Martian Wave Test Feed
Over lunch, I was waiting for someone at Rye Playland to call be back about an issue in their accounting software. Never one to waste the gift of free time, I wrote an RSS generator that can be used for zines. I created a feed for three stories at The Martian Wave and I used feedburner to create one of their animated widgets. Here is what I got:
All that I have to do is clean up the code and publish the link. There is quite a bit that can go wrong, though. I have a huge problem with non-roman characters and there’s the old garbage-in garbage-out thing. If people start trying to include html tags or large amounts of data it will break. It is also up to the webmaster of a zine to create a new rss.xml file with the same name each time the zine changes. Feedburner expects the new file to be in the same place with the same name.
I’ve been following this RSS stuff for a while now and the recent posts here. Very interesting. I like the widget but it mus be difficult to set u between two locations everytime the zine changes.
Lots to digest here.
That was pretty cool!!! Thanks.