[videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread duncan speakman
is this possible? to create a feed that doesn't contain any reference to it's originating site? regards d YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread Joshua Kinberg
yes. On 8/6/05, duncan speakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this possible? to create a feed that doesn't contain any reference to it's originating site? regards d Yahoo! Groups Links YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread Andreas Haugstrup
On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:37:00 +0200, duncan speakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this possible? to create a feed that doesn't contain any reference to it's originating site? Don't listen to Josh. :o) The channel level link element (The URL to the HTML website corresponding to the

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
of course, yes. you can manually write your XML referencing media hosted all over the internet. their are many software apps and scripts that create RSS for you as well. dont need a blog. another example is over on videobloggers.org. right now, the only feature available for beta testers is

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread duncan speakman
On 8/6/05, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. lol... ok. anychance you could elaborate? how does one go about doing this? SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
channel - true... i maybe misread... and thought he meant associating to his own site.. not any site. On 8/6/05, Andreas Haugstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:37:00 +0200, duncan speakman[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this possible? to create a feed that doesn't contain any

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread duncan speakman
The channel level link element (The URL to the HTML website corresponding to the channel.) is *required* in RSS 2.0. is there a way to spoof this.. i.e. to put in a different url to the one that is actually generating the feed... In most cases it is fucking stupid *not* to provide

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread Andreas Haugstrup
On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:52:52 +0200, duncan speakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The channel level link element (The URL to the HTML website corresponding to the channel.) is *required* in RSS 2.0. is there a way to spoof this.. i.e. to put in a different url to the one that is actually

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread andrew michael baron
Sure, you can edit any data in your XML sheet. You could pull the parameter from anywhere (e.g. generate a random url, pick from a list, hard-code a constant) On Aug 6, 2005, at 12:52 PM, duncan speakman wrote: The channel level link element (The URL to the HTML website corresponding to

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread duncan speakman
You can lie putting in http://www.example.com/ or soemthing else. it's not about being a lie, it's about why we assume videos need some kind of 'site' or homepage But by doing so you devaluate RSS as a whole. If more people did that the channel level link would become useless for

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread Joshua Kinberg
:-) There are numerous ways to autogenerate an RSS feed. You don't need a blog to do this, although it certainly makes RSS creation easier. One early example of RSS sans blog from the Podcasting world is Andrew Grumet's dir2rss script: http://grumet.net/weblog/archives/2004/09/12/001087.html

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread Steve Garfield
http://audioblog.com does this for audio or video On Aug 6, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: :-) There are numerous ways to autogenerate an RSS feed. You don't need a blog to do this, although it certainly makes RSS creation easier. --Steve -- Home Page -

Re: [videoblogging] creating rss without an associated site

2005-08-06 Thread Joshua Kinberg
These must follow the rules set down in the technical specifications or the system breaks down. So when the spec says 'you must include a link element which points to the HTML page for your channel', The HTML page for your channel does not need to be your blog. For instance, the NYTimes