Why I think everything should have an RSS feed: because I can do really cool things with them. This page collects and collates everything I publish anywhere on the web, so long as that data ends up in an RSS feed at some point. So far I have My Y!360°, linkblog from del.icio.us, Flickr photos and comments on those photos, blog, and videos on YouTube. Best of all, the page has it’s own Atom feed (update: and RSS 2.0)! All made possible via Magpie + PHP. It’s not that hard to imagine using this same technique for something actually useful. Want to combine RSS feeds like Feedburner does, but including more than just Flickr and del.icio.us? It’s quite possible. You can see the source that makes it all run, but fair warning, it’s kind of a mess now with comments, and about as refined as it’s going to get.

Update 7/5: Dean Jackson published something somewhat related — if more complicated, with prettier output, and done up in with Feedparser and python instead of Magpie + PHP — over at the W3C. Mine has a lower barrier to entry, I feel, but then I already know how to use PHP and Magpie.