Comments on: RSS feed saga for CPsquare

By: Learning Alliances » Blog Archive » A feed of blogs

Learning Alliances » Blog Archive » A feed of blogs — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:05:53 +0000

[...] mechanics are in place, now for the fun part. I’ve been working on setting up a feed for CPsquare members’ blogs. I just checked it to see whether the feed was [...]

By: John.Smith

John.Smith — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:15:21 +0000

I agree that tool research can be a never-ending task! There is too much to consider and too many alternative tools. A key is copying what other communities that are similar enough are doing. Kind of the “design a little, practice a lot” idea. Probably every communitiy that you observe has one ore more exemplary uses of technology — it’s a great service that you can provide to point out what’s worth copying in “adjacent” communtieis.

By: joitske

joitske — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:11:53 +0000

In some cases in development organisations you notice that we jump on a tool without really evaluating alternatives. So I think it is great how you try to assess technological alternatives from the beginning. Apparently there must be some kind of balance in what you look into, otherwise you never get going. Maybe setting some time limit / maximum number of alternatives while setting off for a tool search/introduction?

By: John.Smith

John.Smith — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:26:11 +0000

Thanks, Sus. Since posting yesterday I’ve bumped into a feed validator tool that has made me think: Will I stumble into the business of telling other people that there are elements of their feeds that are “illegal”? Quite a few surprises when I put the several different feeds into this:

http://feedvalidator.org/

In fact there is a standard WordPress feed for comments and a standard link for it provided by WordPress, too, but my ISP says it’s not “legal” and that I should change it!

http://www.learningalliances.net/index.php/comments/feed/

By: Sus Nyrop

Sus Nyrop — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:25:21 +0000

Did you consider generating RSS feeds for comments

By: Sus Nyrop

Sus Nyrop — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:24:21 +0000

Sir,

I adore your lively storytelling about how confusing and tiem taking it can be to experiment with the many tools for crossing multiple blog feeds and other user generated info material. You’re navigating in a sea of chaos, and I mcuh appreciate your fearless attitude; don’t hesitate too long, just dive into it; these complex aggregation systems are probably developed to simplify othervise complex and individual, messy strategies and procedures for search and reading online -and making sense thereof. Like you I find it takes a great deal of mind energy to figure out what are the pros & cons, JDI – just do it!

sincerely yours, Sus