Comments on: Building a local news mashup with Twitter, TwitterFeed, Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, Ruby and RSS

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:54:47 +0000

Really helpful post Adrian as we’re looking to provide more feeds for our local communities and run this on our home pages.

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links for 2009-10-08 « Köszönjük, Emese! — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:08:09 +0000

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By: Adrian Short

Adrian Short — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:41:26 +0000

Ah, thank you. My Subscribe Sidebar widget had stopped working and wasn’t showing the links for some reason.

The RSS subscribe icon in your browser’s location bar is provided by RSS autodiscovery, which many but not all RSS-capable sites use.

The RSS feed URL for all WordPress-powered sites is the base URL + feed/, so this site’s is:

http://adrianshort.co.uk/feed/

Useful to know as a last resort!

By: xxnapoleonsolo

xxnapoleonsolo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:11:22 +0000

And I’ve just remembered that’s how wordpress rss works. I’ll get my coat – carry on everyone, nothing to see here!! Apologies Adrian

By: xxnapoleonsolo

xxnapoleonsolo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:02:41 +0000

I had missed it, in the url box. The subscribe bit of your blog has nowt tho in my defence :-/

By: xxnapoleonsolo

xxnapoleonsolo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:54:11 +0000

I enjoyed your post, but your point is undermined somewhat by having no feed to subscribe too, unless I’ve missed it

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:32:39 +0000

That’s really a cool idea. I loved your mashup. thanks for the screenshot.

By: Mash the Irish State | Talkin' bout a revolution

Mash the Irish State | Talkin' bout a revolution — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:40:01 +0000

[...] Short provides an example of how and why RSS feeds are important in the context of aggregating local news content. The [...]

By: John Taylor

John Taylor — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:04:00 +0000

What an excellent blog, I’ve added your feed to my RSS reader. :-)

By: Mash the State | DavePress

Mash the State | DavePress — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:44:02 +0000

[...] Mash the State is the brainchild of Adrian Short, who has also founded a civic hacking club in Sutton, London; and developed a rather neat local news aggregator. [...]