While we prefer to promote our primary news feed, you'll find that CMS Report offers a variety of RSS links available on various related CMS topics. Many of these "hidden feeds" can be discovered though the tag links found at the end of most articles. Below is a list of CMSReport.com's five most popular RSS fees.
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Recommended Feeds for CMSReport.com
When it comes to promoting the CMS Report's news feeds, I've always been indecisive on how best to promote our various RSS links. I've always been happy to promote our primary news feed, but I've been hesitant about promoting and supporting some of our more "hidden feeds". However, increasingly I've been receiving emails from our readers asking for alternative feeds that might be more suitable for their needs.
So by popular demand, a list of some of the RSS feeds available at CMSReport.com:
WhiteHouse 2.0
There has been a huge transformation this year at WhiteHouse.gov. Blogs, RSS feeds, and connections to social networking sites are being fully utilized at the President's website. Those of us that have worked in information technology positions for the federal government have experienced first hand just how slow bureaucracies can be in taking advantage of newer technologies. From my perspective, it is almost surreal to see references to Web 2.0 from a website for an office that once didn't allow the President of the United States to send emails or even use a smart phone.
Let's hope the President's views on content management and social publishing trickles down to the rest of the Executive branch.
In the President’s last Weekly Address, he called on government to "recognize that we cannot meet the challenges of today with old habits and stale thinking." He added that "we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative," and pledged to "reach beyond the halls of government" to engage the public. Today the White House is taking steps to expand how the Administration is communicating with the public, including the latest information and guidance about the H1N1 virus. In addition to WhiteHouse.gov, you can now find us in a number of other spots on the web:
The WhiteHouse blog (RSS) will power a lot of the content in these networks, but we’re looking forward to hearing from our fans, friends and followers. Don’t forget these sites as well:
Technology has profoundly impacted how – and where – we all consume information and communicate with one another. WhiteHouse.gov is an important part of the Administration’s effort to use the internet to reach the public quickly and effectively – but it isn’t the only place.
CMS Report featured at Alltop
A month ago, I started observing an increase in traffic from a relatively new aggregation site called Alltop. CMS Report is now being featured in Alltop's content management page which is dedicated to "all the top content management news". Alltop recently expanded the number of topics they cover and I surmise that content management is one of those new topics. While there are already a number of news aggregation sites referring their readers back to CMSReport.com (and if you're one of them...we thank you), Alltop is special.
What makes Alltop so special? First of all, the site is a project associated with Guy Kawasaki. Guy Kawasaki has a history with Apple but he is one of those successful IT guys with so much confidence in himself that his time at Apple alone doesn't define him. If you check out his blog on a regular basis you'll come to understand what I'm trying to write here.
Secondly, Alltop is special because it was developed by a neighbor, Electric Pulp. Electric Pulp is based in my city, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I don't know what it is, but there seems to be a lot of successful tech companies with national presence to be found in Sioux Falls. Go figure that one out.
Leveraging feeds in Joomla 1.5
Joomlatools: "It's even more frustrating when I see a Joomla! 1.5 site that doesn't have proper feeds. J!1.5 makes it so easy, and still some people manage to mess it up."
Development Seed: FeedAPI 1.0 Released
I'm looking forward to evaluating the new FeedAPI module for Drupal. Though one feature I haven't seen in any of the aggregators I've seen so far for Drupal...a way to snip the original RSS feed. Some sites provide you the entire post in the RSS feed with no teaser. This may be great for the reader, but I'm not sure everyone is happy to see their entire post on someone else's site.
From time to time, I've hacked the core to get me closer to how I would like the content from an RSS feed to display at my site. There has to be another way and perhaps FeedAPI could by my solution...
Development Seed: FeedAPI 1.0 Released -
After being in development for about seven months, we released FeedAPI 1.0 nearly two weeks ago! This is really exciting for me and everyone else who has been craving a more flexible aggregator for Drupal.
Under the shadow of the news feed
This post you are reading has been saved unpublished for a few days as I have feared it reads too much as a rant. In this post, I'd like to discuss the difference between good and bad competition when it comes to similar "news sites" such as my own CMS Report. I also want to touch on about how a CMS such as Drupal and Joomla brings both the good and the ugly online. Unfortunately as with all technology, the modern CMS not only has been a blessing to sites dishing news for their writers and their users...but also a curse.
