HowTo Add RSS Content ToYour Blog w Javascript

Alright,

I understand how tough it can be to keep your blog up and fresh. You could do much less work IF you got several other rss feed sources to flow through your own blog. Then, all you'd have to do is just assign css styles and the content posts keep your blog fresh and updated EVEN IF YOU never make another post again...

here is a perfect example of a site like that requires NO updating. The rss keeps the site always current:

http://www.frustratedcities.com

If you want to know how this is done, just view the source to the site. Everything is in the html. And I'll give you a short cut too: http://itde.vccs.edu/rss2js/build.php is the website you go to automatically make the javascripts that fill your page with content.

You'll notice that the javascript has a reference to an outside host. This is needed because since you are reusing some other website's content, it needs to get stripped and stored as fresh before you can use it... now for flickr.com pictures content...

more pics

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How To Get A Myspace Onlinenow Alert

Admit it. There's atleast one person on MYSPACE you don't know that you want to meet. You've sent a friend request, you've private messaged, and nothing - Ziltch! That's where ZNITCH becomes your Cyrano De Bergerac Hero.

http://znitch.com can be used as a MYSPACE ONLINE NOW alert system. The Tom was smart in making the "ONLINE NOW!" message a GIF image file. It makes it impossible to "spider" for the words. But ZNITCH reads the underlying html code. So, all you have to do is copy/paste in the user's profile page url you wanna stalk, umm i mean, track, and in the keyword field, type in "onlinenow.gif"

Done. You'll get a notice as soon as your MYSPACE "FRIEND" is online so you can chat with them directly. Now you have a robotic Myspace Watcher!

TIPS - Tricky Hacky Ways to Znitch

For Watching Myspace Profile Pages for Changes and ONLINENOW alerts
myspace watcher

Use Quotes.
if you want to find a phrase

DONT use COMMAS.
Every word you put into the keyword field is one ZNITCH.
If you want to ZNITCH multiple words or phrases from the same url, for now, you're gunna have ta just set up multiple ZNITCHES

CLICK the RSS Logo Button
Why? Well, do you ever GOOGLE the same word or phrase several times a day? You can let go now. ZNITCH will update the rss feed url FOR YOU everytime a new instance of your keyword appears on your favorite site. All you have to do is just take that url and drop it into your favorite reader like http://www.netvibes.com/ and voila! You've got perpetual search - called ZNITCHing!

Alert n Pull Readers Back, The API

How To Send Your Readers Blog Update Alerts

Put a Znitch Button On your site.

Sure, we at znitch will get traffic from you. BUT we will give it all and MORE back to you. You see, all you do is add the javascript code in a visible place on your site. Then, everytime a visitor clicks it, we set up email or txt sms alerts for your reader so that whenever YOU update YOUR site, with content they want, we go out and pullem back for you.

No More Email Campaigns... Just ZNITCHit!

RSS is Killing Bloggers

RSS is Killing Bloggers By Favoring Only High Volume Blogs.

Jason Calacanis of AOL and Engadget.com once stated that a secret of successful blogging is "fresh and frequent blog postings." So readers subscribe to only the most frequently updated and well known blogss RSS Feeds leaving for-the-love-of-journalism-bloggers "under the syndication radar." Simply due to low posting volume, the vast majority of key bloggers get little to no readership.

ZNITCH.com made it their mission to level the playing field and expose non-celebrity bloggers using what they call, "the opposite of RSS." RSS streams blog and xml content to a user's personal home page. SSR (Super Simple Reminders), makes content flooding unnecessary. Instead of being innundated with a high volume of personally irrelevant posts from a handful of your favorite blogs, SSR cherry picks content for you to read from an infinite number of blogs.

Larger blogs may not embrace the technology simply because ZNITCH.com may actually reduce recurring traffic. Readers of larger blogs visit several times a day in hopes of occasionally finding relevant and engaging content. This recurring visit effect is what drives advertising dollars for larger blogs.

