Looks like feeds are popular enough to get criticized. I use feeds regularly to follow people. I think feeds work really well when you use them to follow the people you want to read. [Continue]
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Microformatting This Blog
I have been long reading about microformats and even using them in some projects. But somehow integrating them with this blog has taken this long. This blog is microformatted now, specifically hCard and hAtom. [Continue]
Upgrade FeedSmith
Amit Agarwal informs us that FeedBurner has upgraded the FeedSmith plugin for WordPress to plug a potential security vulenrability, which means that it is an required update. The upgrade is really simple. Even if you are using the older version, just disable it, delete the older file, upload the new one, enable it and you are good to go. [Continue]
Partial Feeds v/s Full Feeds
The good old debate seems to have resurrected itself with the acquisition of Freakonomics blog by NY Times. Yes, it has moved, and so have the feeds – from full to partial. Mathew Ingram thinks it is a bad idea and Mike Masnick in fact explains how the full feeds drive more traffic. [Continue]
The Google Feedburner Scare
I was waiting for some kind of notice to us, the users, regarding the buyout. But the one at the login prompt was scary than informative. NOTE: Service of FeedBurner publisher accounts will not be interrupted as a result of the acquisition by Google. [Continue]
Modifying FeedBurner Plugin
This blog uses the excellent FeedBurner plugin. It is very good at its job, but there is one disadvantage. We lose all the individual feeds that WordPress generates per category or author as all feeds get redirected to the single FeedBurner feed. [Continue]
Too Distributed
I know, I know that Web 2.0 is all about decentralization, so that I am not bound to any single provider. In stead of the big brother provider everything we have different providers for different services. And we have mashups that make them talk to each other. [Continue]
FeedLinx Shutting Down
I received an email from FeedLinx support that FeedLinx is shutting down. It was not just one of the feed to email converters, you can use it to keep a track of your feed subscriptions across machines and aggregators. I had used it for sometime to synchronize across feed readers. [Continue]
Redirecting To Feedburner
I have started using Steve Smith’s Feedburner Plugin to ensure that all subscribers get the same experience. It redirects the WordPress feed subscriber for posts and comments of this blog to the Feedburner feed for posts and comments both. It will also help me implement at least one of the suggestions for reducing the bandwidth usage. [Continue]
Indian Newspapers And Feeds
If you are wondering whether Indian newspapers have caught up with feeds, NewsRack might help (via Rajesh Jain). I still see some newspapers missing, especially the regional ones. There might be an influence of lack of localization in Indian languages, but I think the industry can really push it ahead.
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