A Load of Cobblers

Social software services and open source tools have transformed us into a load of cobblers.

Here's where I share the tools I use and how I cobble them together.

-- Steph

Dapper: make RSS feeds from listing pages

It’s frustrating to find a site you really want to follow but which doesn’t publish its listing of news etc as an RSS feed. That’s a problem Dapper.net is really good at solving. Sign up online for free, give it one or more web page URLs, and identify which repeating bits of the page are the title, date, and description fields you want in your RSS. It’s all point and click stuff, and you can publish the resulting feed in all kinds of formats, and with a friendly URL.

So for example this:

http://www.civilservicenetwork.com/index.php?id=152

becomes:

http://www.dapper.net/services/whitehallwestminsterworld

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