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Poll Question: Would you subscribe to a specific artists/albums RSS reviews feed ?
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    Posted: April 08 2006 at 10:54
I want to know if it worth the developpement efforts

What is RSS @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29


Or if a newsletter is still the way to go to syndicate our new reviews.

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I started a poll about RSS half a year ago ... still waiting for any meaningful responses. So good luck with this poll!

BTW: I think that RSS is vastly superior to any E-Mail newsletter. You just need to promote it better. But I don't think that it would make sense on an artist/album level. I think it would be best if we could simply select genres (checkboxes).
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Here's how you could implement it:

/rss.asp?genres=10,23,44

Simply parse the genres parameter and use the genre IDs in an SQL query. Then all we need is a form where you can select genres and as a result the system builds the url, which you can then bookmark.
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Points: 12288 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2006 at 11:56

I think I need to know it better...

However, everything able to make our life easier in informatics can count with me.

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Points: 20575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2006 at 12:15

Here's a quick RSS tutorial:

  1. Download Mozilla Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
  2. In Thunderbird, create a new account, select "RSS" as account type and enter this url: http://www.progarchives.com/RSS/progarchives.xml
  3. Voila!

Of course you can use RSS in numerous ways, this is only a suggestion to get you started! Of course it's especially useful if you can use Thunderbird for E-Mail too ... so you get it all in one application.

 
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Points: 12288 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2006 at 12:37

Thanks, Mike

I was just reading the wikipedia article and get very interested!!!

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Thanks for the comments Mike 
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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2006 at 19:56
I think Mike's idea of a genre-level is a good one.

Thunderbird looks decent at handling RSS, as well (certainly a lot better than Firefox ). Opera's also worth a try since it's intergrated into the browser itself (and email, and soon Bittorrent. Lovely )
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^ Well, Thunderbird manages the RSS feeds like email accounts, and I really like it. Especially if

  • You'd like to conveniently monitor many websites using RSS
  • You also have some email accounts that you'd like to use via POP3 or IMAP

then IMO Thunderbird is THE application for you.
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Points: 10261 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 09 2006 at 04:39
Looks good to me. If it is not too difficult to implement and easy to handle for the users, go for it!


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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 09 2006 at 09:44
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ Well, Thunderbird manages the RSS feeds like email accounts, and I really like it. Especially if



  • You'd like to conveniently monitor many websites using RSS

  • You also have some email accounts that you'd like to use via POP3 or IMAP

then IMO Thunderbird is THE application for you.


Certainly; I have no problems with Thunderbird - I used it occasionally to test encryption in emails - I was just pointing out how great Opera is . I might have a look at Thunderbird for RSS now since I'm not so happy with Liferea which is what I was running on Linux.

edit: whoops, seems I actually have Evolution installed, not Thunderbird...

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