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Mark Fiore needs an RSS feed
At tonight's Online News Association get-together (more on that later), I hooked up with Mark Fiore, the brilliant online cartoonist whom I've interviewed twice for OJR.
I pulled Mark aside after his presentation and said he needed to get an RSS feed for his cartoon. He said he'd only recently become aware of RSS but was game.
So: How do we get Mark an RSS feed?
Later: I should have mentioned Steve Rubel's post from Tuesday: An RSS Hack for Sites That Don't Offer Feeds.
Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster, also has this suggestion: "The quick and easy thing is for him to up load his cartoons to a lickr account."
September 22, 2004 at 01:08 AM in New media | Permalink
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It depends how his blog / website is run. On my own site, I've put together a pretty simple php script that can output an RSS feed readable by Bloglines and the like. No doubt a simple script can be made for his site, especially if the information is already in a database.
(by the way, I've been reading your site for a while, but haven't commented. Good stuff.)
Posted by: Brian Hamman at Sep 22, 2004 7:41:14 AM
I'd worked with Mark's stuff a bit when I was still at the Village Voice, and it seems like the easiest thing to do would be to use a blog tool to publish the cartoons as they go up. Each cartoon would be its own post.
The folks in the web dep't at the Voice are pretty clueful, if he wants, I'm sure they'd do an RSS feed for his cartoons on their site.
Posted by: Anil Dash at Sep 22, 2004 6:14:37 PM
I created a feed for Fiore a long time ago:
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/salon?topic=mark_fiore&comic=swf
I don't know if there's a better source to scrape or not.
Posted by: Aaron Swartz at Sep 22, 2004 8:14:05 PM
Thanks, Aaron, very cool! I guess I'm asking, why resort to scraping a feed when there should be a way to set up a more reliable and predictable one?
Incidentally, the scraped feed may work for others, but FeedDemon just told me: "This feed contains errors. If you're the author of this feed, check it with the Feed Validator (Missing namespace for content:encoded)."
Posted by: JD at Sep 23, 2004 12:55:41 AM
