Feedburner
I’ve just discovered Feedburner. It’s a service which takes your RSS or Atom feed and splices in bits of other content or functionality. Soâfor exampleâyou can produce a ‘SmartFeed’, which dynamically delivers the correct format (RSS, RDF or Atom) to a the reader, or you can splice in feeds for your last few flickr images. It’s free, so I set one up out of curiosity, which you can find here. It’s got the works; flickr photos, del.icio.us links, Amazon associate ID automagically added to any links to media items, and it’s a SmartFeed. My only gripe is that it doesn’t seem possible to show the full text of an entry in the feed, but perhaps I’m missing something. What do people think? I might provide this feed for a while to see if people prefer one giant feed to a number of more specific ones.
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Personally, I prefer a few separate feeds rather than one aggregated one. I have my Bloglines subscriptions allocated to different folders: personal weblogs, news, subject-specific weblogs, linklogs, photoblogs, etc. So whilst your main weblog feed goes into my "Personal weblogs" folder, your del.ico.us links feed goes to my linklogs folder. You get the idea. Is this just me being particularly fastidious?----- It's the "Mobile Filter" that's truncating those items -- if you deselect that filter, you should have the full body of your posts available. We're planning on just moving that functionality into SmartFeed one of these days, so it would only do that when (duh!) it's being read on a mobile device.
You have a very nice site, by the way!
by Eric @ 09/10/2004 12:11 pm • Permalink •
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David: No, I think that's the way a lot of people work. I'm finding it quite useful, but only because it's easier for me to have one feed to keep an eye on to make sure that things are working OK.
Eric: D'oh! Of course! I've switched that option off now. Thanks!
by bsag @ 09/10/2004 7:10 pm • Permalink •
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