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[Oct. 14th, 2002|04:13 pm]
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Syndication LiveJournal's syndication (RSS, RDF) is much improved from the last announcement. You can now add your own RSS feeds and see other popular feeds:
http://www.livejournal.com/syn/
It's not totally done, but it's getting there.
Servers Apologies for the slowness. If you missed one of the recent news updates, we'd ordered new machines, got them, and they were all dead. We returned them to the vendor and ordered from somebody else.
So that second order should be arriving this week. One of the six items already came.
When that's all in (assuming it works, but it should), then we'll be good. |
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aw dude, best of luck! (i just wanted to have the first comment here)
Is there anyway for me to create a syndication for the site theprp.com? (Deleted comment) (Deleted comment)
jerkcity doesn't work :( I don't know anything about RSS feeds, but yeah, Slashdot works fine for me, but jerkcity doesn't.
Ok, here is a question from the blonde zone... what is syndication feed, RSS and RDF? What does that mean to me? Yes I am a lammer but at least I admit it...
A syndication feed is multi-point publishing. You publish in one place (eg. LiveJournal), and syndicate your content to whoever wishes to retrieve it (eg. other websites or RSS readers) RSS stands for RDF Site Summary (RDF stands for Resource Description Framework) or Rich Site Summary, you can see the RSS feed for a paid user by adding rss/ on the end of their address. eg. http://www.livejournal.com/users/technodummy/rss/You are a paid user, which means you can create RSS feeds in LiveJournal from external sources, see below for examples: http://www.livejournal.com/syn/Creating RSS feeds for your favourite websites can save you a lot of time... I barely visit http://slashdot.org now that I can simple watch slashdot on my friends page. This allows blogrolling, which This also means that people can read your journal via an RSS reader if they wish, or republish your content somewhere else. (Deleted comment)
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/2830853/374965) | From: llarian 2002-10-14 05:29 pm (UTC)
A little more documentation? | (Link)
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Give that somebody made a feed for UserFriendly by pointing that account directory at their frontpage, I'm guessing there's a fair amount of people that have no idea what RSS/RDF feeds are.
Perhaps a little more information about what's required to create a new feed is in order?
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/49374691/265743) | From: rog 2002-10-15 06:10 pm (UTC)
Re: A little more documentation? | (Link)
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I just created ufies for UserFriendly.
Shouldn't paid member stuff go into paidmembers? Like, I can see why it would go into news because, well, it /is/ news, but I just feel sorry for paidmembers, all neglected and stuff.
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check the URL on this talkread, abe. (Deleted comment) (Deleted comment) (Deleted comment)
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/49374691/265743) | From: rog 2002-10-14 06:00 pm (UTC)
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Awesome!!! Added: thinkgeek, cnetnewsdotcom and bbcnewsworld before hitting my syndication limit :) This is gonna get messy ... probably need to do some duplicate checking if you don't already.
thanks for the heads up! Those feeds don't show up on the /syn/ page!
I wonder if someone has a partially definitive list or link to syndicated sites???
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/49374691/265743) | From: rog 2002-10-14 06:19 pm (UTC)
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The cnetnewsdotcom feed that I just created has a little issue. The server returns a 302 Moved Temporarily response that appears to stop the feed from being read properly by LJ.
Just thought I'd let someone know. :)
Love your work.
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/49374691/265743) | From: rog 2002-10-14 09:17 pm (UTC)
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Seems to work now.
maybe this isn't the best place to put this comment, but there are lots of LJ features and stuff (such as this one; the poll creator also comes to mind) that, in order to use them, you have to just remember the URLs (or bookmark them) because they aren't linked to from any LJ pages (that i know about)...is this on purpose, is this something that will eventually be changed, or is it just something we have to deal with? (Deleted comment)
I wonder who your vendor was that sent you all the deads? Can you say?
memepool doesn't link to anything other than the main page... is it broken? if RSS feeds are broken, can they be deleted?
No, that's just how Memepool have set up their feed. Everything looks right on LiveJournal's end; if you'd rather Memepool's RSS feed carry different information, you might mail them about it.
Brad, this is just sweet!
What I want to know is this:
What other LJ features are out there that most of us aren't aware of?
If you didn't post this, I would have never found this! (Probably!)
So what else are we missing out on?
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/34359926/405172) | From: rho 2002-10-14 10:37 pm (UTC)
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I have a site I am hoping can be used for an RSS, but I don't know for certain. How does one check if they do that? I know they have a free headlines service (cbc.ca), but I don't know if that equates to an RSS...
Help?
C.
![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/49374691/265743) | From: rog 2002-10-14 09:13 pm (UTC)
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Just did some googling, doesn't appear to support RSS. | |