Posts filed under 'RSS Syndication'
Ping-O-Matic’s server update seems to have greatly improved its bulk ping speed. This service is by far the best bulk ping service judging by the number of robots that crawl my posts after I notify ping-O-matic’s RPC client.
Over the last few months, I’ve been VERY frustrated by the long wait times and errors generated because WordPress waits for the ping-O-matic server to do its work. Let’s hope those wait times are gone for good!
This is an extremely useful service as long as it can handle the load!
March 7th, 2006
I’ve tested a number of ping services and none of them have stopped my blog software from bogging down when I submit a new post. For the uninitiated, a ping service notifies blog directories and search engines that new content has been posted on a blog. More than one helpful blogger has posted a list of ping services.
I am looking for recommendations from other bloggers. What bulk ping service do you use? Why?
I am currently testing Pingoat after using a number of others. I have started to ping several services, like Technorati directly because they were not being notified by the ping service I last used, which shall remain nameless!
If this post was greek to you, congratulations on haning in there and reading it anyway! More information is available on the Wordpress Web site.
February 25th, 2006
This excellent little Sitepoint tutorial can get anyone with a basic knowledge of PHP started consuming XML/RSS feeds in short order! Includes a working example and PHP code for download.
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February 23rd, 2006
While I still hold to everything I said in my Social Bookmarking “Research” post, I am developing more respect for Reddit’s radical democratic culture every day. I credit this post with helping me reorient my thinking.
My initial frustration came from receiving negative feedback on bookmarked stories (sometimes a great deal) with no context provided by comments. Now that I understand why the feedback comes without context, I can put it in its proper perspective.
Reddit’s feedback mechanism is so heavily used, at least from what I can tell, because of its ability to predict stories that will interest a reader based on their likes and dislikes. After I voted several stories up and down (I’d rather just ignore the ones I don’t like), I started receiving recommended stories that interested me without having to filter through the entire list of submitted stories myself.
Though I’m not sure that Reddit will be an everyday tool, it is an example of the rapidly emerging software built around the come to me Web structure that is made possible by RSS feeds.
February 18th, 2006
This is a continuation of my discussion regarding the CARP solution to RSS aggregation. I’ve concluded that the CARP solution is too limited for handling the character encoding I throw at it. The particular character-encoding problem I encountered was the substitution of a question mark for every apostrophe in the WordPress item title tag and I am not sure whether to blame the WordPress RSS feed or CARP. The reason for this inadequacy (as I see it) is that it does not handle ATOM feeds with their more advanced character encoding abilities. I have experimented with Magpie RSS and found it handles the ATOM feeds gracefully and that character encoding has not been an issue on my ATOM feeds.
The weakness of Magpie is its lack of advanced functions to format the cached feeds. This lack of pre-designed functionality is a strength because Magpie is designed with the PHP programmer in mind, allowing a great deal of control with a little knowledge of PHP. It also seems to load more quickly when the feed has not been cached, but this is based on an observation rather than benchmarks. Overall, I find that for my purposes Magpie is by far the best solution. For those with little or no programming experience, CARP offers a quick way to incorporate your WordPress posts throughout the rest of your web site, but Magpie will help you do it with fewer character encoding issues.
By the way, if you are wondering how to use the Magpie technology built into the latest version of Wordpress, check out Secrets of WP Theming: Part 3 by Chris Davis.
March 7th, 2005
This conversation continues with regard to Magpie.
I recently experimented with the CARP (Caching RSS Parser) tool from Gecko Tribe. The combination of flexible news feed aggregation plus caching for improved performance is very useful. Between such tools as a WordPress or other weblog and an aggregation tool like CARP, a small web site can produce results similar to those generated via a server side database.
CARP allows the user to search for words or categories so that a blogger can use his or her content throughout the rest of their site with very little fuss. This technique may be useful for small entrepreneurs with a product and a wealth of knowledge that potential customers will value. By tightly integrating this knowledge with the products on the web site, additional value may be created.
Though I am still largely a spectator to the maturing of WordPress 1.5, I see huge potential in using its fledgling CMS tools to build out an entire site that integrates blog content throughout. I am on the edge of my seat looking for an opportunity to do so. The reason I see even more benefit from this development than from a news aggregator, is that it will avoid some of the problems that the RSS aggregation tools have with special characters such as apostrophes and quotation marks. That said, I am still finding my way around the blogosphere and there is much I have to learn. If there is a way around the special character aberrations that CARP generates, I would be delighted to learn about it.
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March 3rd, 2005
Consuming the NOAA RSS weather conditions feed with Bigbold RSS digest.
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