For the web hackers out there

I was poking through my list of RSS Feeds the other day, and stumbled upon something new (to me). I have the House Of Blues in Cleveland's event list there. Boy, I wish the other venues in town would put together a similar service, because scanning web pages for the info (vs. RSS) is a pain (if you want to do it, tho, here are the ones I often check Beachland, Grog, Odeon, Agora).

Anyway, the RSS feed had a little link for each event: "Add to my calendar". Well, I was curious and clicked, and boom! I use Outlook (2000? 2003?), so I can't vouch for other MS or non-MS apps, but Outlook popped right up with the event info in there, and I could set a reminder for how long before the show I wanted to get a pop-up. Nice! Well, I explored some more, and this article seems pretty definitive, if anyone out there is looking to publish event info.

I think that along with podcasting this really shows the power of RSS feeds. Not too useful on their own, but with their structure it's easy to combine feed technology with other programs and various media. Hot.