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Re: [syndication] About.com have rss 1.0 feeds for every expert

I picked one at random, http://baking.about.com/mbody.htm
At the top of every page is a search. Ensure the dropdown remains at its default "Search in this topic". Search for RSS. Select "deserts/baking" or whatever the topic you choose is. Scroll down to the orange xml logo for "RDF Location" 

http://z.about.com/6/g/baking/b/index.rdf

for delphi, its
http://z.about.com/6/g/delphi/b/index.rdf

for http://womensissues.about.com/mbody.htm
its
http://z.about.com/6/g/womensissues/b/index.rdf
the pattern is apparent, for something.about.com, the corresponding RSS file is 
http://z.about.com/6/g/something/b/index.rdf
They haven't done a good job at putting link tags into the html, so they are not really going to benefit from the traffic that would result if people stuck thesse feeds in aggregators, daypop, etc. I suspect they will eventually get to it. 

Doug


Bill Kearney wrote:


Got URLs for a few of them?  I looked around and didn't come across any.

-Bill Kearney
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug" <doug.ransom@alumni.uvic.ca> 
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Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 7:21 PM
Subject: [syndication] About.com have rss 1.0 feeds for every expert



On any experts' page in about.com, you can search for RSS and get an
RDF Site Summary.  Apparently, about.com is based largely on moveable
type.  I think this is the first big (highly visible to people of
diverse interests, outside sites dedicated to aggregation and
syndication) site with broad  interest to go RSS.
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