Pasadena Now has activated its RSS feed! The feed contains article titles only, but this is groundbreaking. It looks like Pasadena Now is the first comprehensive Pasadena news source to offer an RSS feed of any of its content.
(Wondering what RSS is? More info here.)
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Update 8/15/07: Jeremiah Small points out that the Pasadena Star-News publishes an RSS feed, too. It’s a feed of the titles and descriptions of the most popular articles.
You should have a post showing people how to use Google Reader! It’s the hands-down best/easiest way to track RSS feeds, if you have a Google account.
I guess you’re not counting PSN’s http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/xsl/memv/xml/206_most_viewed_rss.xml
(I don’t. I subscribed for like 2 days and found it irrelevant. Give us category based feeds and I’ll be interested.)
I hadn’t seen that before — thanks very much for linking to it.
Ok, I tried to be open minded (for about 15 minutes), but the Pasadena Now syndicating titles only is…well…lame.
::puts on propeller beanie::
Even the oldest syndication protocols have a description node. I wonder how they even managed to publish it without.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss
The Pasadena Now feed header claims but each item node only contains a title and link node. What’s up with that?
(comment filter stripped the tag out of my last sentence. Should say: …header claims rss version=”2.0″…)
Yeah, full content would be way handier. Even if there were ads at the bottom of the articles, like some people do with their feeds. For me, though, titles are better than nothing. I don’t usually visit the local news sites unless someone links to an article in a blog post — I get most of my news through my RSS reader. I’m not a big fan of visiting individual sites over and over checking to see what/if they’ve updated.