ASU Multi-Feed Generator (and it WORKS!)

I have made several improvements to the RSS Feed Generator so I've decided to give it a grandiose name: the ASU Multi-Feed Generator!

Now, you can mix-n-match any number of categories and sub-categories of new materials to make your own personal new books RSS feed!

In addition, you can add the feeds for New ASU Browsing, New ASU DVDs, and the feed for this site in any combination you wish.

Of course, if you go supercrazy I can't imagine the resulting feed will be too fun to read, but I'll let you work that out.

RSS feeds again

After lots of fiddling about, I have managed to get the RSS feed to validate. This solved the Firefox Live Bookmarks problem. I have also tested it with Internet Explorer's RSS functionality and it works.

The only problem remains is My Yahoo! If they don't want a feed that's correct in every way, what do they want?

RSS Feed glitch

Ken has pointed out to me that the RSS thingy produces a URL that will not work in the My Yahoo! feed reader. It also does not currently work with Mozilla Firefox's Live Bookmarks functionality.

It does work with My Google and Bloglines, and I am working quickly to fix it for the others. Let me know if the feed does not work with your favorite RSS aggregator and I'll see what I can do.

RSS Feeds for New Materials by Subject

The next step in my quest to have a zillion RSS feeds at your fingertips is now fit to be seen. If you go to http://www.library.appstate.edu/newbooks/rssfeeds.html you can now create your own RSS feed for the New Materials by Subject lists that are currently located at http://www.library.appstate.edu/newbooks.

This is not a replacement for those lists, just a little something extra for those of us addicted to RSS.

Please let me know if there are any suggestions for improvements, corrections, deletions, etc.

I am already trying to figure out how to expand the number of categories and subcategories you can choose from the current limit of "one of each" to "as many as you want."

Enjoy!

New books RSS Feed

To update the RSS feed project, I have the feeds working for individual subjects or categories. That means you can get your own new books RSS feed for, say, statistics, or for all of Business & Economics, just like on the current New Books page. You can set up as many feeds as you like, but need to do each one individually.

I am working (with much assistance from Tom) on making it possible to create one feed with several subjects, but it's not working quite yet. When I get that operational, I will create a web page where you can go and select the subjects you wish and the page will generate a URL for you to put into a feed reader.

More news as events warrant!