EContentMag RSS Feeds - Ain’t nothing like the real thing baby!

July 16th, 2004

Last week, I mentioned that Bill French had created (read scraped) numerous RSS Feeds for EContent Magazine. Well, I just got off the phone with Bill Spence at InfoToday and he told me that Econtent now has put up their own RSS Feeds. Hip Hip Hooray! As I have mentioned, third party feeds (aka scrapes) are not the best way to do provide content. It’s better to convince the content provider of the powers of RSS (which Jenny and I have done consistently with InfoToday) and to get them to do it themselves, and InfoToday has done so. Great job Bill (and his staff).

Here is the rundown: They provide 21 feeds from their Econtent Research Centers, a feed of the ten most popular recent articles, which can be customized. Also (and this blows my mind because they “get it”), users can get a personalized feed using the following URL: http://www.econtentmag.com/rss/default.aspx?Criteria=search&query=. Just place your keyword or key phrase after the “query=” and you have a personalized feed.

Bill also mentioned that they are going to be doing this for some of their other products in the future. This is great news for the information professional community as it shows that we are (and need to be) constantly ahead of the curve when it comes to content delivery. I’m a very happy librarian today.

Thanks again Bill.

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