Allegheny College Launches RSS Feed for Dining Hall Menu
You’re reading it here first. Allegheny College has launched an RSS feed for their dining hall menu. From Mike Richwalsky earlier this afternoon via IM:
I’m proud to announce that Allegheny has launched our new dining hall menu system to the campus today. I’m not sure, but it might be the first college with RSS dining menus.
Dining hall personnel maintain the feed themselves through a web-based app–no knowledge of RSS or XML is required.
Do you know if they’re using this to maintain the content on their Web site in addition to the possible apps / features that people might create out it.
Comment by Tiffany — September 19, 2005 @ 4:19 pm
According to Mike, dining hall personnel maintain the content in a single location, and it’s published as a web page and an RSS feed.
Comment by Dan Karleen — September 19, 2005 @ 4:51 pm
[…] Aside from Katamari Damacy, it has been a pretty interesting week. We launched a new online menu page for the Allegheny College website that Mike had me speed code a week ago. Then we used an rss code template that Jesse wrote and applied it to the menu database. We didn’t really think of it being particularly interesting at the time, but apparently that’s not true. As Mike explained, this menu system has caught the interest of those like Dave Winer and Synicatopm for Higher Ed. […]
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