I need to be notified on my blackberry of RSS events on a secure authenticated RSS feed. These notifications can be sms texts or preferably plain text emails. They could and should filter for keywords as the site doesn't as far as I can tell. I was thinking of using yahoo pipes but I have no idea how to start but I've heard its a good way to start. [more inside]
posted by Chamunks on Dec 13, 2009 - 3 answers

Help me make a silent mini-ITX or micro-ATX Intel Atom system with s-video or composite out. [more inside]
posted by Nonce on Aug 26, 2009 - 6 answers

Building your own RAID, let's talk hardware options... [more inside]
posted by lundman on Jun 8, 2009 - 4 answers

Is there an Atom or (better yet) AtomPub library for Python? [more inside]
posted by k7lim on Jan 22, 2009 - 4 answers

When I add a feed to my reader, do I want RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 or Atom? What's the practical difference?
posted by Yakuman on Jan 4, 2009 - 8 answers

How are the attributes of atomic and subatomic particles measured? [more inside]
posted by Citizen Premier on Sep 11, 2008 - 5 answers

What options do I have for a good web- (preferred) or desktop(Windows)-based RSS reader that has good options for managing older posts within feeds? [more inside]
posted by fsmontenegro on Sep 5, 2008 - 4 answers

What is the width of a single molecule of Tartrazine? Brilliant Blue FCF? [more inside]
posted by jwells on Apr 18, 2008 - 6 answers

I'd like a Flash video player of my video podcast on the web site, and a high-quality (960x540 should work) video file in the podcast feed. I'm currently using WordPress and PodPress to manage the feed and video. But I can see why some people who don't want to install QuickTime might not be able to see the show. [more inside]
posted by bryanjbusch on Jan 22, 2008 - 1 answer

Let's say someone dies and is cremated. What are the odds that an atom that was part of their body when they died becomes part of your body over the next 100 years that you live?
posted by snoogles on Jan 15, 2008 - 14 answers

I deleted every single entry from my blog so that I can start fresh. But all the old entries are showing up in RSS and Atom feeds. How can I make those go away too? [more inside]
posted by misanthropicsarah on Jan 12, 2008 - 6 answers

How can I create a singlegator site like Popurls? [more inside]
posted by elmwood on Sep 24, 2007 - 9 answers

Are there any web sites where you can enter a search term, and get an RSS feed of new results, like Google news alerts but over RSS rather then email? Are there any other interesting tools out for searching the blog sphere (besides technorati) [more inside]
posted by delmoi on Aug 28, 2007 - 8 answers

Searching through the tags, I don't think this has been asked before. I'm looking for feeds that I can slap into my Bloglines that will keep me updated on Nintendo DS releases and reviews. [more inside]
posted by Ufez Jones on Jun 27, 2007 - 7 answers

"A human is halfway in size between an atom and the known universe"... This is a paraphrased quote I have come across several times. I like it. Who said it first? How true is it in the most literal sense? And, finally, what errors arrive in postulating a universe, or an atom, which can be measured AT ALL from our singular, relativistic, perspective? [more inside]
posted by 0bvious on Feb 18, 2007 - 14 answers

Is there an RSS feed from which I can pull updating weather information for Mount Kilimanjaro's summit?
posted by o2b on Feb 5, 2007 - 2 answers

I want to aggregate some RSS feeds for a group of not-tech-savvy people... [more inside]
posted by symbebekos on Nov 5, 2006 - 7 answers

Digital Distribution Filter: It seems that the video on the internet can be put in two groups - the DIY (low production value) and the "produced" (iTunes, etc.) content. I'm pretty sure DIY content producers don't make any $, whereis "produced" content always needs to recoup. What kind of deals do iTunes or AtomFilms make for independently "produced" short film content, e.g. how much of that $1.99 does Apple keep? [more inside]
posted by andrewyakovlev on Aug 18, 2006 - 1 answer

Does an actual photos of small things like atoms, molecules or DNA? [more inside]
posted by anonpeon on Jul 24, 2006 - 15 answers

Did children actually believe that "Duck and Cover" would work? [more inside]
posted by interrobang on May 3, 2006 - 37 answers

Blog syndication: What standard (RSS, Atom, etc.) is best for syndicating full blog post contents? [more inside]
posted by cadge on May 2, 2006 - 7 answers

Is the atom chip vaporware? [more inside]
posted by blueyellow on Jan 6, 2006 - 4 answers

Basic RSS question-- I'm trying to add RSS to my site, and since I'm teaching this to myself, I'm confused. [more inside]
posted by madmath on Dec 29, 2005 - 10 answers

Please help me get the most out of newsfeeds/RSS/Atom/etc in order to best utilize my limited web time. [more inside]
posted by nevercalm on Nov 16, 2005 - 18 answers

Why does the text to a particular feed get smaller and smaller in bloglines? It looks like a vision test, where each paragraph is smaller than the previous one. Can I do anything about this? [more inside]
posted by callmejay on Nov 10, 2005 - 3 answers

I'm told that my weblog's atom feed is broken: according to feedvalidator.org this is because 'my feed appears to be encoded as "utf-8", but my server is reporting "US-ASCII". Is it advisable that I should persuade my server to report an 'utf-8', ecoding, and, if so, how? [more inside]
posted by misteraitch on Oct 26, 2005 - 9 answers

Amazon links and Typepad blogs don't play nice together. [more inside]
posted by Servo5678 on Aug 23, 2005 - 9 answers

How do I easily keep my feed subscriptions the same bewteen FeedDemon on Windows and NetNewsWire on Mac OS X? [more inside]
posted by dnm on Jun 23, 2005 - 4 answers

Can anyone suggest good PHP books or existing scripts that can help me successfully parse RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom 0.3 feeds, then save them to a MySQL database? [more inside]
posted by jeanmari on Mar 28, 2005 - 3 answers

The W3C has invited Atom to create a formal working group as a part of their organization, as opposed to the IETF. What are the major differences, politically and historically, between the IETF and W3C?
posted by djacobs on May 13, 2004 - 2 answers

I don't understand RSS, and even less so, Atom. Can anyone provide a simple layman's explanation of them? [more inside]
posted by swank6 on Mar 29, 2004 - 6 answers

I'm trying to write a short Perl script under Mac OS X (Panther) to post to a Moveable Type weblog using the Atom API. After some initial problems with installing packages, I'm having this issue. [more inside] [more inside]
posted by mmangano on Feb 7, 2004 - 2 answers