New RSS Feed

RSS stand for Really Simple Syndication but sometimes it is just not that simple. There are so many different versions of RSS that most of us have given up on actually writing our own and just use the features of our favorite blogging tool that can create it for us automatically. I use blogger which actually creates a feed for me using the Atom format. I started using feedburner a while back but never really played around with the settings or anything like that. I actually just used it hoping it would create a true "RSS" feed for users that had readers that may not support the atom format. Well today when I was working on my Active Desktop video I tried to make a smart part RSS feed for my blog and received a polite error informing me that my RSS feed was not valid. How bad does it look if your sitting making an Active Desktop video with RSS feeds and people can't even add your own blog to it! Well realizing this was a problem I started playing with the feedburner settings. Altering some settings my feed is converted into RSS 2.0 format. It now works with the MindManager smart parts RSS feed creator. So you may want to update your RSS feed if you actually subscribe to it. The old one should still work but if you have problems please let me know and I'll see what I can do to make it work for everyone. The Active Desktop video should be done by tomorrow.

posted by Jason Dorko at 8:28 PM 0 comments links to this post