Comments on: Getting Images to Display in a FeedBurner Feed and Some Hasty Thoughts on Free Software

by: Scott Carpenter

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:00:46 +0000

Thanks for the tip, John.

by: John Zeratsky

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:33:50 +0000

Hey Scott, you can force FeedBurner to update your feed by pinging us.

by: Scott Carpenter

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:22:52 +0000

Thanks. I need to work on my feed organization. Since I started this thing I’m reading more and different kinds of blogs and it’s hard to keep up efficiently. I like the Sage plugin for Firefox but I really need something that will tell me more at a glance when infrequently updated blogs have something new. I tried Google’s reader but wasn’t that turned on by it. I’m thinking about giving Bloglines a try. I don’t know if I’ve seen an OPML import/export there which would be a downer for getting started and escaping later if necessary.

For Linux, I agree that it has its own headaches, which is one of the reasons I keep putting off really getting in to it. I know it’s not going to be this magical candyland where the birds are always singing, but I’m sure it will be as good and better than Windows once I learn it.

by: PJM

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 04:29:17 +0000

I like the blog …

More on RSS experience would be nice.
I got some feeds running, but it felt like another headache of ‘too much information’ so I barely used it. Yet if I could both publish and read via RSS, signal-noise ratio can be higher.

Writing on this from Linux which I have used since 1995 in many iterations. Used to be dual booted on this machine, but now it is Linux only. Story there is that I did a hardware upgrade, put in a new motherboard, and the windows OS didn’t survive the move. Linux has its own headaches, but it works.