New RSS feed (again)
Friday, April 23, 2004
A
couple of days ago I had to change the RSS feed location on my
blog since the RSSify service that I was using stopped working. I
temporarily switched to another RSSify service but decided that I
needed my own RSS feed so that I wouldn't be subject to the whims of
another service provider. So, I wrote my own RSS generation code in
Emacs Lisp. I now generate the RSS at the same time as I FTP a new
post to my weblog.
My new RSS feed is at:
http://bc.tech.coop/blog/rss.xml
The old RSSify
link will continue to work (until that service goes away too) but I
would appreciate it if people would switch to my new feed. The
benefits of switching to my new feed are:
- I update my RSS feed at the same time that I post, so you'll always have the latest posts available immediately via my RSS feed (the RSSify services generally cache the RSS feeds and only update them every hour or so).
- By using my RSS feed, I'll get a better indication of how many people are accessing my weblog (when you use the RSSify feed, I only get 1 hit from the RSSify service, regardless of how many people access the RSS feed that hour). More hits don't necessarily mean that I write more (or better) postings ;-) but they do give me an indication as to which posts people are more interested in.
- You won't have to worry about the feed's location changing again (unless I forget to pay my ISP ;-) ).
