Oct 12, 2008 4
RSS feeds make your updates portable
If you’ve been checking ReportingOn frequently, or keeping up as I cross off items on my to-do list, you’ll notice that I spent some time today playing with Django’s absolutely awesome syndication framework.
So, there’s now an RSS feed for all the latest updates (which is neat right now, but will be useless to you as the traffic scales upward later on). That was easy.
More interesting, if you’re using the site or trying to figure out how to share your updates there with your Twitter followers or your blog readers or anyone else: A feed just for you, of just your updates.
While I might not be interested in subscribing to the RSS feeds of individual users, individual users certainly might be interested in taking their feeds and displaying their updates in the sidebar of the blog, or routing them through Twitterfeed, or posting them to Friendfeed, or building themselves little widgets if they please.
Sounds good to me. If you do something cool with your updates feed, let us know!