More RSS Experimentation
Released alpha version .03 of the experimental local news portal SanAntonioNews.com.
The site is focused on exploring the new tools for RSS feed blending, splicing and remixing. Version .03 adds a modest new jobs section which supplies a listing of the 25 freshest job postings in San Antonio.
Rather than doing a RSS remix of several San Antonio employment related RSS feeds to accomplish this step, decided to try using one of the job opportunity aggregation sites. My two current favorite search engines operating in the employment space are Indeed and Simply Hired. Went with Simply Hired to provide the RSS feed because I thought their RSS implementation was currently a little stronger than Indeed. A few months ago I might have said Indeed was the stronger player in that niche, but I think Simply Hired has made up ground.
With Simply Hired doing all the work aggregating and splicing new San Antonio job listings into a unified RSS feed I was able to skip the step of using feedblendr or another tool like it to splice and remix the feed. Sweet.
So on to the next step - the RSS to javascript translation for getting it into HTML format. This time used feed2js to convert the feed into javascript. feed2js is another great tool built on the opensource MagpieRSS platform.
Have started work on v.04 which includes some slightly more ambitious offerings.
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