Grrr… SharpReader, the news reader I use to read RSS feeds, just crashed on me, and lost all my feeds—data and URLs. After I’d added four of the new Amazon feeds. Shit. Oh, well. Fortunately, I had a recent backup of the OPML for my feeds, so I was able to get them back quickly.
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Amazon RSS
Another piece of news everyone pointed to yesterday: Amazon is now offering RSS feeds. A list of all their feeds can be found at the Amazon.com Syndicated Content page. Looks like they’re offering feeds for each top-level category in their hierarchy. The next logical step, of course, would be to offer a personalized RSS feed… Continue reading Amazon RSS
PHP XML Benchmark
Interesting PHP benchmark of parsing XML showed up on PHP Everywhere. In High Speed XML Parsing is Not Intuitive, John Lim tested five methods of extracting the title element from an XML RSS feed. Surprising results; the regular expression match was by far the fastest, and I would have thought the SAX parsing (based on… Continue reading PHP XML Benchmark
RSS as Poor Man’s Copyright
These ideas have been rolling around my brain for a while, fermenting, percolating, but bear with me if they might still be a little incoherent. It’s really the first time I’ve put words to them. Perhaps you’ve heard of the “poor man’s copyright.” The idea behind it is to provide yourself copyright protection without actually… Continue reading RSS as Poor Man’s Copyright
Ebay RSS
This site has implemented the idea I previously wrote about and is generating RSS feeds based on custom eBay searches. Very nice. (I can’t lay claim to giving them the idea, only that they had a similar idea to mine.) Via Scripting News.
Ebay as Weblog
It struck me yesterday as I watched my wife surf eBay and eBay-related sites (like DisturbingAuctions.com) that eBay et. al. functions as a vast weblog for some people the same way that “traditional” weblogs function for people like me. Or more precisely, eBay fills the same needs for some people that weblogs fill for others.… Continue reading Ebay as Weblog
Navel Gazing
I’ve been reviewing the web server logs for my site, and decided to self-indulge and post some interesting stats here online to bore you all. Read on if you’re interested. The 10 most popular pages, in order: Free Palm Reader eBooks Home page What’s Your Matrix Name? rss.xml (syndicated XML feed) HTML to Text Converter… Continue reading Navel Gazing
About RSS
Warning: technical entry. Feel free to skip if you’re so inclined. Today I’m talking about RSS. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it’s essentially a format for delivering data and content in an XML (read: structured) format. What kind of content? Well, any kind, really. Right now, the types of content you’ll most likely… Continue reading About RSS