbait designed to get lots of people frothing at the...

Read the full post - Published January 8, 2008 in Blogging, RSS, Web, YouTube

More RSS errors - The Sun and The Express

Published December 16, 2007 in Daily Express, RSS, The Sun

The Sun's broken RSS still affecting Chipwrapper one month on

Published December 5, 2007 in Newspapers, RSS, The Sun

BBC RSS subscription league table for English & Scottish football teams

Published November 23, 2007 in BBC, Football, Google, RSS

Top 50 BBC Podcasts in Google Reader

Published November 22, 2007 in BBC, Google, RSS

Top 100 BBC RSS feeds in Google Reader

Published November 21, 2007 in BBC, Google, RSS

British newspaper RSS subscriptions in Google Reader

Published November 5, 2007 in Google, Newspapers, RSS

Daily Sport brand hi-jacked by Russian RSS squatters

Published November 4, 2007 in Newspapers, RSS

Top 100 British newspaper feeds in Google Reader

Published November 2, 2007 in Google, Newspapers, RSS

The Daily Star's unique approach to promoting RSS feeds

Published October 30, 2007 in Daily Star, Newspapers, RSS

The Telegraph's scatter-gun approach to related RSS feeds

Published June 26, 2007 in Daily Telegraph, Media, Newspapers, RSS

The BBC's Editors blog links to currybetdotnet - and illustrates one of the downsides of RSS

Published June 22, 2007 in BBC, Blogging, RSS

British newspaper and blog feeds OPML file listed on Grazr

Published June 21, 2007 in Blogging, Newspapers, RSS, Widgets

Today is the deadline for opting out of Feedburner handing all of their usage data to Google

Published June 15, 2007 in Google, RSS

Extra URLs for the Guardian Gamesblog in Bloglines

Published June 14, 2007 in Bloglines, Games, Media, Newspapers, RSS, The Guardian

RSS article in the Press Gazette this week

Published June 12, 2007 in Media, Newspapers, RSS, Web

Newspapers 2.0: OPML file for British newspaper RSS feeds

Published June 7, 2007 in Bloglines, Media, Newspapers, RSS, Web

Twitter polluting Google search results for news topics

Published June 6, 2007 in BBC, CNN, France 24, Google, RSS

Newspapers 2.0: OPML files for The Telegraph and The Mirror blogs by author

Published June 5, 2007 in Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Newspapers, RSS

Bloglines subscriptions numbers and OPML file for The Guardian's Comment Is Free site

Published June 1, 2007 in Bloglines, Media, Newspapers, RSS, The Guardian, Web

BBC Complaints site in RSS

Published February 11, 2005 in BBC, RSS

Converting BBC Sport RSS feeds to WML

Published June 23, 2004 in BBC, Mobiles, RSS

Expose your MP with RSS

Published June 13, 2004 in Politics, RSS, Web

Email to RSS conversion

Published October 17, 2003 in RSS

Roaming web-based RSS aggregation from Bloglines

Published August 25, 2003 in Bloglines, RSS