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2006-10-31, 02:22 PM
I've set up an RSS feed (well, ATOM, technically) to hold you over until the official one is online, since the other ones I found didn't seem to be working:
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~haugen/oots.atom
This is usually updated once or twice a day, but no promises. It's essentially a reformatted http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html. The <updated> field isn't right, but it seems to work with my reader.
What is RSS? Feeds are just a list of new items published on a site, formatted in a standard way. You can use aggregator software to automatically check your feeds and show you the new items - the software keeps track of what you've already read and just shows you the new stuff. Now you don't need to keep reloading Comics.html, you can wait and you'll be notified automatically. Check out http://reader.google.com, which aggregates all your feeds onto one website, or http://rsspopper.blogspot.com/2004/10/home.html, which will email you when there is a new item.
Of course I'll take this down if the appropriate people ask, but I'm assuming it's ok because I do not include the comic in the feed, only a link to it, so this is sort of the moral equivalent of setting up a mailing list to let folks know when there is a new comic, or writing and distributing software that checks Comics.html. Surely those wouldn't be objectionable.
-erik
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~haugen/oots.atom
This is usually updated once or twice a day, but no promises. It's essentially a reformatted http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html. The <updated> field isn't right, but it seems to work with my reader.
What is RSS? Feeds are just a list of new items published on a site, formatted in a standard way. You can use aggregator software to automatically check your feeds and show you the new items - the software keeps track of what you've already read and just shows you the new stuff. Now you don't need to keep reloading Comics.html, you can wait and you'll be notified automatically. Check out http://reader.google.com, which aggregates all your feeds onto one website, or http://rsspopper.blogspot.com/2004/10/home.html, which will email you when there is a new item.
Of course I'll take this down if the appropriate people ask, but I'm assuming it's ok because I do not include the comic in the feed, only a link to it, so this is sort of the moral equivalent of setting up a mailing list to let folks know when there is a new comic, or writing and distributing software that checks Comics.html. Surely those wouldn't be objectionable.
-erik