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"The potential is limitless because creative minds have but scratched the surface of RSS syndication." |
Blogs are nothing new. As you already know, a ‘blog’ is an online digital journal. The word ‘blog’ is a compound of the two words ‘web’ and ‘log’. Journals have been in existence since language has been in
existence. What was once remembered, written and dated in long hand is now typed and saved and converted to web-ready format. Writers wrote before blogs. Writers write on blogs now. Who knows? In twenty years, writers might appear in holograms, projected from networked chips, implanted in our brains.
The point is, at this moment...blogs are hot. Everybody loves blogs. News reporters love blogs. Advertisers love blogs. Surfers love blogs. Search engines love blogs. Adult webmasters love blogs.
The concept of articles and stories, distributed to the masses is not unique. The concept of distributing articles and stories online is not unique. Promoting those articles and stories to the online audience
has been done. What makes blog software so appealing is that it compiles all the pages and images, automatically updates, re- paginates, archives and links accordingly and then the software
generates an XML document, suitable for pinging to RSS directories and aggregators. Blogs are hot because they’re tiny network broadcast stations and because blog software is RSS friendly. Blogs are cool
because blogs love RSS.
In this article I will try to give you an understanding of RSS and it’s complimentary format, XML.
RSS is a format that works comparable to how browser software works - when it communicates simultaneously to web server and home PC in order to read an HTML page. RSS is kind of like HTTP protocol except RSS isn’t a protocol. Whatever.
When you create a page and save it as .xml as opposed to .html, .asp or .php; RSS can scan that XML page for new content, collate and create a link for a headline and distribute that headline on an RSS
feed/channel. RSS reads the pages in your web directory and finds the .xml documents. RSS can also take your XML pages and feed them into the reader software of a rapidly growing audience, cellphone
users.
That's right. Surprised you, didn’t I? Do you realize that at least a billion people will purchase a new cell phone this coming quarter? While cellphones may not replace personal computers completely, more
and more users are opting to access the Internet via their wireless phones. Newer cell phones can check email, run IM messaging and even browse web pages. Today’s cellphones can also do what they’ve been able to do for a while, read and display XML pages. Cellphones love RSS feeds.
RSS stands for a few things. RSS is an acronym for the standards: ‘Really Simple Syndication’, ‘Rich Site Summary’ and ‘RDF Site Summary’. RSS comes from earlier technology, trained to cull
metadata from websites. The language structure of an RSS/XML document resembles HTML only with alternate brackets and tags. If you are familiar with HTML, XML/RSS will not look like Greek.
As web browser software can download and display an HTML page, RSS reader software can download and display an XML page. Better yet, RSS users can download the ‘headlines’ off of as many individual RSS feeds as they subscribe to. With RSS site syndication, you have the ability to transmit your freshest news and updates, automatically, to potentially millions of people, for free. RSS is transmission and traffic generation beyond search engines and link sites.
How would An adult webmaster use RSS? The answer is limitless. You can use RSS to disburse news about your most recent paysite. You can use it to keep members up to date on popular content. You might dispense erotic stories. You could keep adult classified users in touch with RSS feeds. If you run an adult blog or message board you can notify fans of new entries, comments and posts. The potential is limitless because creative minds have but scratched the surface of RSS syndication.
If you want to fully understand RSS and XML, this article won’t be enough. You’re going to have to ride the wild Google and do some self- educating. A great place to start is the W3C School. Run by the World Wide Web Consortium, this is the definitive destination for learning to create compliant RSS/XML:
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