get gib news on your websites - its free now!
gibs...@ono.com
well if anyone has a website why not include gibraltar news on it...
you have choices and they are free...
1. use the rss feeds there is one at
http://www.gibfocus.gi/rss/rss.xml
and another one at
http://www.gibnews.net/rss/gibnews.xml
or even better just use this code. all you have to do is cut and paste
it into your pages:-
<script language="JavaScript"
src="http://convert.rss-to-javascript.com/?chan=1&simple_chan=1&desc=1&date=1&num=14&font=Arial&font_size=11&fgcolor=003366&src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gibfocus.gi%2Frss%2Frss.xml&target=blank">
</script><noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript. <a
title='RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS to JavaScript Converter'
href=http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/?p=151,381&chan=1&simple_chan=1&desc=1&date=1&num=14&font=Arial&font_size=11&fgcolor=003366&src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gibfocus.gi%2Frss%2Frss.xml&target=blank&as_html=1>Click
to read the latest news</a>.</noscript>
<a href=http://www.rss-to-javascript.com target=_blank
title='RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS to JavaScript Converter'><img
src=http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/images/rss-to-jss-small.gif
alt='RSS to JavaScript' border=0></a>
and yes Jim this is an attempt at blantantly increasing marketing, but
note i have not forgotten you
and soon yo can add gib news videos and audio too, and guess who is
going to provide it?
Jim Watt
>and yes Jim this is an attempt at blantantly increasing marketing, but
>note i have not forgotten you
Why thank you :)
RSS feeds are a lot easier to use than page scraping.
I have a better example of one on
>and soon yo can add gib news videos and audio too, and guess who is
>going to provide it?
Ah but can you do it live 24x7 like
http://www.gbc.gi
--
Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com
gibralta...@gmail.com
provides complete RSS Feed management solutions to publishers and
webmasters.
Jim Watt
>I use RapidFeeds on my website, its an online web based service, which
>provides complete RSS Feed management solutions to publishers and
>webmasters.
I wrote my own, think I'll add a javascript version tonight.
gibs...@ono.com
maybe in ten years time when i am a millionaire, after all internet
news services do not yet get government funding as a public service,
though maybe its time this changed, not just in gibraltar but
worldwide.
then yes indeed i would provide a 24/7 service, and dare i say it might
actually be good too. not bad what we are doing for the low budgets we
have to do it with.
we do have a 90secs news summary... and it sounds good.. plus our
weekly audio interviews are pretty good... good enough to hit the
headlines most of the time because of our style of interviewing.
so no i cannot do the 24/7, but as i said i am not a public service,
nor a millionaire with 36 staff members (not complaining i like gbc and
their staff i think they get too much stick, even from me at times, i
would up their budgets even more) but stop their adverts.. people like
us at gibfocus find it unfair to compete against publicly funded
services offering low cost advertising avenues, when they do not have
to worry about their overheads, since most are covered by govt budgets
every year.
but we shall be offering more audio visual services, enough to keep
everyone interested. Its just a matter of time and patience.
oh by the way might have taken me time to learn but now the rss feeds
are automated (god php learning curve is not easy) but in five months i
have done pretty well for someone who didnt know it before...
and in one night done brilliantly by tomorrow there will be six new
feeds to choose from, all with different content.
inspiration of course is Jim....
see you at next event....
Jim Watt
>and in one night done brilliantly by tomorrow there will be six new
>feeds to choose from, all with different content.
>
>inspiration of course is Jim....
>
>see you at next event....
Competition is good for everyone I say;
And as promised, Gibnews.net has a javascript news feed available
which can be integrated into existing web pages and does not use
any external resources.
The suggestion that it was reverse engineered from the BBC news
one would be met with plausable deniability.
get it here: http://www.gibnews.net/js.htm
I wonder if the next event will go with a bang?
Cooldud
I am all the time checking out things and at times even testing them
out in order to evaluate.
I've been looking up this RSS thing and found so many to tell. Here
one I did like looking into its the
RSS2html (6.5 KB) is a PHP script that can convert RSS feeds to HTML.
The rss2html.php script allows webmasters to display RSS feeds on their
website. I found this website
http://www.sitepronews.com/internetapps.html that should be look at, it
has lots of interesting things (I N T E R N E T A P P L I C A T I
O N S )
For a 24/7 broadcast radio feed or TV, not a lost of cash is needed if
you thinking of broadcasting, all that is needed is Windows Media
Encoder or something like Shoutcast & Icecast, there are so many things
out and about. Windows Media Encoder can broadcast for free, a
alternative solution is take a look @;
http://www.streamsolutions.co.uk/index.php
Ken
"Jim Watt" <jim...@aol.no_way> wrote in message
news:d1u1a21ktimoao5jq...@4ax.com...
