I had a few free moments at the end of the work day Friday, and decided to
play around with RSS and XML.
The end result of which is, if you are interested, you can now get a
syndication feed of TheaterReview.com by adding theaterreview to your
friends list.
Whenever anyone posts a new review, it should pop up.
So, all the reviews of Kudzu Playhouse and OnStage Atlanta you could ever
want… for free!
Serious question. How is this better than simply hitting the refresh button on the page?
I have been trying to grok RSS for some time. I use it for identifying new editions of my daily podcasts, but it seems to be overkill for that. I just don’t get it.
(yes, this is a serious question, I am not being snarky or sarcastic.)
I think it’s just better because you don’t have to hit the refresh button on 12 or 15 of your favorite websites.
I downloaded an RSS aggregator, Shark something or other, and put a few RSS feeds on it. Whenever someone posts something new to any of those sites, a little alert window pops up temporarily in the lower righthand corner of my desktop. One stop shopping, so to speak.
I dunno. Just another way of delivering content on this crazy Arpanet.
Ok. I suppose.
I guess I am just used to switching tabs on firefox and tapping the F5 key for latest information.
My suspicion is that this is probably more useful to people who are used to working with Windows, and it matches some expectation they have.
Thanks to RSS, I seldom have to leave my LJ Friends list! Further proof that LJ is taking over my life.
Except that I can only get certain RSS feeds to feed correctly, as noted. That’s kind of annoying.
I have not taken enough advantage of feeds. But I shall rectify that.
Oh yes, I shall.