Bring out your RSS 1.0!

Praise Murphy, it looks like the gathering, parsing, and storing part of my RDF in RSS project is working. Now, I need your help feeding it. So far, I’m getting:

http://www.philringnalda.com/index.rdf
http://www.philringnalda.com/comments.rdf
http://weblog.burningbird.net/index.rdf
http://www.ninjakitten.net/digiboy/index.xml
http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/RSS
http://rss.benhammersley.com/index.rdf
http://rss.benhammersley.com/comments.rss
http://diveintomark.org/xml/rss_full.xml
http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/index.rdf
http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/comments.rdf
http://www.megnut.com/index.rdf
http://www.yarinareth.net/caveatlector/index.rdf
http://weblog.delacour.net/index.rdf
http://snowdeal.org/syndication/machina.rdf
http://www.10500bc.org/index.rdf
http://q.queso.com/index.rdf
http://www.shannoncampbell.info/journal/index.rdf
http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/index.rdf
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/index.xml
http://simon.incutio.com/syndicate/rss1.0
http://www.justagwailo.com/movableblog/index.rdf
http://www.disobey.com/dnn/index.xml
http://www.pipetree.com/~dj/qmacro.rss10
http://ln.hixie.ch/?command=RSS
http://internetalchemy.org/index.rss
http://www.mplode.com/tima/xml/index.rdf

Got a techie (or not-so-techie, but likely to intersect with some of those) RSS 1.0 feed, of your blog or for major bonus points your blog and your recent comments? Drop the url in my comments. Next up, adding in FOAF, so if you’ve got a FOAF file that you think I might have missed over the last couple of days, leave a URL for that too, please.

Questions:

Would it be OK with everyone if I grab your FOAF file once an hour, like I’m grabbing your RSS file(s)? I can do it as a separate cron job with a separate schedule, but I’d rather not bother, since I’d need a whole separate table in the db, and a separate script to read, get, and parse.

Until I get a better feel for it (and do some serious reading on database query security), I’m thinking about just canned queries, where you can do things like pick a <foaf:Person> that I know about from a dropdown list, and then get a list of things that they created or contributed to in the last x days. What sort of things would you want to ask a big stew of RDF statements from RSS and FOAF?

14 Comments

Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2002-09-22 19:44:05

Oh, damn it all, I forgot to deal with blank nodes: something that’s #genid14 the first time I parse a file may well be #genid17 the next time around. Ack, and ulp.

 
 
Comment by Phil #
2002-09-22 20:31:31

Interesting. It almost looks like EspressoBlog might be sending incorrect ping URLs, which is probably something I need to fix.

 
Comment by Mark Pilgrim #
2002-09-22 20:49:35

Um, grabbing FOAF files once an hour seems a bit much. Are they likely to change that often? Maybe better to have separate two jobs.

 
Comment by john #
2002-09-22 21:17:19

http://www.inluminent.com/weblog/index.rdf

working on the comments rdf now…

 
Comment by l.m.orchard #
2002-09-22 22:07:22

FOAF me :) RSS 1.0 coming soon

http://www.decafbad.com/gems/lmo-foaf.rdf

 
Comment by DJ #
2002-09-22 23:35:57

Hi Phil

Nice idea. This is something I was wanting to do too (but am going on hols this week and won’t be back until mid-Oct, so haven’t started). Good luck with it!

I’m ok with you grabbing things every hour from pipetree.com (thanks for asking).

dj

 
Comment by john #
2002-09-22 23:53:48

comments feed completed:

http://www.inluminent.com/weblog/comments.rdf

now to figure out how to do the foaf stuff…

 
Comment by Marcus #
2002-09-23 13:26:32

w00t. All done.

http://www.ninjakitten.net/digiboy/comments.rdf
http://www.ninjakitten.net/digiboy/foaf.rdf

I don’t really mind the FOAF file being grabbed hourly, but once I get it set up properly I can’t see it changing any more than once a month. :)

 
Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2002-09-23 14:01:50

Not a problem: I need to do a little special-casing for FOAF (or I think I do, this minute), so I’m setting it up for every 24 hours. That may still be unreasonably often, but I can’t see where anyone will really notice the bandwidth cost (except maybe while I’m testing: sorry, I’m gonna be bad for a while).

 
Comment by Earle Martin #
2002-09-26 22:29:48

Hello.

Feed: http://troubledwater.livejournal.com/rss (Yes, us LiveJournal weenies can do RSS too.)
FOAF: http://downlode.org/foaf/foaf.rdf

 
Trackback by Among Other Things #
2002-09-22 20:29:57

Syndication and RDF, good old-fashioned nerdiness

You know, I have to give it to that bugger Phil Ringnalda – if anyone could get me interested in RDF, it’d be him. Therefore, I’ve started syndicating (in RDF 1.0 format)…

 
Trackback by Among Other Things #
2002-09-22 21:06:39

Once more into the breach, m’lads

You know, I bet this pinging from me is getting a tad annoying, eh? ;) But the bug with EspressoBlog and the URLs it sends for pings should be fixed. And since Phil gets a large readership, and I am trying to tempt him to the Light Side of the Force, I…

 
Trackback by inluminent/weblog #
2002-09-23 00:09:23

new comments RDF feed

Due to some developments by Phil, and using his template and plugin for movable type, I’ve created a comments RDF

 
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