Does the RSS protocol support categories? - rss

I've never seen a feed reader that supports unsubscribing from posts with a particular category. This seems like such a logical feature for RSS users (who tend to be power users), that I've started to wonder if this is due to a limitation of the protocol. Does the RSS protocol have an official feature to support categories? Alternatively, is there an unofficial extension that has this feature?

Yes, the specification defines category tags for both items and channels, but it depends on the publisher how well they categorize their content.

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how to increase the number of views in google analytics

How can we increase the number of views in a single property of google analytics.
I want to use only single property in my sites, hence need more number of views.
Around 500.
How do I get it?
Thank you.
As per documentation
Contact your support representative if you need more properties or views.
Since for the free version you will not have a support representative you need to be a GA Premium customer (or possibly a really really major adwords spender) if you want additional views.

How to Make anypage a RSS feed Free?

I wanted to import this as an RSS feed on my website http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/yoga/ but it is not an RSS feed.
Huffington post does have RSS feeds but they are so broad. I want one just about yoga. I see there are sites that do it but you have to pay for it.
I just want to get the title, small description, and link back url like most rss feeds.
As of 2021 rss.app seems to be quite comperensive service for transforming websites to rss feeds: https://rss.app/
Deprecated information:
I tried a few services and the best results (=ease of use and good
looking rss feed) I got with Kimono. They
support JSON, CSV and
RSS results or you can
embed the feed
on your site and they even have a Wordpress
plugin. Here is the API
feed I created if you want to try (requires login):
https://www.kimonolabs.com/apis/3qhk4fyq
Other services that I quickly tried are Feed43
and Page2rss. Those seem usable, but also a
bit difficult to use or limited in features.
Superfeedr also allows
subscribing to
html elements, but requires more skill to get something working out of
it.
All of those services are free or offer free plans with limited features.

Are there any text-only CAPTCHA systems available?

for some niche reasons I often find that a text-only captcha would be better than the traditional image/audio solutions. Some of the reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
Text-based browser support(lynx, links, etc)
To provide write-capable public APIs, but prevent massive amount of spam
For accessibility reasons (I've heard that the audio versions are very hard to understand to prevent voice-recognition software attacks)
Are there any text-only CAPTCHA systems available out there?
http://textcaptcha.com/ is a logic based, but also purely text based, captcha system., and is free too.
I don't think you have any control over the type of questions that are passed to you, but worth reading the documentation. Whilst it may pose problems for users with cognitive disabilities, it's on the right track, and an improvement on the standard recaptcha type captchas, which create difficulties for blind and vision impaired users alike.
All of the CAPTCHAs I've seen that don't use images or audio involve some sort of cognition:
What day of the week is tomorrow?
Who was the host of last week's SNL?
What is 2 + 3 plus four?

SEO of asp.net meta tags

Simply wondering if any SEO specialists out there know if Google or other search providers index meta differently because of the id generated by asp.net
Generally no, they will ignore meta tags and do whatever they please.
As stevemegson notes, the description meta tag is useful for providing your own description to display on the SERP (no guarantees it will be used).
Heres a great quote from the Wiki page for Meta_Tag:
Major search engine robots are more
likely to quantify such extant factors
as the volume of incoming links from
related websites, quantity and quality
of content, technical precision of
source code, spelling, functional v.
broken hyperlinks, volume and
consistency of searches and/or viewer
traffic, time within website, page
views, revisits, click-throughs,
technical user-features, uniqueness,
redundancy, relevance, advertising
revenue yield, freshness, geography,
language and other intrinsic
characteristics.

Good RSS news feed for JavaFx news and resources

...Yes I've seen:
Best Resources for Learning JavaFX?
but it doesn't really answer the question. Maybe there just aren't any good resources at the moment?
UPDATE:
http://developers.sun.com/rss/javafx.xml is OK
If you have Google Reader you could use their Discover tool to find feeds, e.g. JavaFX feeds.
Technorati has a large selection
Google Blog Search also has some results.
Note that I don't even know what JavaFX is - your best bet, as with any topic, is to use the social search tools out there to find authors who write about your particular topic, and then subscribe to them if you like what you read.
Something I've taken to recently is using Google Alerts and Google Reader (any RSS reader will do) to get reports as they come in of searches for a particular topic. You get access to what people are searching for within a topic and what they eventually decide on. I've discovered a few interesting pages on PHP since I started this, it's a useful tool.

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