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It’s already well known that the Remote Sensing Systems satellite-derived temperature data has released the January figures: the finding is that it’s colder this January than it has been for some time. I wanted to look more carefully at this data, mostly to show how to avoid some common pitfalls when analyzing time series data, but also to show you that temperatures are not linearly increasing. (Readers Steve Hempell and Joe Daleo helped me get the data.) First, the global average. The RSS satellite actually divides up the earth in swaths, or transects, which are bands across the earth whose...

Before we begin, let me emphasize that I'm logged in and that my beeber already is set to stune lol. I understand that a single podcast can consist of a single episode, or of multiple episodes. In the former case, I would upload the single episode plus one RSS file that points to the episode, correct? Then I would tell the aggregator the location of the RSS file. When I'm finished, the aggregator points to the RSS file and the RSS file points to the single podcast file (?) What about the latter case, where a single podcast consists of...

I'd like some advice and recommendations from the Freeper community. I have a technical/educational website and I'm thinking about adding a few RSS feeds for news headlines. (For those who don't know, RSS is "Real Simple Syndication" and what you see on a site is a box with scrolling headlines. You can click on a headline to open up a window with the original article.) Of course the news software that I have has prebuilt links to NYT, CNN, etc. Yuck. Since my site is physics related I'll have a feed or two from orgs like the American Ass'n of...

India sets sights on cruise missile market By Siddharth Srivastava NEW DELHI - Long considered among the top importing nations for defense hardware, India is now looking to access the fast-growing international market for cruise missiles, considered a lethally efficient weapon. US forces used almost 1,000 such missiles when they first entered Iraq in 2003, and the total worldwide market is expected to be more than US$10 billion in the next decade. An inventory of more than 80,000 such missiles is estimated already to exist around the world. Indian Defense Minister A K Anthony has said New Delhi is holding...

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

I am looking for Up To The Minute news stories to gather. Topix.net use to have Up To The Muinute nes stories. You could refresh your browser and they'd indicated when they were posted 1 minute -10 minutes ago. I only know of NewsLookup.com that has wire feeds from all over the world and they can update ever two minutes, but I'm more interested in ALL news that's updated or posted than just major headlines. Does RSS allow you to do this kind of things? Where do yous Guys get you news stories

On January 12, 2006, Pastor M. Aharon survived a brutal attack at the hands of Hindu radicals in the town of Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh, located about 300 miles east of Bombay in central India. While he was distributing Christian literature, the pastor of Indian Pentecostal Church, who is in his 16th year of ministry, was mercilessly assaulted by a group of militant Hindus until his face was covered with blood from heavy blows to his mouth and nose. During this violent incident, a mob of over 100 radicals cheered and yelled for Pastor Aharon’s blood to be spilled, inciting the...

I received a graphic from CentCom to put on my blog, Marathon Pundit. An army specialist sent it to me for my blog. I don't know how to use it as a button to put in on my blog. Also, a blog serving as a clearinghouse of sorts for Illinois bloggers is looking for an RSS feed to put on their blog? Any FReepers know how to do this? I'm using Blogger.com

iFeedPod - a free OS X RSS aggregator for the iPod Posted Nov 26, 2005, 8:30 PM ET by David Chartier iFeedPod logoiFeedPod from Carnglas Software is a free, handy and straight-forward utility for downloading RSS feeds to your iPod. It supports importing OPML files (with updated support for Bloglines OPMLs) and grouping various feeds into one, making it easier to get through a lot of content from multiple feeds. Setup is pretty short and sweet, with a simple window for entering a feed's URL and name, along with the option of grouping it. To run iFeedPod you'll need either...

I just found a Yahoo Widget called RSS Viewer that will let you view all the Free Republic Breaking News headlines by tapping into Free Republic's Breaking News RSS! To use the RSS Viewer you'll need Konfabulator (Yahoo Widgets). Yahoo recently bought Konfabulator and now the program you used to have to pay for is free. You can get the free Yahoo Widgets here: http://widgets.yahoo.com You can get the RSS Viewer here: http://www.widgetgallery.com/view.php?widget=35750 Once you load the RSS Viewer you click the little "i" button and change the RSS Feed to Free Republic's RSS: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse.rss and instantly all the Breaking...

