Wednesday, March 19, 2008

XpRSSive!

Hooray for the continued bastardisation of the English language, break those grammatical boundaries and make not only your own words, but your own sentence structures!

OK opening joke complete, onto my exploration of the world of RSS. As my previous post may suggest, I'm quite the music nutter, and am often trawling away in hoping that the net will yield up the information on my favourite bands and any current releases that may be coming forthwith! So I figure there must be of course an RSS feed that surely will fuel my desire for such data. I was quite happy to see that Rolling Stone and JJJ have these, as well as JJJ offering pod casts too!

However, when I decided to delve deeper and actually look at the information posted in the news feeds, they often led me to websites that also looked like they had gotten their information from somewhere else, perhaps another feed from a website. Which of course leads me to wonder how many feeds have been, well, fed this information already, perhaps rephrasing the information (or translating) and how much of the information has degraded along the line.

Also, having at the rather wide but at the same time very narrow interests in certain types of music, I found it hard for any one service that catered to my needs. But there is a wide wold of RSS feeds to explore, perhaps it still eludes me! The hunt is on!

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