What is this?
RSS is a technology which is common now. If you subscribe to it, using a browser (such as Firefox) or some other application, it will do automatic checks to see if there are any updates. News sites do this a lot.
For example, here are my bookmarks in Firefox. I don’t even have to check the Ministry site for updates - I just subscribe to the site’s RSS feed, and the bookmarks will keep on checking if there are any updated. It lists me the headline for each news entry.
As you can see below, it gives me the latest headlines from the ministry page. I can open them one by one or in different tabs, and it will take me right to the news article.
Let me know if this makes sense. It is basically a way for you to see if there are any updates to the news section without visiting the site.
My wife suggested:
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This is very cool…I always thought about this feature (can’t believe I didn’t know about this [crazy]). I like the idea of being notified of a new posting rather than wasting my time looking at something that hasn’t changed. Also, the response time is more precise, excellent decision.
I’m going to try to set this up. [cool]
Yeah, for OS X, one can use NewsFire to read the stuff.
Here is the list of the latest articles (on the right hand side):
And here, I’m actually reading the news:
All without touching the browser…It automatically downloads the new entries on this site 
Tell me how it works out…
Is anyone else using this?
i’d love to use it but i dunno how to make it work in my mozilla firefox and too lazy to search around the internet
so afra, can you sorta post a tutorial?
i’d love to use it but i dunno how to make it work in my mozilla firefox and too lazy to search around the internet
so afra, can you sorta post a tutorial?
When you visit:
http://www.prongs.org/ministry/news
You should see an orange icon (or some other icon) on the bototm right of Firefox. Click on the icon and choose Subscribe.
Let me know if this helped.
uh
maybe it needs sort of plugin or something
i’m using firefox 1.0.4
and i get
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
- <rss version=“2.0”>
- <channel>
<title>Ministry News Feed</title>
<link>http://www.prongs.org/ministry</link>
<description>The news pages for Ministry.</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<managingEditor>contact@prongs.org</managingEditor>
<webMaster>contact@prongs.org</webMaster>
<docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
<ttl>60</ttl>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:35:14 CST</pubDate>
<lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:35:14 CST</lastBuildDate>
etc
Must still need some tweaking for Firefox users Afra. gila’s right. The icon doesn’t appear at the bottom of my screen like it does on other sites. Though I clicked on it, and it shows all the code and shows the news, but it’s all mashed together.
I haven’t used the RSS much, but maybe I should more. Looks interesting.
uh
maybe it needs sort of plugin or something
i’m using firefox 1.0.4
and i get
…
etc
That’s because you’re going to http://www.prongs.org/ministry/rss . Go to http://www.prongs.org/ministry/news instead and then look for the icon on the browser window as such:
On Firefox, I see that bright orange icon (on the bottom right) when I visit the site and just click on it and choose “Subscribe”…
Lemme know if this helps or not…
Whoops, my bad. [blush] It does work on the news page, I just didn’t notice it before.
ohhhh!
yea i’ll try that tomorrow, i’m at work now
sounds really nice though
oh yea it works but not on the main page.
that icon is only on NEWS page.
anyway good stuff.