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« on: July 09, 2007, 10:54:39 PM »
It occurred to me the other day that I don't actually know what's going on in the world because I don't watch TV, and I don't check up on news sites anymore like I used to.

That being said, it hit me that I could post popular RSS feeds on the header or somewhere less obtrusive on the forums this way I can kill two birds with one stone. I can check up on the forums and make sure they haven't been flooded because someone left the stupid faucet running, and I can also check up on the latest War in Iraq headlines.

So my questions to you guys are:

Do you think this is a worth while addition to the forums?

AND

Do any of you have any good RSS feeds that they already utilize and have found to be useful and reliable?
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Re: RSS Feeds
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2007, 11:13:21 PM »
I think an RSS feed would be great because in all honesty I cant stand news sites and the only thing i watch on tv is movies and cartoons.
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Re: RSS Feeds
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2007, 02:14:08 PM »
Fine with me as long as it isn't one that thinks Paris, Britney, or Lindseys' every move is news.
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Re: RSS Feeds
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2007, 03:47:19 PM »
You got a point there. I honesty don't think anyone on this cares about them, but if I'm wrong my bad.
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Re: RSS Feeds
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2007, 04:35:57 PM »
Lots of people must care for them, otherwise it wouldn't be news  :roll:

I think i'd like a news feed on the forum, but i don't have any to offer, the ones i use usualy are not in english.
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Re: RSS Feeds
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2007, 01:24:23 AM »
I'll see if I can come up with a good free RSS feed you can use for national/world news. I wonder if Google News has RSS feeds?

Edit:
Top News: http://news.google.com/?output=rss
National/US: http://news.google.com/?ned=us&topic=n&output=rss
World: http://news.google.com/?ned=us&topic=w&output=rss
Science/Tech: http://news.google.com/?ned=us&topic=t&output=rss
« Last Edit: July 11, 2007, 01:26:47 AM by catwritr »
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Re: RSS Feeds
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2007, 07:04:14 AM »
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Re: RSS Feeds
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2007, 11:13:24 AM »
HECTAR.

Reuters and NYT both have great RSS feeds.
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Re: RSS Feeds
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2007, 12:41:19 PM »
Quote from: LuciferSam on July 11, 2007, 11:13:24 AM
Reuters

Only one step up from AP.  :roll:
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Re: RSS Feeds
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2007, 09:39:03 PM »
Thanks for the suggestions, guys.

Now all I need is a script to pull from these feeds. I was expecting this to be really ridiciously easy. Then I forgot about the part of a script being required to pull data from the lists.
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Re: RSS Feeds
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2007, 07:41:45 AM »
Do you want to do something similar to what this site does?
http://www.frostyrider.com/boards/

Try this puppy:http://www.dynawebdesigns.com/dynamic/xml/rsspal.php
It uses javascript so it should be fairly easy to intergrate.

There is also the alternate option of having a bot that creates posts within the forum based on the RSS feeds you setup.
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=624
« Last Edit: July 13, 2007, 07:45:59 AM by TheJudge »
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