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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
RSS feed button
After having several readers write me whether I have an RSS feed, I installed this fancy orange buttom
in the sidebar. This is the feed that Blogger.com is offering. But to be totally honest I am not totally sure whether that feed is "RSS" or some other feed type, and how I would even find out. I just couldn't find an orange button saying "some feed".On my computer I installed Internet Explorer 7 a while ago, which has an orange feed button integrated in the task bar, and which is able to find the feed of any site that has one.
[EDIT]
Thanks to the helpful advice of my readers, I changed to another orange button, which doesn't say "RSS", but is apparently an accepted general feed icon.
- posted by Tobold @ 11:41 AM Permanent Link
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I can;t be sure, but it looks like blogger are using the services of feedburner. It basically takes all your feeds and wraps them into a neat little package, and real easy to choose what feed reader to use.
# posted by 
: 28/2/07 13:18
: 28/2/07 13:18
Hi Tobold,
your feed isn't RSS, but Atom, which is anyway better than RSS (lots of different formats in differen versions). Atom is an official (proposed) standard, while RSS isn't (although RSS is the old 'de facto standard' for newsfeeds).
You might find these articles useful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)
As an icon for the feed, I'd suggest you to use this one, with the well-known symbol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Feed-icon.svg
Nice to see Tobold.com with feed, keep up the good work :)
your feed isn't RSS, but Atom, which is anyway better than RSS (lots of different formats in differen versions). Atom is an official (proposed) standard, while RSS isn't (although RSS is the old 'de facto standard' for newsfeeds).
You might find these articles useful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)
As an icon for the feed, I'd suggest you to use this one, with the well-known symbol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Feed-icon.svg
Nice to see Tobold.com with feed, keep up the good work :)
# posted by : 28/2/07 13:20
: 28/2/07 13:20
For anyone using FireFox...
The feed can be used as livebookmark.
In practice you end up with a bookmark that has (like a folder of bookmarks) an always up to date links to every recent post (taken from the feed).
I use it since months ago (tobolds feed).
To use a livefeed just drag and drop the feed icon on the right of the url... et voila' you have an everchanging and always update bookmark to this blog posts.
The feed can be used as livebookmark.
In practice you end up with a bookmark that has (like a folder of bookmarks) an always up to date links to every recent post (taken from the feed).
I use it since months ago (tobolds feed).
To use a livefeed just drag and drop the feed icon on the right of the url... et voila' you have an everchanging and always update bookmark to this blog posts.
a huge fan of www.bloglines.com myself, particularly useful for those who read lots and lots o blogs
@tachyon, lol, thats a huge arse button =D
@tachyon, lol, thats a huge arse button =D
# posted by : 28/2/07 13:47
: 28/2/07 13:47
Tobold, would it be possible to activate the Full feed (in Blogger settings for your blog, "Site feed" tab). It would make your blog easier to read for users of a RSS newsreader.
Thanks for your posts!
Thanks for your posts!
I don't *want* to activate full feed, because then people could read all I write without ever visiting this site, and they'd be completely invisible to me.
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