Tag Archive for rss

Euston, we’re going local

The fantastic coders over at Fix My Transport have been busily beavering away to deliver a new feature which is targeted at people who run Hyperlocal blogs. Thanks to their work it is now possible to subscribe to an RSS feed for a particular route, such as the bus service that comes through your patch [...]

All the loveRSS

Standing up for RSS is a bit like getting excited about cat’s eyes in the road: they’re not something to be very passionate about, but you’d miss them if they weren’t there. I often see tweets and blog posts about RSS dying and it’s become one of those perennial debates in the tech world. Twitter and Facebook [...]

Keep track of your bookmarks and your friends’ bookmarks, and their friends’ bookmarks (etc)

Jargon warning: there’s no need to be a specialist for what follows, but it does assume knowledge of the inner workings of the web. If it’s incomprehensible, ask a friendly geek to guide you I’ve written a couple of quick tips about Google Reader before, suggesting that it is a powerful tool to follow multiple RSS [...]

Use Google Reader Play to knock up a very quick slideshow

I’m a huge fan of Google Reader (Google account needed for access) because it helps me to graze hundreds of web feeds without having to visit them all. I can also access it via my mobile phone which means I can be sucking in new ideas if I’m standing in a queue. And, from that [...]

Displaying the local weather forecast on your WordPress.com website

I’ve just been asked by Lee, who has started a new community website for the Great Barr, Kingstanding and Oscott areas of Birmingham The B44 Blog, ‘do you know how to set up a weather widget on the side of wordpress.com?’ The answer is yes, this is quite an easy thing to do using the [...]

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