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oh, and: syndication stuff
I have had quite a few people ask me why this weblog isn't available as an RSS feed. If you don't know what that is, and you don't care, please carry on without me.
I have tried, at various times, to make the rss feed work. I just spent another highly frustrating half hour, without success. I have tried just using the built in movable type syndication feature; I have tried Feed Burner. Without success. I have looked at the great tutorials at Learning Movable Type, and I now have the url of an extended entry at Feed Burner explaining (maybe) what has gone wrong and what I need to do. But really what I need to do is write, so I'm going to forget all about rss feeds and syndication and all that other great stuff, and go write. When I have some words down, I may feel strong enough to take another run at this. Or maybe not.
I am pretty good at technology, for the most part, but I declare myself officially cowed in this particular matter.
April 27, 2005 02:05 PM
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I've been reading your blog via its RSS feed for months. Can't imagine why others have problems doing so- it's always worked fine for me. I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my feed reader, and am using the following address:
http://www.tiedtothetracks.com/storytelling/index.rdf
Posted by: Lili at April 27, 2005 03:11 PM
Same here, only I use the Mac version of NewsNetWire, and at work I use something for PCs that I snagged from versiontracker that's a freeware. Neither's ever given me any hassles.
Posted by: sGreer at April 27, 2005 04:53 PM
I syndicated your blog at livejournal which uses your rss feed. It's also at Bloglines.
Posted by: Jorie at April 27, 2005 05:20 PM
so color me confused. When I try to set up syndication through feedburner I get this error message:
Sorry
This feed does not validate.
line 2, column 0: XML parsing error: :2:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Ditto here. Your feed is an Atom feed instead of RSS and it's: http://www.tiedtothetracks.com/storytelling/atom.xml
Posted by: Gwenda at April 27, 2005 06:53 PM
Jorie--went over to bloglines to have a look, and I'm wondering why I never thought to check it out before, because that is a seriously good thing. I just wasted a whole hour setting it up for my viewing pleasure.
But I'm still wondering why one of the three syndication types I have available to me isn't working. Not that it's really important. It just bugs me.
Posted by: sara at April 27, 2005 07:53 PM
Oops! Didn't realize it was using atom. Sorry.
Bloglines is good, though occasionally posts get stuck in some kind of lag time. Not too seriously though.
Posted by: Jorie at April 28, 2005 02:05 AM
http://www.tiedtothetracks.com/storytelling/index.rdf also works, and is how I've been reading you for months. (God love NetNewsWire.)
Posted by: Stephanie at April 28, 2005 06:16 AM