[jonah] channels.php changes

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Charles Kaucher <kaucher@cgki.com>:

> This doesnot work and I have not been able to find any reference to it.
> Perhaps comment out?  Anyone familar with News is Free?
>
> 'googletop10' => array(
>           'name' => 'Google Zeitgeist - Top 10 Gaining Queries',
>           'url'  => 'http://feed.snewp.com/google.com/topgaining.rss'),

Dunno about that, but this is what it's supposed to be referring to:
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

> This is the corrected version.  Need to update the CVS.  I added an 's'
> to the file name feature.rdf to read features.rdf
>     'slashdotfeatures' => array(
>           'name' => 'Slashdot Features',
>           'url'  => 'http://slashdot.org/features.rdf'),

Got in CVS, thanks.

> This appears to tbe the new URL for this channel.
> Changed to http://www.teoti.net/geeknews/backend.php
> from
> http://geeknews.net/backend.php
>       'geeknews' => array(
>           'name' => 'Geeknews',
>           'url'  => 'http://www.teoti.net/geeknews/backend.php'),

Changed...

> I as unable to find any update for this link.  IT is not working. Delete?
>       'stratfor' => array(
>           'name' => 'Stratfor',
>           'url'  =>
> 'http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/34/2534.xml',
>           'img'  => 'newsisfree.gif'),

Seems to be gone; removed.

> These domains seems to be no longer in use.
>       'dnspolicy' => array(
>           'name' => 'dnspolicy',
>           'url'  => 'http://www.dnspolicy.com/backend/dnspolicy.rdf'),
> 
>       'linuxpower' => array(
>           'name' => 'linuxpower.org',
>           'url'  => 'http://linuxpower.org/linuxpower.rdf'),
> 
>      'windowscepower' => array(
>           'name' => 'Windows CE Power Magazine',
>           'url'  =>
> 'http://www.windowscepower.com/shares/userland-rss/channeldata.xml',
>           'img'  => 'WindowsCEPowerRSSLogo.gif'),

Confirmed and deleted.

> Gimpnews is no longer provided however there are some channels at
> newsisfree.com but are not exact replacemenmts. Delete.
>      'gimpnews' => array(
>           'name' => 'GIMP News',
>           'url'  => 'http://www.xach.com/gimp/news/channel.rdf')

Confirmed and deleted.

> The server was repurposed?  Delete.
>       'segfault' => array(
>           'name' => 'Segfault.org',
>           'url'  => 'http://segfault.org/stories.xml',
>           'img'  => 'segvnowsjr.gif'),

Huh, yup. Deleted.

> Here are some additions;
> 
>       'mqotd' => array(
>           'name' => 'Motivational Quote of the Day',
>           'url'  => 'http://www.quotationspage.com/data/mqotd.rss'),
> 
>       'wotd' => array(
>           'name' => 'Word of the Day',
>           'url'  =>
> 'http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/wotd.rss'),

Both added, thanks.

> There is also a list of Rss files at
> http://nautilus.eazel.com/rss/
> 
> It would seem that it could be used as a way to provide users a way to
> add the channels automatigically. :>)
> 
> www.newsisfree.com
> http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/servicelist.rss'
> 
> Perhaps a reference in the docs should be made to these.

I've added them to docs/INSTALL for now; if anyone wants to come up with an
automagical browser, that'd be great!

Thanks!

-chuck

--
Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
"People ask me all the time what it will be like living without otters."
 - Google, thanks to Harpers