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Thursday, October 14, 2004

everyone has a share

probably noone will understand, much less care, but for what it's worth - the blog can now be syndicated/aggregated via the following syndication feeds:

an RSS 2.0 feed provided by feedburner.com
the Atom feed provided as standard by Blogger

For those with P800 or P900 phones I recommend doHeadlines. For J2ME/MIDP2.0 devices you can use Feedburner's own J2ME Midlet although it seems to crash a lot for me. This might be because the P800 doesn't fully support MIDP2.0. P900 does though.

FYI RSS/Atom are XML 'syndication formats'. Meaning that a machine-readable digest of the posts is created. Software exists for PCs, Phones and Palmtops to periodically download the latest syndication XML. Because XML is machine readable, the software is easily able to determine whether there are any new articles available. Typically one adds feeds from multiple websites to the feed reader software and so the software is able to present a digest page of all new articles (across all feeds). The idea being to save you having to visit each website individually when in fact nothing might have changed since last you visited

feedburner.com is a free service. It's good for providing RSS 1.0 / 2.0 feeds of Blogger.com blogs because Atom (the Blogger-provided syndication format) is relatively new and a lot of Readers do not yet support it.

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