David Ascher
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Features of Atom over RSS
I just (duh!) figured out one benefit of Atom feeds over older RSS feeds — the body of the posts are more than just CDATA, but can include links and other markup. Now, I’d like a bloglines feature that “auto-upgraded” all of my old feeds to Atom feeds if there...
Technorati snippet slows down pages a lot
I just figured out one reason why my old blog was slow — I was including the HTML snippet from technorati which pulls the JS code from their servers — it caused serious delays on page rendering. Out with that, and in with the simper version.
Cluetrain
As admonished to do so by Scoble (I do everything he tells me to do, of course), I’ve been reading The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. It’s been fun. Part of me would love to read an equally acerbic and “vociferous” rebuttal, from clued-in marketers and lawyers,...
Aggregators as Evil Connectors
Scary. I setup this blog in ‘stealth’ mode while I was tweaking it, and the default configuration of wordpress involves pinging pingomatic, which is a Good Thing, as it’s best-practices, etc. However, what it meant was that I got comment spam (luckily auto-moderated by the filter I configured easily) within...
Apache, redirect old RSS feed?
In switching to the new blogging software, I have broken the URLs for the old RSS feeds. If anyone has feedback on how I can use Apache .htaccess and the like to redirect a URL that goes through a file that doesn’t exist (…/index.cgi/index.rss) over to another URL (…/blog/wp-rss2.php), please...