The Chordata RSS and Atom newsfeed directory is offering a new service as of today called “Linkback”. Website owners who would like to have their own newsfeed directory, but don’t want to create or maintain one, can send their customers to Chordata, and have Chordata link back to them from each newsfeed page. The link […]

I released a new product last weekend, Tetra, that integrates with my RSS to HTML conversion script (CaRP) to put RSS newsfeeds into a DHTML (JavaScript) scroller. Tetra supports AJAX, enabling dynamic updating of the scroller’s contents without requiring the webpage to be reloaded. A large number of feeds could be aggregated into one scroller, […]

Today I’m not talking about how RSS or Atom feeds can bring lots of traffic into your site, I’m honestly wondering where all the traffic to my site is coming from. Since some time around midnight last night, the CaRP homepage has been getting a lot more traffic than usual. Naturally, after happily noticing the […]

As I mentioned a while back, my business is increasing focusing on RSS & Atom tools, leaving me little time to maintain SPAMbaffle. So I’ve decided to sell the codebase and the SPAMbaffle.com domain name. The price, which I didn’t mention previously, is $2000 (US) for both. Contact me if you’re interested.

Two simple steps to higher search engine placement: “Search Engine Optimization doesn’t have to mean paying gobs of money to self-proclaimed professionals with questionable qualifications. Nor does it have to mean hiring an army of copywriters to fill your site with content. Two simple steps will boost your search engine ranking and give visitors a […]

Chordata, my directory of RSS and Atom feeds has been growing quickly, and is soon to see some changes that should make it grow a lot faster. In preparation for that growth, I decided yesterday that it’s about time to give it a URL that’s more memorable and independent than “chordata.geckotribe.com”. Unfortunately, “chordata.com” was […]

The SOS Band may not have been thinking about web design when they recorded “Take Your Time (Do It Right)”, but that doesn’t mean we can’t apply their words to our craft. “Baby we can do it, take the time, do it right.” If you build your website right the first time, you’ll reap the […]

Support for the Atom format is growing, but it’s certainly not as extensive as support for RSS. Because of this, it is sometimes useful to be able to convert Atom feeds to RSS. If, for example, you are using CaRP to display RSS feeds on your website, and you find an Atom feed you’d like […]

Ever since I built CaRP to import news onto one of my websites (I wanted a way to keep it fresh without having to do any work myself), I’ve been using RSS feeds more and more to shuttle data around my sites. I added code to output RSS feeds from my discussion forums. I set […]

A week ago, I wrote a little about the challenge of finding quality newsfeeds. As I wrote, I got an idea for a new newsfeed directory that would make that easier. Since then, I’ve dropped most of my other work, copied a bunch of code from my existing sites, twisted and bullied it and written […]