You got your RSS in my Treo!

I recently wrote a blog post about my favourite sources for custom RSS feeds. While simply subscribing to these feeds can be an effective and efficient way of staying on top of a topic or field, custom feeds really come into their own when you want to quickly build a topical page of content.

This Treo resource page demonstrates the joys of custom RSS. Everything on here was generated from the RSS feeds listed below, and aggregated onto this WordPress page via the RSS Fetched Link List plug-in. Depending on your version of RSS Fetched Link List and WordPress you may also need to install EZStatic so that RSS Fetched Link List can work its magic.

Note to RSS Fetched Link List users: the exact code I insert in the page for each individual feed I want to aggregate is:

< ?php _rssLinkList(array(“rss_feed_url”=>”http://url_of_rss_feed”, “num_items”=>8, “show_description”=>true, “before”=>”<p>”, “after”=>”</p>”,”description_seperator”=>”<br />”)); ?>

…where url_of_rss_feed is replaced by (you guessed it) the URL of the RSS feed you want to aggregate.

from Technorati tag page:
< ?php _rssLinkList(array("rss_feed_url"=>“http://feeds.technorati.com/feed/posts/tag/treo”, “num_items”=>8, “show_description”=>true, “before”=>”

“, “after”=>”

“,”description_seperator”=>”
“)); ?>

from Pubsub blog subscription:
< ?php _rssLinkList(array("rss_feed_url"=>“http://atom.pubsub.com/24/04/3bea254685afc5629f24700088.xml”, “num_items”=>8, “show_description”=>true, “before”=>”

“, “after”=>”

“,”description_seperator”=>”
“)); ?>

from PubSub newsgroup subscription:
< ?php _rssLinkList(array("rss_feed_url"=>“http://atom.pubsub.com/f2/30/2d1c4c73420c6fc412658785ca.xml”, “num_items”=>8, “show_description”=>true, “before”=>”

“, “after”=>”

“,”description_seperator”=>”
“)); ?>

from Dulance:
< ?php _rssLinkList(array("rss_feed_url"=>“http://www.dulance.com/rss?query=treo&showcomp=false&showaccessories=false&showaffiliates=false&showmismatch=false&shownotfound=false&showallsite=false&source=1&shownew=true&showused=true&showrefurbished=true&showoutofstock=true&minprice=&maxprice=&uid=85la37qp8vpk0du11okbetpls8″, “num_items”=>8, “show_description”=>true, “before”=>”

“, “after”=>”

“,”description_seperator”=>”
“)); ?>

from del.icio.us tag feed:
< ?php _rssLinkList(array("rss_feed_url"=>“http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/treo” , “num_items”=>8, “show_description”=>true, “before”=>”

“, “after”=>”

“,”description_seperator”=>”
“)); ?>

from BlogMarks:
< ?php _rssLinkList(array("rss_feed_url"=>“http://api.blogmarks.net/rss/tag/treo”, “num_items”=>8, “show_description”=>true, “before”=>”

“, “after”=>”

“,”description_seperator”=>”
“)); ?>

from flickr feed:< ?php _rssLinkList(array("rss_feed_url"=>“http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=treo&format=rss_200″, “num_items”=>8, “show_description”=>true, “before”=>”

“, “after”=>”

“,”description_seperator”=>”
“)); ?>

from Organic Broadcast Network:
< ?php _rssLinkList(array("rss_feed_url"=>“http://broadcast.organicframework.com/?p=156&as_xml=1&search=treo&exact_match=&offset=&return_sort=relevance”, “num_items”=>8, “show_description”=>true, “before”=>”

“, “after”=>”

“,”description_seperator”=>”
“)); ?>

from Yahoo! news search:
< ?php _rssLinkList(array("rss_feed_url"=>“http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=treo&ei=UTF-8″, “num_items”=>8, “show_description”=>true, “before”=>”

“, “after”=>”

“,”description_seperator”=>”
“)); ?>

from Google news:
< ?php _rssLinkList(array("rss_feed_url"=>“http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=treo&ie=UTF-8&output=rss”, “num_items”=>8, “show_description”=>true, “before”=>”

“, “after”=>”

“,”description_seperator”=>”
“)); ?>