rss feeds???

Jul 16, 2006 18:23

can anyone tell me what rss is, and what an rss feed is, and how can i do it?

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haze July 16 2006, 14:27:13 UTC
RSS is a syndication. Can't remember the exact names of the acronym at the moment.
An RSS feed is just an XML file that has a basic summary of information. The information can be read and displayed by an aggregator. There are lots of them about these days, especially if you're using a mac. I can't remember what windows programs read RSS but a quick google search would solve that.
The RSS feed for your journal is at http://bikkie.livejournal.com/data/rss but it only contains information for public entries.
You can add RSS feeds to your LJ friends page to know when a website has new content. There is a list of feeds [here] that people have already set up. New feeds can be set up via [this page] but you have to be a paid user/earlyadopter to utilise that function.

... and that's all I have to say about that.

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bikkie July 17 2006, 12:28:48 UTC
thanks dude. so i can't add my own feeds. that sucks. poolah! it would be great to have all my fave sites updated in one portal.

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