What's an RSS Channel?

July 3, 2001 10:59 AM

What's an RSS Channel?, and Why?
posted by ParisParamus to MetaFilter-Related at 10:59 AM (9 comments total)

http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+RSS
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:40 AM on July 3, 2001

Here's how and why for weblogs.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:45 AM on July 3, 2001

Thanks. Interesting.
posted by ParisParamus at 12:30 PM on July 3, 2001

If you'd like to read MetaFilter and other RSS sources on Windows, one good reader program is AmphetaDesk.
posted by rcade at 1:12 PM on July 3, 2001

That same page also offers AmphetaDesk for Macintosh.
posted by aaron at 5:12 PM on July 3, 2001

What's Macintosh?, and Why?

:-)
posted by jpoulos at 1:11 PM on July 5, 2001

Do any of these RSS channels ever get updated? I've gone through a number of them and found that most of the latest news is really out of date; MeFi's last news entry is sometime in June. I'd really like to use this capability but if the XML file isn't regularly updated, what's the point?
posted by Big Fat Tycoon at 8:37 PM on July 7, 2001

yes, many people have rss feeds that update. i don't that my.userland.com is particularly good at keeping up. (if you look at the page linked above, it says something at the bottom of the page about how it doesn't like the format of the feed provided by mefi.)
posted by jimw at 11:37 PM on July 7, 2001

There are plenty of live-action RSS channels. I try to feature several each day on my newsfeeds weblog.

posted by jeffbarr at 10:36 AM on July 12, 2001