Posted on 10/17/2006 3:17:15 AM PDT by quesney
Is there any chance that FreeRepublic will offer RSS feeds in the future? It would make it a lot easier to keep up with the flow of the many interesting posts on this Forum.
--quesney
We've had quite a while! :)
I meant to say, we've had RSS feeds for quite a while.
A year or so maybe.
(Need more coffee!)
Here's the feed for the Breaking News forum:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/t-breaking/browse.rss
I had to hunt for it; I agree that it would be great if these were easier to find.
What are RSS feeds?
What RSS reader program are you all using? I'm using Pluck but not really happy with it.
Please explain...
Just add .rss to the end of any index's address.
Sharpreader.
Very nice, but with about 75 incoming feeds it begins to take up a lot of memory.
I use Firefox's extension "Sage." Perfect--if you want a small reader.
How is this useful? Just think (back in the old days, when papers were good) how newspapers use syndication: they aggregate various syndicated columnists or comics together in one place, for the enjoyment and convienence of the reader.
The same holds true of RSS feeds. You can use it simply to look at the latest headlines from FR, or you can aggregate a number of feeds - like combine an FR feed with a good technology news feed, and add in a good business news feed - to create a stream of newsbriefs that meet your information needs.
Another cool thing: if you own a Mac, OS X 10.4 has a screensaver that displays an RSS stream in a really cool way - the streams of articles are lined up, and swirl around, and then one article is momentarily focused on, before the stream swirls around again. Here are pictures of it displaying the FR newsfeed:
It's amazing eye-candy, so it certainly catches the eye of passer-bys -and thus does a good job showing how FR keeps you informed!
Yep...Pluck really bogs down my memory...to the point after using it I normally have to reboot....
Now you've done it. Microsoft will push the release data of Vista back another 18 months, while they copy that little feature...
A brand of mineral-enriched cattle feed I think.
The upper screen shot is backwards.
Do you need a mirror to use the program? g
Very cool thanks. I had no idea about what the heck an RSS feed was. Plus my guy has Mac OS X 10.4. How fun.
How do you add the Free Republic feed to the list of RSS feed options in the screen saver control panel?
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