[LINK] The ABC updates their web site

[Stephen Edgar]

It is still a shame that the new website still does not contain an OPML file for all the Podcast feeds the ABC have, as at last count there are ~160 ABC podcast feeds.

I guess I will just go on continuing to maintain the OPML file I am updating for all the ABC Podcasts that I know of.

http://hosting.opml.org/netweb/blog/links/abc.podcasts.opml

You can see the OPML file in action via http://grazr.com window/widget at with the following URL:-

http://grazr.com/gzpanel.html?theme=sateen_black&view=3p&file=http://hosting.opml.org/netweb/blog/links/abc.podcasts.opml

If they dropped an OPML file on the http://www.abc.net.au/news/feeds/default.htm page it would be rather handy ;)


Regards,

Stephen Edgar
Netweb Interactive
stephen at netweb.com.au
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-----Original Message-----
From: link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Paul Bolger
Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:53 AM
To: link at anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: [LINK] The ABC updates their web site

They haven't changed the whole site, just the news section. Deciding
what to do with massive amounts of archived content is always a
headache for organisations like the ABC. You can see from the URLs
(1955245.htm for instance) that the CMS is nearing 2 million
documents, a far cry from http://www.abc.net.au/hotchips/ days.

If you want to keep up to date on the headlines why not use the RSS feeds?

And for the audio, do they offer mp3 downloads for the program you
want to hear?

On 19/06/07, Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au> wrote:
> I have bookmarked the ABC's top stories web site at:
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/topstories.htm
>
> At 12:02pm yesterday it stopped getting updated.
>
> Initially I thought I was getting a cached copy but whatever I did, I kept getting the same old page.
>
> Eventually I clicked on some of the other links on that page and discovered that the ABC has updated the whole site. This is explained at http://www.abc.net.au/news/help/tour.htm
>
> Unlike most (all?) of the other links, it seems that they have not replaced/reused the "Top Stories" link and so there now exists an old web page that will exist, frozen in time.
>
> Like the new Australian IT site, the ABC site seems much more cluttered with more choice but less useful (to me) information.
>
> I'm out of town at the moment and have set up one of my machines to record one of Radio National's program's streaming audio. I just hope they haven't changed the link.
>
> --
> Regards
> brd
>
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> Sydney Australia
> brd at iimetro.com.au
>
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