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[heidi]

Does anyone know if Air America's blog is on an RSS feed?

Along similar lines, are any of you hosting a Bake Sale for Democracy?

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[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be busybusy that weekend, but if you find a bake sale or host one, I'll contribute foodstuffs!

[datta.livejournal.com]

I so totally want to do that!

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

I listened to the O'Franken Factor last Wednesday, 3/31, when AirAmerica launched, and I thought it was wonderful. I missed the first half-hour due to forgetting that noon EST equals 11:00 a.m. CST, but I listened to the remaining 2.5 hours and loved it. Finally there's a liberal and FUNNY alternative to all the right-wing "air pollution" on radio. I think I listened online via KPOJ in Oregon.

[(Anonymous)]

They're running some ASP.net CMS, it must be recent so it should have a feed publishing feature. But Bloglines only suggests this: http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/services/rssify/rssify.php?url=http://www.ofrankenfactor.com/

which is good enough I guess. If not - contact them and complain. :)

-Wolf550e

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that code have to be planted into the blogcode itself for it to work, though?

[(Anonymous)]

What do you mean by "code", sff_corgi? I don't follow. RSSify checks when a site is updated and changes the feed's lastBuildDate element accordingly, AFAIK. It does not depend on any service the content provider (original site) might or might not provide beyond basic HTTP one would need to browse it, so nothing has to be included anywhere. Or am I on a totally different wavelength from you?

-Wolf550e

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

When synaesthete7 got interested in getting her Blogspot (I think) journal syndicated to LJ, there was some block of code she had to add to her Blogspot template -- as I remember -- before the feed would actually work.

Maybe they've modified things since then so it's sort of automatic, the way LJ code (LiveJournal, uJournal, etc.) does?

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, according to this ("http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/services/rssify/rssify.php") RSSify uses a span element with a special class name to identify individual items, so the content must use a special template. That explains why it has no items in the above feed.

I don't remember RJA's troubles with it (thank you Blogger and LiveJournal for adopting Atom!), but in any case that only illustrates how RSSify is not the right way to do it - your CMS knows what your content is and when you update it, so it should take care of feeds, not some third party robot scanning your site (already marked-up for presentation as opposed to raw time-stamped data) and trying to reduce it back to the raw data.

But I digress. The RSSify feed is still useful if it provides correct timestamp for last update (does it?) - you can see the site in question has been updated and go look at it manually. And then tell the webmaster about feeds and CMS' for ASP.NET created by Microsoft employees that provide RSS support.

-Wolf550e
who apologized for spamming Heidi8's LJ

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[vapour trails] You lost me. ^_^

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Heidi, I got another bake sale contributor lined up....