July 25, 2002
That’s a darn good question.
Regarding yesterday’s pronouncement that you could now access an RSS feed of this weblog, friend Ian wrote:
“RSS… that’s great… how can I use it? Data is useless without tools to make sense of it…”
Well, of course it’s useless on it’s own, silly. However, I’m currently just supplying the content, not the tools to access it. Based on a suggestion found on Mark Pilgrim’s fine (and extremely useful, I might add) site, I did add a <link> tag to the page header that facilitates auto-discovery of an RSS feed. And I suppose I should have pointed to a couple of articles on using PHP to parse XML-formatted data or even a general introduction to RSS news feeds. By the way, I discovered that data is useless without a lot of other things as well. Makes you wonder how come we have so much of the damn stuff lying around all over the place.
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