LinkTV [1], a channel on DISH and DirecTV satellite networks, makes its

show Mosaic [2] available daily via RSS [3].  The video files are

256kbps or 56kbps mpeg4 and are hosted by archive.org.  The show is a

half hour of translations of TV airing from a variety of Middle Eastern

TV news channels.  Its quite good offering a very different perspective

on events there than you get from US TV news, of course a healthly

amount of media literacy is required.  Clips vary from Israeli state run

Arabic broadcasts, to a Hezbollah controlled station, to more secular,

Westernized broadcasters from the United Arab Emirates.



I believe its the only RSS feed available with links to video of a daily

show that is broadcast.  It does *not* use the enclosure tag to make the

video files available, instead the link it provides popups a browser

window which plays the file inline with the QT plugin.



1 http://linktv.org/

2 http://www.linktv.org/mosaic/

3 http://www.linktv.org/cgi/database/mosaic_rss.xml



alan



http://demandmedia.net/

Collaborative Video Blog

So just make it RSS 3.0 :)



On May 20, 2004, at 4:02 PM, W. Frederick Zimmerman, Tech Fun Books

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> Google program manager in good interview with Steve Gillmor of E-week:

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> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1595786,00.asp

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> as a generic term internally because for a lot of people, it's exactly

> what you said: That's what you hear about. And it often gets distorted

> into RSS versus ATOM when RSS itself isn't one thing, it's three or

> four different things, depending on how you slice it.

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>  I think it was Dave Winer who said that he thinks ATOM will just be

> considered a flavor of RSS. I thought that was astute because as far

> as familiarity, people have certainly heard the term "RSS" more. I

> don't think the name RSS 2.0 versus ATOM versus 1.0, which are

> completely different animals, is really worthwhile for the vast

> majority of people to understand what it is, especially when most feed

> readers will support all of them.

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