Hi all,
I would like some advice and recommendations to get up to speed on RSS
and including it in
various web sites, flash readers, and Content Management Systems. Please
feel free to
write me off the list if appropriate. I recently got into TikiWiki because
I thought that would help me accomplish some goals. One of them
specifically is to help, Street Newspapers,.
which typically have only been available in print versions, to become
syndicated. Street Newspapers are described
and cataloged at http://nasna.org (North American Street Newspaper
Association) and other locations outside
this area, with goals of educating others and creating income. For this
task I had chosen TikiWiki for a
couple reasons, one is that it seemed like it would make life easier.
Unfortunately, I was wrong.in terms of
the way it is implemented. One can hardly say that the CMS actually creates
RSS feeds from the perspective
of what one might expect a "real" RSS feed to have. Let me give a quick
example, which won't necessarily
be about Street Newspapers. Ok, If I create a blog on the system and have
say 5 entries, and it is
called Bruces's Web Log. What will the feed show? Bruce's Web Log...Bruce
s Web Log... Bruce's
Web Log... etc. for all five. It might have a timestamp but that is hardly
a newsfeed. The same would occur
with articles, Newsletters etc.
Finding the right newsgroup or mailing list for where I am in this
process is difficult as I'm not sure
if many of them offer novice type questions. I am realizing a need to get
up to speed on XML and RSS
in particular. As a web hosting provider, I have the ability to offer web
sites, subdomains and such to
these groups and do hope to make it intuitive. So, the questions:
1) Do I find a Content Management System (CMS) better at creating
newsfeeds?
2) Do I just create a web site and learn how to syndicate the content?
3) Related to #3, will it be recommended to use a PHP web log,
News/Newsletter script, e-zine script,
and forum script to make this easier? If so any recommendations? Oh the
servers I would volunteer
for this support php/perl/mysql etc. I've had more experience with
php/mysql combination then perl and mysql
but that doesn't mean I could use a perl based application
4) Why is is so much easier to find tools that read newsfeeds that already
exist then to find apps/tools/scripts that
will indicate that they output RSS? and when the few times that happens
that an RSS feed is generated from content
it is really not a RSS feed of any use, similar to the Tikiwiki system.
5) I use Fantastico on the servers so if anyone knows about that perhaps a
CMS could be recommended, though it doesn't
have to be on Fantastico to meet the goals.
6) Where might I find assistance, as in persons to work with such a project
(which is at least vaste enough in scope to be
coving North American Street Newspapers - with a willingness to barter for
help on my part?
Thanks in advance,
Feel free to e-mail me off-list or call 919-430-0315
Bruce
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Bruce M Whealton, MSW
Triangle Web Hosting and Web Design
http://TriangleWebHosting.biz
http://TriangleWebHosting.net
bruce@TriangleWebHosting.biz
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-------Original Message-------
From: syndication@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, September 03, 2004 5:51:00 PM
To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [syndication] Re: Independent Online Newspaper RSS Feeds
Thanks :-)
Glad to get new feeds for my web-based aggregator.
Most of the available ones are UK or US, so anything from a different
country is particularly welcome.
Best regards
Pavel
http://feedz.info/
> Just to let you know that RSS Feeds from South African newspaper is
> available:
> http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=2969
>
> thanks
> Shane
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