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Shacker Feed Syndication

Oct 15, 2002 10:22

Thanks to grahams for pointing out that LJ now supports RDF feed syndication, and for setting up shacker2 as an LJ user. shacker2 automatically picks up and mirrors my MovableType blog. This means that LJ users can add shacker2 as a friend and read my birdhouse posts through their friends pages. Most righteous.

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grahams October 15 2002, 10:36:26 UTC

I originally set it up for me, forgetting that it might be useful to others, so if you want to talk to someone at LJ and rename it to something more sensical, that's fine with me. =)

shacker October 15 2002, 23:18:51 UTC

Nah, it's great the way it is, and the name is kind of cool (like Terminator 2 or something). As long as you don't mind people using it (can't see why you would).

grahams October 15 2002, 23:31:45 UTC

The way the syndication works, you get X "points"... If you subscribe to a feed, it takes 1 point, but the more people that subscribe to the same feed, it lowers the cost for everyone...

So no, I don't mind. =)

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shacker October 15 2002, 23:11:50 UTC

*Much* easier ;)

Wow... haberlach October 15 2002, 10:58:07 UTC

I should hook that up. How cool is MoveableType? (and do you even get this sort of response?)

Re: Wow... shacker October 15 2002, 23:14:32 UTC

Well, MovableType is the coolest - pretty much total control, you own your data, you get a search engine, you own the back end, it's ... cool. What you give up is the interconnectedness of LJ, which is a big one. MT has comments but no threaded discussions, which is the only real functional step backwards - everything else is forwards. You can think of the two as similar (both are blogging software) or as different (MT is a personal publishing system, LJ is a community system). What you want to accomplish on that spectrum should help guide your decision on which way to go.

ok, but how does it work bodega October 23 2002, 13:11:56 UTC

or, rather, how can i do it? i'm in the process of planning to move my personal blog from livejournal to movabletype, but i'd love to do what you've done to maintain a presence here.

does shacker1 go dormant now? coudl you have replaced the original shacker with the rss version? should i be posting these questions over at the birdhouse/blog?

Re: ok, but how does it work shacker October 23 2002, 18:16:44 UTC

Contact lj user grahams to find out how this is done. But before you're too hasty, it looks like the system regurgitated some posts a week ago, then stopped working altogether - no new posts. Not sure what choked or where, or whether regular users can repair this.

User "shacker1" is fairly dormant, yes. I don't think I could just replace the old one with the auto-RDF feed without obscuring / wiping out all the old posts. It's one or the other, as far as I can tell -- a LiveJournal RSS pickup = a LiveJournal user.

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shacker October 26 2002, 14:52:42 UTC

Xemo looks fun... I'll keep an eye out for it, though I'm pretty sold on Kung-Log. Thanks for your comments on the MacWorld piece! It was a fun piece to do....

Archipelago bodega October 27 2002, 11:07:44 UTC

I'm also looking at Archipelago as a possible one-stop shopping OS X client for any blog engine that uses either Manila XML-RPC, the Blogger API, or the Metaweblog API (which includes entry titles).