RSS feed on our blogs

zetta · #1 (**permalink**) 08-03-2008, 08:12 AM

A long time ago I signed up for the RSS feed for the blogs by Broken Arrow and Monkey Mama. There's a couple more blogs here I'd like to have feeds on, but I can't remember how I did it, and I don't see an RSS button when I look on the page. Can anyone clue me in?

jeffrey · #2 (**permalink**) 08-03-2008, 09:01 AM

sent to Nate.

nate · #3 (**permalink**) 08-03-2008, 06:08 PM

You can just add rss/ to the end of their blog URL.

for example:

Code:

http://iwasbroke.savingadvice.com/

add:

Code:

http://iwasbroke.savingadvice.com/rss/

Broken Arrow · #4 (**permalink**) 08-03-2008, 09:15 PM

Wow, I'm flattered! I didn't think anyone would RSS feed me, much less you specifically. Because, you know, you're one of those "smart cookies" whom I thought wouldn't be interested in Neanderthalic ramblings. Or perhaps that's why, because they amuse you that this buffoon that has somehow managed to blunder up to this point so far?

Whatever the case may be, thanks!

zetta · #5 (**permalink**) 08-04-2008, 05:39 AM

I tried adding rss/ to the end of disneysteve's address, but got the error "Internet Explorer cannot display this feed".

Does the author have to do something to enable RSS? If so, I'd like to enable it for my blog, but can't see how to do it.

sweeps · #6 (**permalink**) 08-04-2008, 08:42 AM

Are you using IE 6? You may need to upgrade to IE 7 (or switch to Firefox) to see the feeds.

MonkeyMama · #7 (**permalink**) 08-04-2008, 09:50 AM

I specifically remember having to set this up on my blog.

Under control panel - widgets - you can activate the RSS feed on your own blog.

zetta · #8 (**permalink**) 08-04-2008, 02:50 PM

Got it -- to set it up, click on Control Panel, then Widgets, then Feedburner.

Click Create Feed
Copy the last part of the feed address into the box in step 2.

Click Save
Click Activate

Go back to your blog's main page. In the sidebar should be an orange button labelled XML.

Johansen8 · #9 (**permalink**) 08-20-2008, 09:16 AM

I activated this RSS feature on the acct administration panel

cashing_in · #10 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 03:42 AM

Is RSS feeds and XML feeds both the same? and what is Atom?
I am quite confused with these terms and can anyone tell me how to find them on the Blogspot and use them.

creditscore · #11 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 03:58 AM

Quote:

RSS vocabulary has a mechanism to indicate a language for the feed, there is no means by which a language for individual items or text elements can be specified. Atom, on the other hand, uses the standardized xml:lang attribute to make it possible to specify a language context for every piece of human readable content in the feed.

Atom also differs from RSS in that it supports the use of Internationalized Resource Identifiers, which allow links to resources and unique identifiers to contain characters outside the US ASCII character set.

hope this can help you..

nate · #12 (**permalink**) 09-06-2008, 10:50 AM

XML is just a language programmers developed to help describe information (any information). RSS and Atom are both XML, they just require you to write the XML in a standardized way.

That way Joe Schmo can write a program that can download an RSS feed, pick out pieces of it and display them, because he knows before hand the structure of RSS feeds. On the other hand if everyone had just plain old XML feeds, Joe Schmo would have to write a separate program to read each persons XML feed (unless all the XML feeds were written in the same way).

dashar · #13 (**permalink**) 09-24-2008, 02:02 PM

what is our feed url?? I tried appending /rss to the blog address but feedburner is not recognizing it.