Comments on: Syndicate the Wagons http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2003/10/23/syndicate-the-wagons/ The personal web site of Brendon J. Wilson, a software developer, technologist, and entrepreneur living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:11:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Boris Mann http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2003/10/23/syndicate-the-wagons/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Boris Mann Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/?p=122#comment-157 And offer RSS feeds back to the community. Or get somebody like NewsIsFree (<a href="http://www.newsisfree.com">http://www.newsisfree.com</a>) or myRSS (<a href="http://www.myrss.com">http://www.myrss.com</a>) to do the "scraping" for them. Then tag (with categories/taxonomy) and aggregate the fields and spit them back out so that other businesses can offer the feeds on their websites. Drupal lets you do this... And yes, I would be more than willing to discuss approaching T-Net with you. And offer RSS feeds back to the community. Or get somebody like NewsIsFree (http://www.newsisfree.com) or myRSS (http://www.myrss.com) to do the “scraping” for them. Then tag (with categories/taxonomy) and aggregate the fields and spit them back out so that other businesses can offer the feeds on their websites.

Drupal lets you do this…

And yes, I would be more than willing to discuss approaching T-Net with you.

]]> By: Brendon J. Wilson http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2003/10/23/syndicate-the-wagons/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Brendon J. Wilson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/?p=122#comment-158 Someone commented that I should *bleep* or get off the pot. Hmph. Well: <ol> <li>I <em>am</em> still at school, plus looking for work. So actually implementing solutions for other people isn't high on my list of priorities.</li> <li>I don't need to produce any XML schemas, given that I provided links to a number of current XML schemas, including RSS, XML-Resume, and RDF Calendar, as well as other standards, such as the iCalendar standard.</li> <li>About five seconds after finishing this entry, I visited T-Net and pitched the general idea to one of their tech people. She suggested I propose it to the T-Net manager.</li> <li>I'm in the middle of a document to pitch this stuff to T-Net as well as to various contacts around the industry to gauge the level of interest.</li> <li>I've already started investigating <a href="http://www.myrss.com">myRSS</a> to judge its suitability for scraping content from various sites. This is a stop-gap, of course, until such time that various Vancouver organizations start syndicating their content.</li> </ol> So it would appear I am indeed *bleeping*. I just don't want to waste my time *bleeping* on something that is neither desirable nor feasible. Someone commented that I should *bleep* or get off the pot. Hmph. Well:

  1. I am still at school, plus looking for work. So actually implementing solutions for other people isn’t high on my list of priorities.
  2. I don’t need to produce any XML schemas, given that I provided links to a number of current XML schemas, including RSS, XML-Resume, and RDF Calendar, as well as other standards, such as the iCalendar standard.
  3. About five seconds after finishing this entry, I visited T-Net and pitched the general idea to one of their tech people. She suggested I propose it to the T-Net manager.
  4. I’m in the middle of a document to pitch this stuff to T-Net as well as to various contacts around the industry to gauge the level of interest.
  5. I’ve already started investigating myRSS to judge its suitability for scraping content from various sites. This is a stop-gap, of course, until such time that various Vancouver organizations start syndicating their content.

So it would appear I am indeed *bleeping*. I just don’t want to waste my time *bleeping* on something that is neither desirable nor feasible.

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