Finding new and interesting RSS feeds is a problem, and so is advertising your own feed. I explored a few websites that aggregate feeds, and wasn't too satisfied with the experience.
Recently I found an article on Registering and Discovering RSS feeds in UDDI. Well I went and did just that at the IBM UBR node- here is my discover URL. I wrote up a small java program to browse the UDDI registry looking for RSS feeds, and didn't find a whole lot. The ones I did find were the really good ones though- like Don Box's Spoutlet, Karsten Januszewski's UDDI Weblog, Tim Ewald's Ideas about XML and Web Services ... and offcourse now, your's truly!
My java program for searching RSS feeds is here, and the setup instructions are here.
The RSS feeds I found (as on May 12, 2004) are listed below- many of them being weblogs of Microsoft folks.
| Title | URL |
| Don Box's Spoutlet | RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0 |
| Drewby.net | RSS 0.9 |
| Jazz 88 News at KSDS-FM.org | RSS 0.9 |
| Karsten Januszewski's UDDI Web Log | RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0 |
| Kirby T @thecave.com | RSS 0.9, |
| Tim Ewald's Ideas about XML and Web Services | RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0 |
| Vivek Chopra's weblog on SOA and Web services | RSS 1.0 |
| Christian Weyer: Web Services & .NET | RSS 2.0 |
| Clemens Vasters: Enterprise Development & Alien Abductions | RSS 2.0 |
| Laurie Thompson-Earls | RSS 2.0 |
| Link to MSDN Just Published | RSS 2.0 |
| Matevz Gacnik's Web Log | RSS 2.0 |
| Michael Earls | RSS 2.0 |
Not a whole lot of feeds as you can see. Check out Syndic8 if you want more RSS feeds- 100,772 at last count (May 12, 2004)!
[Update 10:30 PM, May 12 2004] I found this great resource on RSS which has a lot of information on registering and discovering RSS feeds too.
Posted by vivek at May 12, 2004 03:58 PM | TrackBackI don't think registering services like javablogs, leed to good results.
Much better if each blogger has a link to their OPML file, and that is autodiscovered and used.
Posted by: Yuri Schimke at May 13, 2004 12:25 PM