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January 2021 Update to SF-Worlds.Com
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January 2021 Update to SF-Worlds.Com
Michael > January 22nd, 2021, 01:51 AM
Xenite.Org and SF-Worlds.Com have a little sister site, SF-Worlds.Com. In fact, I registered SF-Worlds.Com before we registered SF-Fandom.Com.
The original concept for SF-Worlds.Com was for it to be an RSS feed aggregator. In the late 1990s, RSS stood for Rich Site Summary and there were Websites that published Javascript widgets built from RSS feeds. In other words, a news site would publish its most recent stories in an RSS feed and another site, like StartPage, would set up a Javascript widget that displayed the headlines from that RSS feed in a little box.
Netscape - which developed the RSS format - called these widgets "channels". And you could embed them on your own site.
SF-Worlds.Com was a science fiction and fantasy (primarily) and entertainment news aggregator. Unfortunately, the dot-com meltdown of 2000 drove so many companies out of business that the RSS channels industry collapsed.
I had to scramble to find other content to publish on the site and it has kind of languished ever since. I really haven't developed it like I should have.
Still, through the years I've updated the site's design. It's mobile-friendly and hosts a few dozen articles I wrote years ago. Over the holidays I decided to redo the blog section, which was originally used for announcements. The last few announcements were way out of date, so I've removed them.
Here are the recent blog posts I wrote for the site. I'll do my best to add more throughout the coming months.
Science Fiction Worlds are Not What They Used to Be
J.R.R. Tolkien to Publish New Book in 2021 – The Nature of Middle-earth
Directors Who Evolved Sci-Fi & Fantasy Movies
The Fantasy Worlds of Orlando Bloom