May 13, 2004

Atom Feed

Well, those who are interested probably already noticed this already, but I finally added an Atom feed (you can also get it from the sidebar). I don’t know anything about Atom, and I’m not sure if the feed works correctly or not (it doesn’t validate properly, but it looks okay in Bloglines). I just noticed it was showing up a lot in my 404 stats, so I grabbed Movable Type’s default Atom template.

Seemed to make a lot of people happy, so this announcement was probably unnecessary, but I figured maybe there were some interested people out there who weren’t keeping an active lookout for it. Anyway, if there are problems with the feed (or the other ones, which probably don’t validate either), drop me an e-mail (check my About Page for how to do that) or write a comment here.

Not that I’d know what to do about it, but at least I’d then be motivated to figure out what’s going on.

Update

Well, now that I’ve also finally upgraded to Movable Type 2.661, it turns out the feed now validates just fine. Apparently, it was using a few recently added Movable Type tags. So if it doesn’t work, it’s probably something on your end! :)

May 13, 2004 07:55 PM in Blogging | Permalink
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The 404s were likely a result of the rumored blog search that Google’s been cooking. ATOM is heavily backed by the folks at Google via Blogger. In fact, the latest Blogger updates makes it increasingly hard to even produce an RSS feed.

Should be interesting, the Syndication format wars is just beginning. Google and Yahoo have taken sides and who knows what will happen as they bring it to the masses.

Posted by Andy Ruff at 05/13/04, 08:38 PM (link)

You were supposed to say, “Begun, the syndication format wars have.” :)

Hmmm, interesting possibility. Well, I was planning to add an Atom feed eventually anyway, so I guess I don’t mind the kick in the butt.

Posted by fling93 at 05/13/04, 09:04 PM (link)

I get 404’s for google trying to read urls like rss.xml, index.rss, etc. If Google the search engine wants to read my RSS feeds, it’s further evidence that they really don’t care about Atom vs. RSS as much as the blogosphere thinks they do. Yahoo groks RSS (and Atom). Google the search engine groks Atom (and RSS). Blogger does not output RSS yet but on my blog I use an Atom to RSS converter from Cavedoni.com

Best Regards.

Posted by Internet and Productivity Blogger at 06/19/04, 01:32 AM (link)