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by drewskyjones
Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:54 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD RSS Feed
Replies: 10
Views: 3853

RSS Feeds found

I have found some RSs feeds for APOD. I don't know how good they are yet. I saw there is one on Microsoft's new Live.com site (could not determine the feed url). I just subscribed to a feed some random guy has out there: http://www.acme.com/jef/apod/rss.xml I searched with newsgator and found about ...
by drewskyjones
Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:51 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD RSS Feed
Replies: 10
Views: 3853

RSS Feed for APOD...A test

It wasn't that long ago, that I was wondering what RSS was all about. After I "got it", I was amazed by how useful it is. Imagine if all of the news and other content sites that you were interested in would send you headlines for all their content as it was published. That would be a huge ...
by drewskyjones
Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:34 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD RSS Feed
Replies: 10
Views: 3853

RSS Feed for APOD...A test

Makc,

Thanks for letting me know about the spam posts. I have deleted them. Also, I turned on "Word Verification" on the blog comments. Hopefully that will eliminate most of the problem. If not, I will have to turn off comments. BTW, I posted today's APOD to the blog.
by drewskyjones
Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:31 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD RSS Feed
Replies: 10
Views: 3853

RSS Feed for APOD...A test

Ok, I thought I would do a quick test, so I set up a blog that generates an RSS feed. I posted manually using the blogger web tools. This took about 2 minutes. So, if anyone is listening, go check it out: http://nasa-apod.blogspot.com/ Obviously this is not something I want to do manually, the point...
by drewskyjones
Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:58 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD RSS Feed
Replies: 10
Views: 3853

RSS Feed for APOD

I sent an email to someone at APOD a while ago inquiring if they might consider doing an RSS feed, but got no response(not sure if I even sent it to the right person). They really should do an RSS feed. It would be extremely popular and it would probably get a lot more people interested in space. On...