Sun, 07 Mar 2004

Mar 07, 2004, 22:25 [home/perl_scripts]
News Feed Works

Cool! I’ve made use of my news feed on Intelliscript.net!

Instead of starting a new blog on Intelliscript.net to manage news regarding my scripts there, I wrote a script to read and parse my XML news feed (RSS) and place it on the home page. It’s always an exact copy of what’s on my CrookedBush.com blogs under scripts!

Grabbing the feed and parsing it for display on Intelliscript is a little slower than I like, so I may modify it to update to a text file once a day or something like that. But the basic idea is working well.

Once I get getChurch.org’s blog of our newsletter Inside up and running, I plan on creating a news feed for that as well so the top 4 or 5 headlines can be put on any site using simple JavaScript. We have the technology!.

If only we had the technology to get the script running. The dear-friends at Blacksun.ca hosting are (how can I say this nicely?) not as skilled as I would like.

The script is reading the .cgi/.pl extension as a Blosxom flavour, which is very strange. They want me to use a different script— ain’t gonna happen. I’ll move to a new server first.

I may have to hack flavours out of Blosxom, which is no great loss as I already wrote a Blosxom plugin to use my script SiteSkinner.

~Jason

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Mar 07, 2004, 15:28 [home]
RSS Could Be More Useful

I was visiting this blog, the maker of my pocket pc RSS reader and found this interesting post, from this site:

When i first started using RSS, i was ecstatic. Rather than relying on going to each person’s page, i could just throw them all in one place and go through them. I’m a bit more disillusioned now. I got all excited and started adding every blog that had an interesting thread. Almost humorously, i started breaking after about 150 regularly updated blogs. Worse: i miss half of the interesting posts that i want to read because i’m too overwhelmed. This made me sit back and think about what kind of an RSS feed i want.