Monday, April 09, 2007
Macnight now has an RSS feed
I have setup our blog to be an RSS feed. Now you might say, what the heck is an RSS feed. Well it took me a bit of researching to figure this out too. RSS and its brother Atom is a way for the blog to push info to subscribers whenever new content is added. For now all I got working is new postings but I will see if I can get new comments added too. Some web browsers handle RSS feeds as something called "Live links". This adds a dynamic bookmark which will have a long list of the current postings on Macnight. Safari does this and so does version 2.0 of Firefox. The other option is to use something called a news reader. This is a separate program that allows you to add feeds to it and then all the headlines, blogs update automatically. This is for the hard core user. Google had one of these online. Thunderbird email also performs this function but has limited features. I find the "dynamic bookmarks" to work the best for what I need. A simple quick check without loging in to blogger.com.
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An OUTSTANDING addition, Stitch! I noticed the link a while ago and forgot to ask you about it. It really is convenient to have access to a feed. Thanks again!
Actually the feed is automatically setup with Blogger. If you see the subscribe to Atom link at the bottom of the page. But if you click it you get a page full of rubbish. So I dug deeper into it and found Feedster.com which is the link above. I still don't fully understand how this all works. The feed is suppose to be in XML. But if you don't have a CSS (style sheet) with it, it displays as a bunch of text XML. Then there is RSS vs Atom. From what I have read, Atom is RSS improved. But most browsers don't know how to deal with Atom feeds. Then it gets a little grey. All I know is that I put Macnight on Feedster.com and it had automatic links to set this up in Blogger. It is a black box to me. But now it works with active bookmarks which is all I was looking for.
Still outstanding!
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