RSS

June 08, 2005 [Meta, Tech]

I really should provide an RSS feed. Does anyone know of a good reference on the simplest form of RSS that I can use to auto-generate some RSS from the HTML of this page? I'm prepared to do a little python coding to make it happen. Give me an email if so.

Speaking of giving me an email, wouldn't it be great if I could have a proper blog that allowed comments? Well, I'd need a web host that allowed PHP or something, and that would cost money. If anyone knows of a good free hosting service (built on Free Software, preferably) let me know. I've registered on advogato.org but although I have finally managed to work out how to post to a blog, it doesn't allow comments, so the only benefit it offers is an RSS feed, and the lack of control is not worth that to me yet. I may get frustrated with my home-grown HTML/FTP solution, but for the moment I'm quite enjoying it.