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Rss Sync scratches an itch that I’ve had for some time.

Consisting of both a desktop sync conduit that plugs into ActiveSync and a pocket pc viewer, Rss Sync delivers the goods to read blog content effectively on the Pocket PC.

It supports OPML import and provides a headline view of each feed.

I’ve emailed the author to see if there is any interest in integrating this with RssBandit.

Were it that support for SIAM or a direct link to RssBandit or SharpReader were present, it could be a daily driver.

Having said that, I’m impressed by the painless installation and error-free operation.

I am pretty excited about the RSS support that Amazon added.

The content matters little to me, but the principle and technique are key.

Using a combination of RESTian techniques with RSS output, Amazon has added a new face to their formidable web presence.

Sharpreader doesn’t like the links. I now get a pop-up proclaiming that the fully qualified path should be less than 260 characters.

I am reminded of RMS’s instistence on no arbitrary limits.

I am sure Luke will converge on a solution soon.

And indeed it is 0.9.4 is out

I was goofing around the other night in Visual Studio.net 2003. I was reading about IBlogExtension and had recently come across ReadItToMe.

Long story short, I came up with BlogTalk. An IBlogExtension that reads a blog entry to you or optionally saves it to a wav file.

Here’s a sample of my recent Mac Daddy of Java Brewery post.

I particularly like the inflection and pauses the speech agent interjects. Makes me wonder if I’ll start writing for maximum spoken clarity.

I am using xslt to output SSML and feeding it into SAPI.

Obvious improvements await, but for 20 lines of C# and an easy xslt, it is pretty cool.

Watch this space for a freebie release soon.

Python Desktop Server Weblog

a browser based radio replacement - with posting, reading, etc. In Python

Installing now… Update soon

From Jon Schull comes news of news presented differently.

InfoBreakfast is an interesting format for presenting top 10 kind of news. I haven’t yet found anything about the mechanisms in play here. Given the single-wordedness of the topics, I would suspect text extraction.

Bringing these types of capabilities to the local level will be a key element of the march forward in information access. What’s hot within the info-sphere that I frequent?

Yeah Baby…..
Ben Hammersley.com: CVS2RSS

Notifications that were once delivered via email are now more readily viewed via an RSS feed.

Mail lists to RSS are next I suppose.
The missing link, is the ability to respond directly from an RSS Reader (I suppose it is no longer a reader then)

Ziv Capsi over at Y.B. Normal is still working on Aggie. He writes about some design and implementation changes in the current RC of Aggie.
Elsewhere on his blog he ponders the rise of Posted in RSS | Comments Off