Want headlines on your own website or blog? Scroll down.

This page will show you in a nutshell what RSS is and how to read it (scroll down),
and how you can put Wilson's Blogmanac, Yellow Pages, etc headlines on your site.

News :: XML :: RSS :: Feeds :: Resources :: Links (popup)

How to use the Wilson's Blogmanac feed (it's free)

And it's easier than you might think to get folklore, news, customs, humour, peace ideas ... Almanac material and the pick of the 200+ global newsfeeds at Daily Planet News.

Even though it says XML, the little orange logo means that we have an 'RSS feed' that lets you have our headlines (RSS is a form of XML; Atom and RDF are others). First you'll need to download a RSS reader from the Internet. Many free readers exist and can be downloaded for use. Googling for RSS Readers can help locate one (I really love SharpReader, which reads RSS and also Atom, a similar system to RSS).

Once you have a reader, you can subscribe to the Wilson's Blogmanac feed by adding our URL http://wilsonsalmanac.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default to your reader (it will show you how). Whenever new content is added to the Blogmanac, your news reader will let you know and will give you the link.

Or try this easier way: Add our headlines to your My Yahoo!
Click the thumbnail pic at left to see how the free Blogmanac headlines will look on your page
My Yahoo! is an excellent 'home page' that you can customize to your own needs, offering news, weather, cartoons, calendar etc – I use it myself every day and it's the best I've seen. With My Yahoo! you can now also have the latest headlines from Wilson's Blogmanac at your fingertips. You can add it or remove it as often as you like. 

All you need do is click the My Yahoo! button to add our feed
(there are other applications if you prefer, eg My MSN etc):

Options to read our feed

 
 R|Mail



 




 
 
 
  Feed buttons
Sub to any of our ezines

You'll get headlines like these on your My Yahoo!

(This is our current feed, auto-updating 24/7)

How to put Blogmanac headlines on your own website

Go to FeedDigest and generate a feed code, pasting in the URL of our RSS feed ...

http://wilsonsalmanac.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

http://del.icio.us/rss/almanac Combined feed of our blogs (See below) including Blogmanac (feed via http://del.icio.us/almanac) 

You might also be interested in: http://yellowpages.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default for Yellow Pages  http://ongobongo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default for Ongo Bongo! Want lots more? See my RSS feeds collection (my OPML)

If you would prefer the headlines from the free daily ezine Wilson's Almanac, then use http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/WilsonsAlmanac/rss instead. Again, you can change the width to suit. 

  Instructions at http://www.feeddigest.com/

 

http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/include/ and http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/ (which provides the customizable scroller below – which unfortunately sometimes shows and sometimes doesn't) are similar resources to make a javascript for your site from our feeds, but at time of writing I'm very happy with Feed Digest. (Of course, it's fine if you just want to rip them from the Source of this page.)

Stop press

Here's another method to put the Blogmanac on your site. It's very straightforward.
Click the button

 

Helpful beginners' articles and resources

Start with What is RSS and how do you use it?    RSS at Wikipedia

How to speed-read the Net (I think this is the best article to start with)    

News :: XML :: RSS :: Feeds :: Resources :: Links (popup)

Feed2Js (Another feed to javascript service)

Google Directory on RSS    RSS Weblog

RSS Compendium    Feed readers    More feed readers    More

I read my fave RSS feeds with SharpReader and find it very good.

feedfinder.feedster.com (love it)    If you want my OPML file and list of RSS feeds I use, feel free

List of feed aggregators   Comparison of feed aggegators

Want world or local or themed news on your feed reader?

Google News has an RSS link in the left-hand column of its home page and every search result. If you want news on, for example, southern+africa famine, type that in and then grab the RSS feed which is this. Yahoo! News does a similar thing, with the RSS feed at the lower right-hand sidebar.