I might as well post here for future reference, since I never seemed to notice this thread before and it has a little too much bullshit for my taste.
RSS publishing? Extremely easy to do. The current RSS script for the site took me maybe 5 or 6 minutes to write, and that was mostly the template code. I mean seriously, it's just another format to push content into. It doesn't even require any programming skill, and the most challenging part might be tweaking some SQL statement for performance reasons.
Compared to the computer science theory I study in my free time, it's like writing "Hello, World!" Any monkey with some examples of RSS and a basic understanding of SQL and any programming language could write an RSS syndication script or add it as a feature to any existing script. Depending on the template system used (or not used), one could even do it without any real programming, just by adding a new template for an existing script.
Using RSS feeds isn't much harder either, assuming you know how to look up some documentation and have an XML parsing library installed with your favorite language. The only issue with parsing RSS would be handling all of the different formats, but they're fairly semantic and it's not too hard to find online descriptions of each format, making it more time consuming than difficult.
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