Portable rivers

Your river to go.

Now you can take your river with you to read on a mobile device like a Blackberry, Treo or web-enabled cell phone. To do so, enable the feature below, and choose a directory to save your river in. If you accept the default, it will automatically stream to the public server, where you can access it from your mobile device.

If you want to create a river of the BBC, the Economist and Business Week, no problem. It's also a corporate resource, keep your sales organization armed with the latest market intelligence.

Also, with a small amount of programming you can do as many portable rivers as you like.

How To

1. Choose Get Latest Code from the NewsRiver menu in the OPML Editor.

2. Choose Preferences from the NewsRiver menu. Navigate to the Portable river panel.

3. Enable the feature and change the folder it saves to.

4. Wait for the hourly scan or choose Do Scan Now from the NewsRiver menu.

5. Chose Open Log Outline from the NewsRiver menu and double-click on the main portableRiver index file. Screen shot.

6. You may want to bookmark this file. It will be automatically updated every time NewsRiver does a scan.

Example

Here's the portable river published by my desktop computer, every night at 1AM.

Programming

For people who are familiar with the OPML Editor's scripting environment, you can add as many rivers as you like, by adding pages to the static website that is rebuilt after every scan. The website is located in aggregatordata.root at aggregatorData.newsRiver.portableRivers.site. Here's a code example that shows how to select only stories that come from the New York Times. (This code is used in generating NYTimesRiver.com.)

# Posted by Dave Winer on 8/27/06; 12:04:43 PM - --