Paul Kim: RSS for the people
"I think there’s a lesson here for us as we think about helping more people get the full benefits of the Web. RSS is a fundamental technology that is changing and broadening the way everyone can find and stay up to date with information that matters to them. Yet awareness of RSS is minimal."
Owen Winkler: Planet WordPress and the Dashboard Feeds
"There are a bunch of folks who don’t get it or don’t like it, so I figured I would take the time to explain Planet WordPress to the extent that I can, since it seems that I’m the one that usually causes the most problems with duplicated feed items, etc.
Planet WordPress is a site that aggregates feeds from a number of users who have contributed to the WordPress Open Source project, or who provide good sources of information on WordPress, it’s themes, or it’s plugins. Planet WordPress produces a feed that is displayed in the Dashboard of most WordPress installations."
Eric Shepherd: Feed access fun
"I spent today writing myself a little RSS reader extension for Firefox 2. It just adds a clickable item in the status bar that, when clicked, opens up a new window and displays the contents of an RSS feed in it, with clickable links on the titles of each article that take you to the targeted site.
Nothing fancy, but it let me figure out a lot of stuff about how the new feed content API interfaces work. I’ve written the first bits of a document about them, and will be adding more content, including documentation for the interfaces themselves, over the next few days."
Complete StoryProviding Original Content and News Feeds
Given that this site, CMS Report, is less than six months old...I am truly amazed with the number of visitors the site receives in a day. While the number of visitors may be small compared to other well known sites, this is the first time I've had a site of my own that has drawn some attention. What a cool experience this has been!
I was flattered to see Drupal blogger, Greg Knaddison, mention CMS Report in one of his posts. Mr. Knaddison could have chosen for discussion so many other Drupal sites but for whatever reason he likes what he sees here. However, as postive as his message was for CMS Report, he also indicated through his post that the current mix of original content and aggregated news isn't for him.
With a tip of the hat to CMSReport. CMS report aggregates lots of content about all CMS, but they also have some original content. I'd prefer more of the latter and less of the former, but that's just me.
While CMS Report still needs to evolve and mature, its purpose was defined from the beginning. The primary mission of the site is to inform readers of the latest happenings in the world of content management systems. Now how that job gets done is another matter and readers have preferences.
Professional PHP: The Legality of Republishing RSS Feeds
"Tobias Schlitt "freaked out" today about PHP Freak's republishing of his blog feed. He publicly withdraws his implicit permission for PHP Freaks to republish content from his feeds. This is an interesting area of law. Eric Goldman has an rundown of the issues. In my mind, there's no question that a blogger grants an implied..."
Local Sioux Falls company does Feed Rinse
The local newspaper for Sioux Falls, SD contains an article about an online service called Feed Rinse. The service "can rinse your feeds by keyword, author, tag, etc, or filter profanity and more." According to the article, the service is making national headlines on their Feed Rinse product. I've never used the service, so I can't really give it thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Some excerpts from the Argus Leader:
Blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick said of FeedRinse: "A very nice feature that we don't have to hack and work around to make happen anymore."
The Associated Press dispatched a favorable review this week. Technology writer Brian Bergstein said, "I can see where the site could be a little simpler to use, but for the most part, it was clean, easy to figure out and worked as advertised."
That review appeared on dozens of prominent Web sites, including washingtonpost.com and ABC.com.
Ok so it may be a great product, but I think many reading the newspaper still do not quite get what a Web Feed is exactly. The following is a little bit of my explanation on what a Web feed is all about.
You've probably seen this symbol on the left posted on Web pages. That symbol is considered a "community mark" for letting everyone know that the Web site offers a Web feed (though I like to call them News Feeds). You may also see other symbols that contain either RSS or XML. These too are symbols to show that a Web Feed is available. If you click the icon your browser will be forwarded to a page with a lot of programming code that may not make a lot of sense to you. This source code contains the Web Feed for CMSReport's own headlines.
