You know they’re mainstream when Donald Trump has blog a in the top links list at bloglines.com
(#13).

RSS on the other hand - while available with almost all blog software, is not mainstream even within the blogging community. A study by the Neilson Group shows that out of 1000 members of their research panel who are blog readers; 66% of the blog readers have never heard of RSS, and only 11% of the blog readers use it.

link - O’Reilly Radar

I am a fan of movie trailers. That sounds a little odd to some people, but I really enjoy the anticipation I get from watching a good trailer. One of my favorite sites to check out trailers is apple trailers. They have a good, up to date selection of trailers all viewable in quicktime. The downside is that they don’t have an RSS feed. So I made one.

I built a screen scraper that parses the site and looks for all of their latest releases and outputs it into rss, then uploads it to polymercode.com. The feed is very much in Beta, so don’t be surprised if it isn’t readable by your RSS reader. Also - I am going to schedule the reader to scrape the trailers web site only a couple times a day - so don’t be surprised if the feed it slightly out of date with what is actually on the site.

I would appreciate your comments, and any errors you find. I’m going to release the source code for the application once it’s stablized and production ready - so keep checking back if you’re interested.

Apple - Movie Trailers RSS 2.0 Feed

This site [ rthq.com ] has some really cool links - too bad it doesn’t have an rss feed. After setting up Sage with all the feeds I like I can go through 150 sites in 1/2 hour.

That reminds me - I have to seriously update my right hand copy. Stay tuned, there’s going to be some serious changes soon.

I suspect that other power users surf vicariously through rss feeds to get their fix. Interesting, I wonder if Jacob is doing any research on RSS or the impact of low-literacy users?

I may only regularly visit sites without a feed once or twice a week. Even sites that I used to go to multiple times a day.

Newsmonkey - a decent flash based rss aggregator.