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PlanetMath RSS Feeds |
We are pleased to announce PlanetMath RSS feeds. These are XML pages which provide a linear stream of various subsets of PlanetMath activity. You can use them with RSS aggregators (such as one of the free ones listed below) to create a personalized, centralized information page that includes PlanetMath updates.
The following specific RSS feeds are available:
Newly-added encyclopedia entries.
Recently-revised encyclopedia entries—not all the action is in from-scratch entries, by far!
Latest message posts (anything that shows up on the main screen marquee; for both public forums or entry, correction, or request discussions).
All activity—new entries, revised entries, message posts. Each item is has a title prefixed with a type indicator, either "(new)", "(rev)", or "(msg)", respectively. A great way to keep generally up-to-date.
Activity on the Planetmath Wiki (AsteroidMeta). This is where much of the "meta" discussion and planning for PlanetMath and the nonprofit org takes place. Note: this feed uses the RDF version of RSS.
A general-discussion web/email listserv for PlanetMath "meta" discussion. Messages here are sure to be seen by the board. The URL given here isn't itself a feed, but it has an index to various RSS/Atom feed options.
Coming soon - Probably a feed to something like an "entry of the day". This will be fun to use as something one can learn on a daily basis, just to broaden your mathematical horizons and stay sharp. Also, it will help to draw attention to entries in the collection in an unbiased fashion, so that they might be improved.
Aggregators bring together many RSS (also Atom) feeds into a single interface (this is pretty much the entire point of RSS). However, the aggregator can be either client-side (desktop) or server-side (web-based). Web-based is nice because of the instant-gratification (no installation), nothing to maintain, and no platform incompatibility issues. The desktop aggregators are more sophisticated and don't incur a network delay every time you display them.
Here are some free web-based aggregators we know of, to get you started:
If you want a client-side reader, just do a typical web search for "rss aggregator". We guarantee you'll find something. Well, maybe not guarantee, but we're pretty sure you will.
