Business News with RSS
Keeping track of business news is an important for business people. With so many things happening in the business world, it is not easy to do so. There are so many hours a day to look through all the newspaper and news website. Luckily, with technology we can aggregate business news with RSS.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is a technology that publishes frequently updated works. It is normally used for blogs and news. The output of RSS is called feed. RSS feeds can be read using RSS reader, feed reader or aggregator. The output format is XML (eXtended Markup Language). This is a universal format that can be read by many different programs.
The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed’s URI (uniform resource identifier) into the reader or by clicking on the RSS icon (
) in a browser that will initiate the subscription process.
In this post I would like to introduce sending feed to JavaScript that you can post on your webpage. As an example you can see my Business News page. This page is produced using the service from Feed2JS.
First you have to find the RSS source of the web address for the feed. When you are on the news page that you would like to get the feed, you need to find the RSS link (or sometimes called syndication). You can usually find such as:
Just copy the link address and paste onto Feed2JS and follow the instructions.
On your blog, just create a new page and past the provided JavaScript. Just like me, you can put few news feeds on the same page so that you can read all the news together. If you are more advanced, you can even customize the sytle with your own stylesheet. You can do that on the style page of Feed2JS.
Actually there are many other sites with similar features, but I found out Feed2JS is stable and easy to use.
Please share your experience as I am also learning and interested in new and better ways to do things.