If you know all about RSS and Atom, this will be a waste of your time, but if you never heard of these site feed protocols, this article may be of interest, because it will make your web surfing much faster, more efficient – and almost professional. Many web sites and web logs automatically generate a file whenever they are updated. That is, whenever a new report, headline or article is posted, a special file is exported. In doing so, these sites follow either an RSS or an Atom protocol – both of which usually can be read by certain...

I looking for a good RSS XML reader. I've downloaded a couple of freebee's but they weren't much good. What is the Freeper consensus, like there that sort of thing here.

A well-known Microsoft Corp. Web logger Tuesday downplayed the proposed use of a new name for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in the next version of Internet Explorer (IE) following several days of intense discussion about the notion of rebranding RSS in the Web log community. In an interview Wednesday, Robert Scoble, a Microsoft technical evangelist and writer of a popular Web log, or blog, about the software giant, said the company had not made a final decision as to whether it would rename RSS “Web feeds” in the final version of IE 7 the way it has in the beta...

A Microsoft Network (MSN) executive is defending Microsoft’s rebranding of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) into “Web feeds” after a flurry of Microsoft bloggers accused the software giant of trying to recast the Web-site syndication technology in its own image. In a recent post on his Web log “Torres Talking,” Mike Torres, MSN Spaces lead program manager, made a clear distinction between the branding of the RSS technology and the underlying technology itself. He also said that Microsoft is adding its own functionality to RSS in the version the company is implementing in Internet Explorer (IE) 7. Because of this, its...

Google Inc. plans to enhance its Google News article search service on Tuesday by adding content syndication, according to executives from the Mountain View, California, company. The new feature will allow Google News users to set up RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or Atom content syndication feeds for specific Google News sections, such as entertainment, business or world news, and for specific terms users search for on Google News, such as “George Bush,” “diabetes” or “space shuttle.” Users will also be able to set up RSS or Atom feeds for customized sections they create on Google News. “This is another way...

I'm looking around for some podcasts worth listening to, and I figured my fellow freepers would have some insight. I'm especially intersted in political, technological and theological topics. Maybe this thread could serve as a central compendium of "Free Republic Approved" podcasts?

Kochi (AsiaNews) – A gaggle of Hindu fundamentalists assaulted Christians who were watching a screening of The Passion of the Christ inside the Kanai Church, the oldest church in the state of Kerala (south-western India). One Christian was seriously wounded and scores of others were beaten and injured, including women and children. The incident occurred on Easter Eve in Chalakud Taluna when 25 militants from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)—the paramilitary wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—disrupted the viewing of Mel Gibson’s movie and started attacking the spectators, one of whom George Kutty, was seriously hurt. Kanai Church members...

In the world of news sources, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find those that remain objective. Of course their are sources such as The Christian Science Monitor and ITN, but finding a good selection really is hard. So, what I am proposing in this post is for the members of FReeRepublic to help me out in finding some good news feeds for my site. This of course will make my site more appealing to users with similar interests to those of FR, but hey, where else could I get an educated, logical opinion on such a matter; DU? HAHAHAHAHA!...

For those of you who are Catholics - especially those who are traditionally oriented - Angelqueen.org now has a Catholic News ticker for your web site and RSS feeds available HERE.The News feed is updated several times daily. You can also get feeds for the latest forum posts or daily Martyrology if you like.Other areas you may be interested in is the Traditional Latin Mass, illustrated and explained, the 7-step Rosary or the weekly 1962 Sunday Missal Mass readings/propers.God bless.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - After getting a taste of the radio business in college, software designer Craig Patchett never lost his interest in broadcasting. But without a job in radio, it seemed likely to remain one of those unfulfilled passions — until something called "podcasting" came along. Now, Patchett's creating shows and sending them out to the masses every day — not over the airwaves to radios but over the Internet, from his personal computer in Carlsbad, Calif. His listeners download his shows to their iPods and other digital music players. Patchett, 43, is among a growing number of people...