Using the RSS feed on the new LSDBi

For my money, RSS is the big new feature in the LSDBi revamp. Usually, dragging/clicking the RSS link or icon to your feed reader will enable a subscription; but not on the new LSDBi (at least for now--hint, hint).

Fortunately there's a workaround.

If you're using a Mac, do this:
1. Log into LSDBi and click Announcements on the far left side of the page.
2. Check the boxes for the divisions and topics of interest to you and click Save.
3. Click the link for the RSS feed.
4. On Safari for the Mac, a window will open with various options displayed on the right hand side. At the very bottom are links to Subscribe in Mail (which will add the feed to Mac OS X's email client--very convenient) or Add Bookmark (which gives you the ability to add the feed to Mail, Safari, or both).

Adding a feed

On the Dark Side, follow steps 1-3 above. In the window that appears, there is a "view feed properties" hyperlink on the right side of the feed window. That presents the address that you can paste into the RSS sign up screen for Outlook. 

Once you have the feed's URL <feed://web1.ncaa.org/LSDBi/exec/aRss>, you can also copy and paste it into an RSS news reader, such as NetNewsWire.

Things seem a little bumpy. For instance, the feed details aren't really showing up correctly in Mail--I'm getting just dates and no details without having to click a link to see them--perhaps because the feed is behind the NCAA's password wall. But we'll see how it goes. This is a good first step that can and will get better.

In fact, we've added the feed to this site in our sidebar at left.

Nov 6, 2008 4:41 PM
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