ZNITCH would alert the user to return to a blog or website if and only if new content matching their search criteria was posted - eliminating casual browsing altogether. But for the smaller blog, a blog post alert system would do precisely the opposite - the ZNITCH effect would increase traffic. via http://znitch.com

Opposite of RSS, Underdog Bloggers Level Playing Field

Part-time Underdog Bloggers Level Playing Field Using ZNITCH.com, the Opposite of RSS

World famous bloggers Om Malik, Matt Cutts, Cory Doctorow, Kevin Rose and Jason Calacanis have dominated blogging in a few short months. They leave thousands of industry insiders' blogs with valuable "ear to the ground" perspectives and news cloaked. The founders of ZNITCH.com made it their mission to level the playing field and expose non-celebrity bloggers using what they call, "the opposite of RSS."

(PRWEB) October 18, 2006 -- Jason Calacanis of AOL and Engadget.com once stated that a secret of successful blogging is "fresh and frequent blog postings." However, most potentially valuable blog posts come from industry insiders who blog outside of their full time job schedule making their blogs fresh yet infrequent. So readers subscribe to only the most frequently updated RSS Feeds leaving for-the-love-of-journalism-bloggers "under the syndication radar."

World famous bloggers Om Malik, Matt Cutts, Cory Doctorow, Kevin Rose and Jason Calacanis have successfully dominated blogging in a few short months. They leave thousands of industry insiders' blogs with valuable "ear to the ground" perspectives and news in the dark. The founders of ZNITCH.com made it their mission to level the playing field and expose non-celebrity bloggers using what they call, "the opposite of RSS."

Since bloggers offering less than one post an hour often cannot hold the attention of their fast paced internet audience, http://ZNITCH.com offers their readers an email and sms text message update alert / reminder system.

The ZNITCH.com team calls this technology the "opposite of RSS" or SSR (Super Simple Reminders) because RSS pushes every single new blog post from one source via a feed reader to the user. Conversely, ZNITCH selectively only sends a blog post from a multitude of webpages to the user only when it matches their search criteria. In other words, only blog posts and webpages that match a predefined search phrase are sent to the user.

Users simply enter a few keywords defining their interest, the webpage address they want to monitor, and finally their email or sms address for the alerts. When a new post matches their interest, they are alerted about the site and the search result.

ZNITCH.com can be a crucial marketing tool for small blogs because they are less likely to get recurring traffic than large blogs. ZNITCH auto alerts their current readership whenever a new post they are interested in is published so they stay fresh in the minds of their market.

Larger blogs may not embrace the technology simply because ZNITCH.com may actually reduce recurring traffic. Readers of larger blogs visit several times a day in hopes of occasionally finding relevant and engaging content. Each visit is another advertiser click-through opportunity for the larger blogs. And ZNITCH would only alert the user to return to a blog or website if and only if new content matching their search criteria was posted - eliminating casual browsing altogether.

The ZNITCH.com programmers invite bloggers to link to the update alert system at http://www.znitch.com often.

NOTES:
Om Malik, Matt Cutts, Cory Doctorow, Kevin Rose and Jason Calacanis are the respected principals of the following blogs: Gigaom, Google, BoingBoing, Digg, and Engadget, respectively.

Znitch Goes Live - Prequel

hi. Here's the inside story. It started with France. Not the country, the Girl. We had sushi and sake randomly one night. But not necessarily in that order. Come to find out, she works about a wet paper napkins' throw away from my apartment. But she lives 50 traffic minutes away.

So we started talking about her moving here. Solana Beach, CA. It's the next city up on the Pacific Coast Highway from Del Mar, If you're old time pony fans.

The next day, I put on my knight in shining armor hat and went to craigslist to look for a place for my sushi partner (sake, actually). You can guess the rest. New posts were being added faster than I could read them.

The next day, I met Craig's former boss. Oddly. Wierd. Then he tells me that it'd be great to know WHEN your MYSPACE buddy is online to catch him or her. I talked to my DIGG buddies and they tell me It'd be cool to know when your username hits the front page. Next, a web marketing guy tells me it'd be nice to know when his clients' site appears in Google Page 1.

So, Me, a Buddy, and Espressos Built http://www.znitch.com

I guess i was to lazy to be France's Apartment Knight in Shining Armor =)

PS... Who ever submits this story and gets it to the top of DIGG or on Slashdot becomes a fully vested partner at 1% share (thats a ton o cash at 1.65billion!)... Have fun!