Monday, June 21, 2004
Geekdom Incarnate goes RSS
I've just added a news feed for this site. If you use a news aggregator to read RSS feeds, you can add this site to your list of feeds so you will automatically be notified when there is a new post. Click on this:
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However, if your browser (like mine: Safari) isn't smart enough to pass the handling of an xml feed to your RSS aggregator/reader, then you'll have to explicitly subscribe to this URL in your RSS reader: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeekdomIncarnate .
Does anybody know of a fix for this? I heard mention of an info.plist for Safari which can be edited to change associations between types and helper apps, but couldn't find such a plist on my machine.
I'm using feedburner.com to convert my Blogger Atom feed (free) into an RSS feed (free), thus avoiding paying for Blogger Pro -- many thanks to Blogger for suggesting a way for me to avoid paying them money! But I'm puzzled by one thing: I explicitly did not select the feedburner option which strips away links from my feed, thus forcing users to connect to my site in order to link to further content. Nevertheless, the links are in fact stripped out. Is this a "feature" of Blogger's Atom feeds?
Also, I chose the option of having an image associated with my feed, but the image is not appearing in my RSS reader, even though images for other feeds do appear. Any explanations for the discrepancy?
From Chichester Terrace, Brighton
I've just added a news feed for this site. If you use a news aggregator to read RSS feeds, you can add this site to your list of feeds so you will automatically be notified when there is a new post. Click on this:
.However, if your browser (like mine: Safari) isn't smart enough to pass the handling of an xml feed to your RSS aggregator/reader, then you'll have to explicitly subscribe to this URL in your RSS reader: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeekdomIncarnate .
Does anybody know of a fix for this? I heard mention of an info.plist for Safari which can be edited to change associations between types and helper apps, but couldn't find such a plist on my machine.
I'm using feedburner.com to convert my Blogger Atom feed (free) into an RSS feed (free), thus avoiding paying for Blogger Pro -- many thanks to Blogger for suggesting a way for me to avoid paying them money! But I'm puzzled by one thing: I explicitly did not select the feedburner option which strips away links from my feed, thus forcing users to connect to my site in order to link to further content. Nevertheless, the links are in fact stripped out. Is this a "feature" of Blogger's Atom feeds?
Also, I chose the option of having an image associated with my feed, but the image is not appearing in my RSS reader, even though images for other feeds do appear. Any explanations for the discrepancy?
From Chichester Terrace, Brighton
