New Guam RSS feeds - Flickr-like communiy image gallery / police blotter
I rolled out my company's new RSS feeds for Guam news, developing
an RSS 2.0 feed for Familiar Faces, which is
our Guam community image gallery. I got the idea for an image-heavy RSS feed from
Flickr. I also did
a feed for
our local police blotter. Why it is that people are so driven to police blotters and obituaries is beyond me.
The latter is of particular interest, since it's based on transforming one custom XML structure into RSS. Our local police force e-mail us the blotter updates, which are - GROAN! - manually inserted from a Word document into an XML fie and then uploaded to our web server. This same document populates the public web blotter, albeit in RSS 2.0 form.
I'm planning on using a similar strategy to get our obituaries, community events calendar, speeches, and other kinds ofdata with semi-consistent structure and great frequency out to our audiences. Not a bad way to spend a morning, eh?