| BBC World Service goes RSS
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This is way cool — a major news service (hey, we're talking The Beeb here!) distributing its news by letting us view it wherever and whenever we want. And in lots of languages.
Here's an informal email (lightly edited) from someone who works there:
BBC World Service have gone public with RSS 1.0 feeds
I'm proud to say we at the BBC World service have launched RSS 1.0 (RDF) feeds to the public and automatic discovery of the rss feed is also in place.
There is no help or notification page of any type yet because we are tackling the problem of working with many different languages. The multi-language rss reader and aggregator market is still very much in flux it would seem. We are very much relying on automatic discovery at this stage, as not to confuse our audience.
We chose RSS 1.0 because of its universal acceptance throughout the blog/web sphere and it includes a date element for every single news entry, giving our audience a better experience of RSS. In the future we may offer RSS 2.0.
We do not believe anyone else has RSS syndication in as many languages as we currently do, making this a worlds first for the BBC. We have yet to release any information to the press or news sites like Slashdot or boingboing yet because we have not created pages to help people who are unfamiliar with rss.
—- If you would like to try some of the World service RSS, here are some examples.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/albanian/index.rdf Albanian news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/albanian/indepth/index.rdf - Albanian in-depth news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/albanian/pressreview/index.rdf - Albanian press review
http://www.bbc.co.uk/hungarian/index.rdf - Hungarian news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/sport/index.rdf - Hindi sports news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/index.rdf - Persian arts news
Comments are welcome at my blog
So, put one of them feeds in your aggregator and smoke it!
Note: The author of the email requested that I remove his name from this blog entry, which I have done.
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by D. Weinberger at November 19, 2004 03:08 PM
Comments
Hi
Thanks for the useful information re: the BBC 's RSS feeds. is there one for the French manguage service?
Thanks
Xavier
Posted by: Xavier Kreiss | December 15, 2004 08:22 PM
can you possible host the albanian language edition of bbc, or contact them to make everything rss .xml
instead of this damned .rdf
Posted by: Kel | February 26, 2005 06:56 PM
Please send the latest new about Iran in Persian Farsi to my Email address.
Best regards
mahboobn
Posted by: mahboob | May 27, 2006 04:13 AM
Heard an amazing programme about Kibera , the Nairobi home of about 700,000 people ,on world service recently.A woman reporter visiting the area at night, no street lights, kerosene lamps in the houses, voices, an impromptu cinema ,a mosque, and voices. You could feel the longing of the people for light and power.How is it to be done?
Posted by: Val Booker | November 4, 2006 07:17 AM
There is an excellent new website that may be of interest to many of you. It has thousands of old photos of the United Kingdom and the British Isles. See www.oldukphotos.com
Posted by: Phil Evans | May 25, 2007 03:53 PM