YOU might be able to, but I can't. I click the link and after an
interminable interval trying to locate media WMP tells me it can't be found.
K
Jim Watt
wrote:
>For a 24/7 broadcast radio feed or TV, not a lost of cash is needed if
>you thinking of broadcasting, all that is needed is Windows Media
>Encoder or something like Shoutcast & Icecast, there are so many things
>out and about. Windows Media Encoder can broadcast for free, a
>alternative solution is take a look @;
>http://www.streamsolutions.co.uk/index.php
Windows media encoder is fine but you need a server
to make it work. this really needs to be on a second
machine and you also need lots of connectivity and
ADSL here only gives you 256Kb out maximum.
The encoder also crashed from time to time.
Running TV increases the bandwith dramatically.
gibs...@ono.com
true. yes with windows media or other software we could have a 24/7
broadcast, but the cost is still the same.
someone has to pay for the cameras for the recorders, and most
importantly for the people behind that equipment.
i could have the best computers best servers, best cameras, best
recorders best everything but unless i have the one really important
thing the people you have nothing.
and believe you me it is not a 9-5 job. if you are a reporter or a
presenter you work when everyone is resting, and you work when everyone
is working, why because when you rest we are providing you with the
stories, and when you are working we are covering the stories, as long
as someone is awake there is work to be done, as long as someone is
watching or listening you are working. and no human can do a 24/7 by
themselves.
we are a team at gibfocus, two of us, and we work 18 hour days each,
not added up together.
because it is our business we put in this hours with total committment
and will to do the best, but when you employ people you cant expect the
same dedication, no matter how dedicated they are,. the business is not
theirs and they have lives. so for every one of us we need two people,
that makes it four, and for every person you need a cover, that is
eight, and for every weekend you need teh same number cause those same
people just cant work seven day weeks all year around all their lives,
it is a recipe for disaster, so now we are talking sixteen, and this is
just to get a decent product out 24/7.
it is easy to watch the media, tv, radio newspapers etc and think they
do nothing, but the fact is there is so much being done behind the
scenes when the product is good. the reason it isnt all the time (good
that is) is simply because none of us are big enough, and i doubt we
will ever be at least in the short term.
so yes indeed you need big dosh just to do a 24/7 broadcast even on the
internet, anyone who tells me otherwise is kidding themselves, and they
can try, they will last the three months, maybe six, maybe even a year,
but no longer, not unless they are slave drivers turning over staff
every month, and by the time two years have gone by if you do that
there will not be anyone willing to work for you so you will be in the
same position as i am saying... an impossible position to maintain.
a good reporter should get a min standard wage at least, and that is
pretty higher than the average. (some of us work at it because we
believe in it not for the wages, hoping that we will get them one day
and have the million which will set up the 24/7) sorry but when i see
comments such it is easy to do it on the internet what i see is
comments by those who do not understand the reality of what happens
behidn the scenes, yes it is easy to create a website and place several
articles everyday... one two three... but is that a news service? it is
easy to do an automated site, with not much thought, but when you have
human interaction, human presence, presenting, production, street work
etc, it is not easy, at least not 24/7, even windows media cannot do
the job for us... what goes through it is hours of work and sweat.
sorry for what seems a lecture
Cooldud
on the
internet, but the first thing one should work out is the demand for
internet 24/7 broadcast, resources, facilities, or action in order to
function or succeed needs to be look into as will. Plus haven a user
friendly set up is a must. Many in the community find it a lot easier
and without requiring effort to sit on their comfortable armchair with
a flat screen to see the TV. The appropriate equipment and resource is
out and about a need for a server to make it work, cameras for the
recorders, and most importantly for the people behind that equipment is
all out their, But answer the easy questions first! Is their demand
for internet 24/7 broadcast?
gibs...@ono.com
the same question was asked about the television. some people, and it
was a big load of some people, said that moving images on a small box
in a living room would not take off. why because they considered the
theatre, and cinema to be the thing.
well like those who believed on tv i believe on internet broadcasting.
why because we have tvs, we have satelitte, we have pda, ipods,
laptops, grs system you name it.. everyone of them picks up the
internet, and allows its broadcast. so why not be able to transmit into
those from the net instead.
plus how many of us actually like the interactive aspects of tv and
internet. we sometimes like more multimedia functions and that is what
the internet offers.
so yes it is not is there a market now, it is whether you can bring the
market to become a demand sooner, rather later.
but yes there is a need for 24/7 and there are many things that
indicate that 24/7 is necessary even for gibraltar.