RSS Feeds

**Greg** · Nov 10, 2005, 1:10 PM

First of all, for those not familiar with RSS, here is a great article about it. I went ahead and added a few new RSS feeds as follows:

AlpineZone Message Board RSS Feed: Displays the last 50 threads based on initial post date.
AlpineZone News RSS Feed: Displays the 50 latest articles from the news.alpinezone.com Web site.
Northeast Skiing & Snow Boarding Trip Reports RSS Feed: Displays the last 50 skiing/riding trip reports posted by AZ members.

I've also update the site's code to allow Firefox users to easily add these feeds to their live bookmarks by clicking this icon

in the bottom right corner of their Firefox browser window. I know their are a number of RSS fans here so I hope you find these useful. For those AZ members that have their own Web sites, feel free to use these feeds to display the syndicated content if you wish. Enjoy!

**Greg** · Nov 10, 2005, 1:19 PM

BTW, here are few portals where you can add content modules using RSS feeds:

http://www.google.com/ig
http://my.yahoo.com/
http://my.msn.com/

I'm sure there are several others.

kcyanks1 · Nov 13, 2005, 8:20 AM

Great, thanks! I could be in the minority, so it's just one person's suggestion, but does anyone else thing it might be better to have it display fewer articles? Especially as the season goes on and posts become more popular. It seems that most RSS feeds I use display around the most recent 15. In any case, thanks!

**Greg** · Nov 14, 2005, 10:41 AM

Yeah - perhaps 50 is a bit much, but I thought that was more of a function of the reader to display the last X items...?

**Greg** · Nov 14, 2005, 11:40 AM

Now that Snocountry is pushing out data feeds for snow conditions, I've set up an RSS feed for each state:

http://skiing.alpinezone.com/reports.htm (click on XML link)

In each item's description, I've included surface conditions, number of trails open and number of lifts open. Bretton Woods and Woodbury are both reporting so you can see how it will be displayed by looking at the New Hampshire and Connecticut feeds. Clicking the resort link in the feed will bring up the report with more detail.

Enjoy!

hammer · Nov 14, 2005, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greg

Yeah - perhaps 50 is a bit much, but I thought that was more of a function of the reader to display the last X items...?

FYI...here's a link I saw on how to limit the number of live bookmarks that are displayed on Firefox. The file modification's a bit of a pain, but it seems to work.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=314497

kcyanks1 · Nov 14, 2005, 8:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greg

Yeah - perhaps 50 is a bit much, but I thought that was more of a function of the reader to display the last X items...?

I normally just use Firefox's live bookmarks as opposed to an RSS reader (though I occasionally use Sage within Firefox), and it seems that different feeds have different numbers of items, and I know I haven't set anything. I quickly looked on the properties of one of my feeds in the live bookmark and in Sage, and didn't see how I could choose the # of items, but perhaps I missed it. In any case, it's not a crucial thing.

kcyanks1 · Nov 14, 2005, 8:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hammer

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greg

Yeah - perhaps 50 is a bit much, but I thought that was more of a function of the reader to display the last X items...?

FYI...here's a link I saw on how to limit the number of live bookmarks that are displayed on Firefox. The file modification's a bit of a pain, but it seems to work.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=314497

Thanks, I'll have a look.

**Greg** · Nov 15, 2005, 8:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kcyanks1

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greg

Yeah - perhaps 50 is a bit much, but I thought that was more of a function of the reader to display the last X items...?

I normally just use Firefox's live bookmarks as opposed to an RSS reader (though I occasionally use Sage within Firefox), and it seems that different feeds have different numbers of items, and I know I haven't set anything. I quickly looked on the properties of one of my feeds in the live bookmark and in Sage, and didn't see how I could choose the # of items, but perhaps I missed it. In any case, it's not a crucial thing.

I hear ya. Perhaps 50 is a bit much. I suppose I should aim for the number of items that one would expect on any given day. Probably something like 25 is more reasonable for both new forum threads as well as news articles. Just be sure to check every day!

I'm working on listing all the feeds on one page. I'll post something shortly about that.

**Greg** · Nov 15, 2005, 1:41 PM

I went ahead and created a single page that lists all the RSS feeds available as well as a few links to pages that discuss RSS and how/why to use it:

http://rss.alpinezone.com/

Nov 10, 2005, 1:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
Greg Mad River Glen - 2/8/08 Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Thomaston, CT Posts: 18,044	RSS Feeds First of all, for those not familiar with RSS, here is a great article about it. I went ahead and added a few new RSS feeds as follows: AlpineZone Message Board RSS Feed: Displays the last 50 threads based on initial post date. AlpineZone News RSS Feed: Displays the 50 latest articles from the news.alpinezone.com Web site. Northeast Skiing & Snow Boarding Trip Reports RSS Feed: Displays the last 50 skiing/riding trip reports posted by AZ members. I've also update the site's code to allow Firefox users to easily add these feeds to their live bookmarks by clicking this icon in the bottom right corner of their Firefox browser window. I know their are a number of RSS fans here so I hope you find these useful. For those AZ members that have their own Web sites, feel free to use these feeds to display the syndicated content if you wish. Enjoy! __________________ Greg 2007-08, 2006-07, 2005-06, 2004-05 Life's too short for warm up runs.

Nov 10, 2005, 1:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
Greg Mad River Glen - 2/8/08 Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Thomaston, CT Posts: 18,044	BTW, here are few portals where you can add content modules using RSS feeds: http://www.google.com/ig http://my.yahoo.com/ http://my.msn.com/ I'm sure there are several others. __________________ Greg 2007-08, 2006-07, 2005-06, 2004-05 Life's too short for warm up runs.

Nov 13, 2005, 8:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
kcyanks1 Sugarbush Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: New York, NY Posts: 1,031	Great, thanks! I could be in the minority, so it's just one person's suggestion, but does anyone else thing it might be better to have it display fewer articles? Especially as the season goes on and posts become more popular. It seems that most RSS feeds I use display around the most recent 15. In any case, thanks! __________________ -Kenny

Nov 14, 2005, 10:41 AM	#4 (permalink)
Greg Mad River Glen - 2/8/08 Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Thomaston, CT Posts: 18,044	Yeah - perhaps 50 is a bit much, but I thought that was more of a function of the reader to display the last X items...? __________________ Greg 2007-08, 2006-07, 2005-06, 2004-05 Life's too short for warm up runs.

Nov 14, 2005, 11:40 AM	#5 (permalink)
Greg Mad River Glen - 2/8/08 Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Thomaston, CT Posts: 18,044	Snow conditions RSS Feeds! Now that Snocountry is pushing out data feeds for snow conditions, I've set up an RSS feed for each state: http://skiing.alpinezone.com/reports.htm (click on XML link) In each item's description, I've included surface conditions, number of trails open and number of lifts open. Bretton Woods and Woodbury are both reporting so you can see how it will be displayed by looking at the New Hampshire and Connecticut feeds. Clicking the resort link in the feed will bring up the report with more detail. Enjoy! __________________ Greg 2007-08, 2006-07, 2005-06, 2004-05 Life's too short for warm up runs.

Nov 15, 2005, 1:41 PM	#10 (permalink)
Greg Mad River Glen - 2/8/08 Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Thomaston, CT Posts: 18,044	I went ahead and created a single page that lists all the RSS feeds available as well as a few links to pages that discuss RSS and how/why to use it: http://rss.alpinezone.com/ __________________ Greg 2007-08, 2006-07, 2005-06, 2004-05 Life's too short for warm up runs.

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