Category: Geek Love

Whoo hoo! My site made the top 10 on the Name That Blog’s Best Known Blogs list! You know me! You really know me!

Pretty appropriate that I spent the day adding RSS feeds to Newzcrawler while my site was down – I just discovered thanks to a feed of Scripting.com that 4 years ago today was a huge day in XML-based syndication technology on the Web.

Oh yeah – my site and many, many others were down for a good chunk of the day. All should be well now, and I’m posting a full update on the events on Themis in the Blogomania forums. (The 4 other servers were running just fine.)

Syndirella is working well, don’t get me wrong. But then I installed NewzCrawler which Lisa recommended to me and all I can say is … WOW. Add to my amusement – just now as I pulled up her site, Newzcrawler told me that her site has an RSS feed. I think I’m going to cry.

Plus, any site that includes the Lockergnome Bits & Bytes the second I install it has to rock.

Jennifer pointed out that several of the sites she added to her news reader just showed excerpts for posts, not the full post – so it really isn’t much of a help to her. If you want me to read your site during the week, I beg & plead … update your RSS feed to include the full post. I’ve linked to the template at least 3 times this week, so you really have no excuse. I promise, I will come to your site and comment still. I’ll be happy, you’ll be happy, and it will all be good.

I haven’t taken the time to wrap up my summary of SXSW, but Nikolai’s is so perfect, all that is left for me to fill in the things I did differently. You can visit his site to learn all about SXSW 2003: Dumb Mobs and Instant Nostalgia. Just follow the links on the bottom of the pages. [via Matt]

My CSS may be wrong, but at least my RSS feed is valid. That counts for something, doesn’t it?

Now it’s time for me to shamelessly beg again that EVERYONE running MT takes the 5 minutes needed to head on over to Dive Into Mark, grab the RSS 2.0 template for Movable Type (I chose to “Save Target As” to grab it yesterday) and replace the default index.xml template. If you have deleted your index.xml template all together, I beg you to add one back and link to it on your index page.

Later this weekend I’ll be writing a “what is RSS and why do I love it?” post for ScriptyGoddess, and I’ll post a link to it here because I know I’ve got at least a few people curious. But for now – get the template and update it! Then tell me where you’ve put it on your site so I can add you!