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Thursday, July 11, 2002

RSS Feeds for Non-News Sites

But why is it good?

The two sites are industry-specific portals WhatTheyThink.com and PDFZone.com. Neither of these sites, like most in the print and publishing industries, offer RSS feeds that can be read in an aggregator. PDFZone provides a nice little JavaScript for publishing their headlines on your own webpage, but that isn't useful to me. WTT.com doesn't offer anything as far as I can tell.

I just want a headline scan in my aggregator along with all my other news. And thanks to Paschal's Kit Radio Tool, I can also group all of my industry-specific feeds (custom or otherwise) together. So now I can begin building an industry section in my News Reader and create a group of feeds that pertain specifically to vendors, competitors, industry portals, etc.

Soon I'll be able to quick scan all the key industry news without having to worry about going to each site unless there is something of specific interest. If there is an article of interest, I have the direct link to it in front of me and, better, I can immediately post it for this site. Pretty cool. Thanks Mark. I owe you dinner next time I'm in Chattanooga.

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