Tag Archives: rss

Why I’m throwing down the gauntlet to our councils over RSS feeds

Posted on 14 April 2009 by Adrian Short

You’re free to republish this article under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK licence with credit and a link to Adrian Short / Mash the State Today I connected 66 councils to their citizens by making it easy to subscribe … Continue reading →

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DDAM: Don’t discriminate against machines

Posted on 30 March 2009 by Adrian Short

I’d like to emphasise a point that Emma Mulqueeny has alluded to in her seven principles for digital engagement and which I also made in passing in my previous article on building local news mashups. The web is rife with … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 15 March 2009 by Adrian Short

(Click on the image to download the PDF, 19KB, opens in new window/tab.) Like this? Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/adrianshort I’m a self-confessed and unashamed news junkie and this is how I’m starting to mash up news in my local … Continue reading →

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Technosocial scenarios for Sutton: 3: Starting a chess club

Posted on 10 March 2009 by Adrian Short

Brian loves chess but finds it hard to get a decent match with an opponent at his level. He’d love to start a local chess club but doesn’t want to take the risk of setting something up and having too … Continue reading →

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Technosocial scenarios for Sutton: 2: Street faults

Posted on 10 March 2009 by Adrian Short

Early one Sunday morning, Mark walks to the newsagent for his paper. He almost literally trips over a metal street bollard that has been uprooted from somewhere and dumped a couple of doors down from his house. He scans the … Continue reading →

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Technosocial scenarios for Sutton: 1: The library

Posted on 10 March 2009 by Adrian Short

Susan is a bookworm and regular library user. She filters the RSS feed of new acquisitions at her local library for the names of authors which she likes and reads it on her phone. One morning a new book by one of her … Continue reading →

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The fallacies of summary-only RSS feeds

Posted on 4 April 2008 by Adrian Short

Please don’t tease. Put your full article texts in your RSS feed and make everyone’s life a whole lot easier. Continue reading →

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