RSS Technologies
Create Voice-enabled RSS News Feeds
The proliferation of RSS feeds by state and local governments offers a unique opportunity to expand the delivery of the critical information by leveraging the most ubiquitous personal communications device in the world — the telephone. Learn here how to transform RSS content into VoiceXML, an open standard for developing telephony applications, and dramatically expand [...]
Blog — Dictionary Word of the Year
Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster’s reports that “Blog” tops their list of the 10 words of the year. Merriam-Webster Inc. said on Tuesday that blog, defined as “a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks,” was the most looked-up word on its Internet sites this year. The list is compiled [...]
Are you Chief Blogging Officer Material?
Does your state or agency have a Chief Blogging Officer? Government is already rife with chiefs, why not one more? HighBeam Research, Inc. has set the pace by announcing today the appointment of Christopher Locke as its Chief Blogging Officer (CBO). HighBeam also announces a pilot program offering a select group of bloggers exclusive use [...]
Google News Feed Generator
Unlike Yahoo, Google has had a long standing resistance to offering RSS feeds for Google News queries. In the spirit of pre-existing Google News to RSS hacks, Justin Pfister has now created “gnewsfeed.” Filling out a form converts a Google news query into an RSS feed. News z: Ray Matthews