There's no doubt that a rss feed for logical queries like
/worldservice/news/caribbean/weather/ would make a lot of sense but as Jason
was highlighting, different parts of the BBC are at different stages and any
pan BBC project to unite all would be troublesome at best. If you also times in
the fact most people still don't fully get RSS any work in this area would be
low on the priority list.
Now that's the negative side out the way.
Things will get better, our bbc 2.0 project will bring the cms's closer
together or at least form a layer in between so it won't matter. Also the use
of RSS is growing and with stuff like igoogle, particls, etc. We're seeing lots
more use of RSS without it being asked for by name. RSS is becoming part of the
fabric of the web.
And I just want to add RSS on a mobile phone with unlimited (1gig limit) is
awesome.
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On 20/08/07, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I understand you Brian, you want a rss feed of every page
published on the bbc domain?
Not every page!
However, just picking one page at random, http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/ -
this has no feed but seems to comprise of a number of stories. My assumption
is that you are using a CMS to do this - it wouldn't reduce the number of
visitors to the site if there was an RSS feed, surely?
As a big Drum and Bass fan then I would like a feed from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/drumbass/ - if it were me doing this I would have a
standard "rss.xml" file in each folder...
That would be useful if you wanted a log of when a page has
changed and when for example (meta about the page I guess) But for holding data
I think the idea of using xhtml with lots of Microformats or rdf/a makes better
sense.
Yeah, but if you use iGoogle or similar to monitor sites, they are
invisible without the RSS feeds!
For example, I had no idea when the Guardian changed their "home page"
design, because I never look at it - I use the RSS feeds from the sections I
want (Media, Technology) so I can avoid the stuff I don't want (Sport etc).
Also, RSS is very easy for search engines to index, and you don't get
onto the "add stuff" buttons of iGoogle without an RSS feed. Type in "drum and
bass" for example and there's no 1Xtra (sorry, BBC Radio 1Xtra).
Others may disagree, but I'm interested in why
The main reason I use iGoogle is that I have six or seven PCs that I
use over the days - a few servers, PCs in different offices, laptops etc -
iGoogle allows me to keep my stuff in one place and access it as I require.
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How about a generic RSS feed for every BBC page that is
published?
On 20/08/07, Carlos Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
There is always the Heroes Radio Show podcast
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/bbc7/heroes/rss.xml
Not much info about each episode in the feed
though.
-C.
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I'm not sure but I'll pass it on.
What kind of information were you
hoping for?
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Subject: [backstage] RSS feeds query
A quick query. Will the BBC be
producing any feeds for the Heroes website at all or BBC Three? Since the
demise of the cult site, I'm trying to get the various bits of information
together in RSS form as a bit of an experiment.
Thanks,
Iain
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