Can RSS Feeds carry a Virus Payload?June 12th, 2005 With the rapid proliferation of RSS Feeds and offline aggregators it is presumable that virus writers will try to exploit this avenue to spread the virus. But the question is whether it is feasible?
In short technically a resounding YES.
Case Study: Debugging WordPress Plugins (PHP code)June 19th, 2005 Today I received a rather angry comment from one of my feed readers and I quote: "Come on! There was absolutely no content in the feed. Not even a teaser.
Sharing Experience with Google AdSense For Feed August 29th, 2008 Please share your experience with Google AdSense for Feeds. My experience is pretty dismal so far.
How to Protect your RSS Feeds from Unscrupulous Aggregator'sJune 16th, 2005 Recently there has been a plethora web based aggregator sites. Some of them like diabetologica blatantly displays the full content from the feed.
Two ways to Optimize your RSS feedJanuary 15th, 2009 Baffled with a sea of RSS feeds in your reader or aggregator? You are not alone. This happens to every other subscriber.
Low Noise Way to Read LifeHacker / Gawker Media Sites With SmartFeedNovember 30th, 2005 LifeHacker is a nifty blog in Nick Denton's blogomerate (blog + conglomerate) which provides interesting tips for computer users. So here is my tip for LifeHacker users (and other readers of Gawker Media), LifeHacker style.
Is Technorati Broken?July 4th, 2005 Nowadays very frequently it comes up with:
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Full Content RSS Feeds Compounding the Splog Problem?October 21st, 2005 It appears to me full content RSS feeds are actually helping and compounding the splog (spam blog) problem. Splogs or spam blogs are blogs which are created by using syndicated content of other blogs, automatically aggregated, to increase their PR and AdSense dollars.
RSS Feeds: Full / Summary Feeds? - A Solution for Both CampsOctober 20th, 2005 I wouldn't re-hash popular arguments for / against providing full RSS feeds here. I would just like to point out a simple capability with most RSS readers, I have tested with, that can be leveraged to keep both camps happy.
WordPress: How To Automatically Create Post Excerpt / SummarySeptember 7th, 2007 WordPress provides you the capability to write an excerpt for your post. A post excerpt is displayed as a summary of the post in front page and archive pages.
Creating rss feed for your blogspot blogFebruary 2nd, 2004 One of the reasons I moved out from blogspot, to my own server, was because I couldn't create a RSS Feed of the blog easily. Today I found that blogstreet provides a simple way to do so.
RSS Push Model (ex. PubSub) is not viable in long runMarch 23rd, 2005 PubSub is a tool to push feed items to your desktop. You register at PubSub, identify topics of interest and the news will start coming to your desktop automated and in near real-time.
Back to the drawing board on category feedsMarch 18th, 2005 Few days back I moved to providing categorized feed for JavaBlogs and Artima. However I realized two big problems with this approach which questions the viability as of now.
How To Access Password Protected RSS Feed From Popular Online Feed AggregatorsOctober 7th, 2008 Online feed readers are the latest evolutions in the world of information and news sources. It is developing by leaps and bounds and that day isn't far off when online feed readers will be as essential as your newspaper or careergraphs.
My analysis of the actual problem with JavaBlogs AggregatorMarch 18th, 2005 A technical analysis of the duplicate post problem in JavaBlogs.
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August 29th, 2005 at 11:13 am
Got my first aggregator site taking my feed today.
Thanks to your plugin he got a blaring copyright message on his site.
I really am gonna broadcast your plugin to every now
October 28th, 2006 at 10:35 am
[...] Jack of All Blogs used to be fun when he slagged off everyone, even though I didn’t get half of the inside jokes. Now he’s recycling shopworn articles about whether to publish full or excerpted RSS feeds — see here and here and here and here and even here, where (in August 2005!) it’s called the “age-old debate”. – Feeds, site, excerpts or full — dull. Next! [...]
May 1st, 2007 at 2:08 am
Thanks to your plugin he got a blaring copyright message on his site.