Re: [syndication] Digest Number 206

[Pino Calzo <pino@calzo.com>]

Hello,

>> Agreed. So how do we get the news outlets, who already syndicate via
>> Moreover, to add the XML button to their sites. Can I suggest a campaign

>Just to be clear, these sites are not actually creating syndicated feeds
>themselves at all, but are rather screen-scraped by Moreover and those
>scrapings turned into RSS.  They don't have to do a thing.  Getting them to
>produce their own home-grown RSS files is something else entirely.

true for most of us. Also on NewsIsFree we have ca. 400 sites where we parse
the HTML and convert that into RSS and other XML formats. The
difference we do is, that we try to include also the link descriptions
where available (instead of a "link-only").

>> to email all your favourite news sources suggesting they make public an
>> RSS feed?
>I tended to do this for quite some time (still do on occasion), but didn't
>get much of a response.  For efficacy, this should be a larger-scale
>effort -- of what form, I'm not sure.

I already thought about approaching the big CMS system with it.
Most sites use on of the big CMS systems around (Vignette, Obtree C3
etc.). I believe the "export to RSS" should be a function within these
tools - most content sites don't even think about customizing their
CMS-Systems so far..

-- 
Best regards,
Pino Calzo
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