rss Posts

Sep 26, 2012

Feedburner has become pretty unreliable lately with a recent problem with follower statistics and news of their API being shut down in October. Add to that the official Feedburner blog and Twitter account being closed one has to start to wonder if Google is simply going to close down Feedburner ...

May 5, 2009

by byrion I hate doing things twice. There are not many things that bug me but doing things twice has always been one of my pet peeves. Like many people I use Google Reader to read RSS feeds and ...

Jan 12, 2009

One of my goals for 2009 was to increase the number of RSS subscribers of my blog. To start to reach that goal for 2009 I have started offering bonuses to RSS subscribers. You can subscribe either by using an RSS reader, such as Google Reader, or by email and ...

Mar 24, 2008

I have been working on the Internet far too long. I remember when the only way to get the latest information from a website was to actually go and visit the website. What a waste of time that was! Face it, browsing the Internet looking at ...

Oct 8, 2007

There are some things that make me happy. This is one of them. I don't know if it was me banning the IP address from this site, or the 403 error image I started to serve to the website that was scraping my feed but the posts are all taken ...

Oct 8, 2007

It appears that I have a fan, ok maybe not a fan. I have a website scraper that is just not smart enough to actually read the content they are scraping so they are getting my nice RSS feed additional content and posting it in the site. They have many ...

Sep 25, 2007

Problogger was running a poll last week to see if people preferred full or partial RSS feeds. The results are in with 75% of the respondents liking full feeds better than partial feeds. I personally have to agree with the poll results. I prefer full RSS feeds, especially now that I ...

Sep 25, 2007

BlogRush came out with a frenzy, and it did not take long to be realized that it is a huge target for spammers and people who want to game the system. From all forms of cheating like hiding the widget on pages, creating custom RSS feeds just to display on ...

Sep 21, 2007

I have been resistant to using another program for reading RSS feeds, but I have been collecting a large number of subscriptions using Firefox's Live bookmarking feature. Not a great way to keep up with all of the feeds, so I wanted to make the jump to using Google Reader. ...

Jun 11, 2007

I don't know how practical this is but I thought it was fun. Newzbubble can take your RSS feed and create this fun flash bubble animation that people can use to find out about the latest news/posts on your website or blog. Here is my RSS feed ...