Re: RSS Monkey is out

[markkraft@yahoo.com]

I found a new use for RSS Monkey that I have been playing around with 
this weekend.

I got a Handspring recently that has gotten me really into AvantGo, 
largely due to a really sweet LJ AvantGo client which supports 
posting at hotsyncs. (http://www.moobug.co.uk/pocketlj)

For those not familiar, AvantGo allows you to save websites to your 
PDA for later reading. The problem is that the web wasn't made for 
PDAs. You can burn through a lot of your available memory really 
quickly and the formatting leaves a lot to be desired. If you want 
AvantGo to save a weblog and all the stories it links to, well... it 
will try to save every link on the page. With site navigation and a 
huge blogroll, that's enough data to choke a horse.

Unlike HTML, RSS feeds are considerably less cluttered. However, to 
the best of my knowledge there isn't a RSS reader for PalmOS. You 
can, however, send your favorite RSS feeds to RSS Monkey and have it 
generate clean, friendly html pages. 

This works best with RSS feeds that syndicate the body text too. 
Metafilter, for example.

Mark
LiveJournal.com

--- In syndication@y..., { d m p } <dmp@f...> wrote:
> Hi Syndicators --
> 
> That new RSS software I mentioned? It's out, and it's even cooler 
than I'd
> said before.
> 
> RSS Monkey is a really simple, really customizable, personal RSS
> aggregator. It's easy to install (upload, untar, chmod, and change 
one line
> and it's working). You can use it to produce whole pages, or as an 
SSI, or
> (and here's where things get interesting) to produce javascript 
versions of
> any RSS feed. So now you can offer your visitors one easy cut-and-
paste
> line to put your headlines on their site.
> 
> You can check out the monkey here:
> http://brandbenbrown.com/display.html/rssmonkey
> 
> And you can play with my install of it here:
> http://powazek.com/rss/monkey/
> 
> I also posted an example of the javascript syndication here:
> http://www.powazek.com/zoom/log/archive/00000221.shtml
> 
> Personally, I'm stoked!
> 
> -- Derek
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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