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  "title": "Internet TV: Where's the Feed?",
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  "html": "<p>Man, does <a href=\"http://www.thisspartanlife.com/\">This Spartan Life</a> ever need--</p>\n<ol>\n<li>An RSS feed with video enclosures.</li>\n<li>A web site that's not all-Flash.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Because without <a href=\"/tag/1\">#1</a>, I could at least scrape <a href=\"/tag/2\">#2</a> to build <a href=\"/tag/1\">#1</a>, so as to dump new episodes into my viewing queue automatically.  Manual discovery and download of online video are <em>so</em> last century—especially with the advent of the video-playing iPod.</p>\n<p>P.S.: I'd like video enclosure feeds for <a href=\"http://www.purepwnage.com/episodes.html\">Pure Pwnage</a>, <a href=\"http://digitallifetv.com/blogs/digitallifetv/default.aspx\">DigitalLifeTV</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.welcometothescene.com/\">The Scene</a> as well.  I may get motivated to scrape feeds for these, if I keep up with each of these.</p>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221085729\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://lroberson.livejournal.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=3719c90654b2372160ab0938b3c6d884&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://lroberson.livejournal.com\">Lee</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221085729\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-10-13T20:28:41\">2005-10-13T20:28:41</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Mmmm, Pure Pwnage good.</p>\n<p>This Spartan Life -- getting kinda tired of the Halo machinima.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221085730\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2377f34a68801b861c3e54e1301f0dce&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221085730\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-10-13T21:01:13\">2005-10-13T21:01:13</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>I think I'm still kind of fresh on the Halo stuff, because I never really bothered watching much Red vs Blue.  Also, it was before my Xbox got modded, since I watch all this stuff on the living room TV.  I should go back and check out RvB, come to think of it</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221085732\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://cpe000103c34069-cm014300001653.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com/weblogs/ben/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=871196de9b27ed994c30428eed59073c&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://cpe000103c34069-cm014300001653.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com/weblogs/ben/\">Ben</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221085732\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-10-17T08:52:04\">2005-10-17T08:52:04</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>I've built a screen-scraper of sorts for This Spartan Life. It's more than a little hackish right now, though it does work; it's designed to be called from cron. A bit of adaptation should suffice to make it spit out XML that can be piped into your newsreader; I'll get to that after I've fixed some of the more egregious oversights, like adding HTTP 304 recognition.</p>\n<p>I've e-mailed you a copy of version 0.2, in case your interest is piqued.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "Man, does [This Spartan Life][tsl] ever need--\r\n\r\n  1. An RSS feed with video enclosures.\r\n  2. A web site that's not all-Flash.\r\n\r\nBecause without #1, I could at least scrape #2 to build #1, so as to dump new episodes into my viewing queue automatically.  Manual discovery and download of online video are *so* last century—especially with the advent of the video-playing iPod.\r\n\r\nP.S.: I'd like video enclosure feeds for [Pure Pwnage][pp], [DigitalLifeTV][dlt], and [The Scene][ts] as well.  I may get motivated to scrape feeds for these, if I keep up with each of these.\r\n\r\n[ts]: http://www.welcometothescene.com/\r\n[pp]: http://www.purepwnage.com/episodes.html\r\n[dlt]: http://digitallifetv.com/blogs/digitallifetv/default.aspx\r\n[tsl]: http://www.thisspartanlife.com/\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221085729\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://lroberson.livejournal.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=3719c90654b2372160ab0938b3c6d884&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://lroberson.livejournal.com\">Lee</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221085729\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-10-13T20:28:41\">2005-10-13T20:28:41</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Mmmm, Pure Pwnage good.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This Spartan Life -- getting kinda tired of the Halo machinima.</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221085730\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2377f34a68801b861c3e54e1301f0dce&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221085730\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-10-13T21:01:13\">2005-10-13T21:01:13</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>I think I'm still kind of fresh on the Halo stuff, because I never really bothered watching much Red vs Blue.  Also, it was before my Xbox got modded, since I watch all this stuff on the living room TV.  I should go back and check out RvB, come to think of it</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221085732\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://cpe000103c34069-cm014300001653.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com/weblogs/ben/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=871196de9b27ed994c30428eed59073c&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://cpe000103c34069-cm014300001653.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com/weblogs/ben/\">Ben</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221085732\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-10-17T08:52:04\">2005-10-17T08:52:04</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>I've built a screen-scraper of sorts for This Spartan Life. It's more than a little hackish right now, though it does work; it's designed to be called from cron. A bit of adaptation should suffice to make it spit out XML that can be piped into your newsreader; I'll get to that after I've fixed some of the more egregious oversights, like adding HTTP 304 recognition.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>I've e-mailed you a copy of version 0.2, in case your interest is piqued.</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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