Axiomatic Breakfast

I’m a big fan of RSS feeds. (With all the RSS-related entries posted here, are you suprised?) Anyway, here’s a site that lets you “create RSS feeds from Amazon data”:http://www.onfocus.com/bookwatch/AmazonRSS.asp Great…what use is this? Well, you could have an RSS feed of your favorite DVD genera that is embeded in your blog.

Update:

What is RSS? Well, William Grosso over at “O’Reilly”:http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3591 describes it thusly…

bq. RSS is like a card-catalog for the web. It’s an XML feed that tells you a little about a web page, including when it last changed. And aggregators like “NewsMonster”:http://www.newsmonster.org/ take full advantage of this, to let you monitor the web as it’s changing.

Persinally, I use “News Crawler”:http://www.newzcrawler.com/ to keep myself updated. I can keep an eye on your blog Molly by checking out “your RSS Feed”:http://www.livejournal.com/users/racing_turtle/rss!

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