Ben Hammersley
http://twitter.com/benhammersley
London, England
Journalist
Ben Hammersley is a British internet technologist, journalist, and broadcaster, currently based in London, England. He is Editor at Large of Conde Nast's
Wired UK magazine, and Principal of
Dangerous Precedent . He is also a freelance reporter for the BBC, and a consultant to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the office of the Prime Minister.
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Making Your RSS Feed Look Pretty in a Browser Publish Date: Jul. 1, 2005
As more and more non-techie websites offer syndication feeds, a growing
number of non-technical readers are clicking on the links and filling their
screens with confusing XML. But syndication content doesn't have to look like geeky markup or malformed
text in your readers' browsers. You can make it look quite pretty, and give clues to what the feed is actually for. Ben Hammersley, author of Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom , shows you how.
Making Feature-Rich, Movable Type RSS Files Publish Date: Feb. 28, 2003
RSS feeds, especially RSS 1.0 ones, are made much more valuable with
every extra piece of information you can put inside. Ben Hammersley, author of Content Syndication with RSS , walks through how to create a feed that contains all of the data you can possibly pull out of a standard Movable Type installation.
