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CDB Entry: Why Is Blogger.com Hiding the RSS? Let it Out!

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:32:08 -0700

Under the powerful Google umbrella, Blogger.com is a huge player in the blog-verse offering totally free, hosted blogs, and they are now even looking less cheesy than a few years back. But for being the heavy weight, they are keeping...

comment by: Peter Nguyen

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:50:39 -0700

Actually, the feed needs to be enabled under settings, site feed. I don't think they're hiding it, it's just not enabled by default.

comment by: Alan Levine

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:28:43 -0700

Enabling the feed does not put a link in the template. That is a manual process.

I have found numerous feeds by tacking on the atom.xml when there was no link.

Either way, just about every other blog system out there auto enables feeds and a link for it on the front page.

comment by: Tim

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:53:33 -0700

Actually it's worse than that, some RSS agregators don't "speak" Atom, but you can use Feedster to convert one to the other... How stupid can the clever geeks at Google get!

comment by: Alan Levine

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:54:42 -0700

Blogger is aimed at non techies, and the editing, creation process does this well. I failt o see why feeds ought to be unearthed when (a) they exisit and (b) it would be about 30 characters of extra template HTML to add a link.

Okay, so Atom is all powerful and not RSS, but whatever flavor of syndication is there, amke it available so folks can use it.

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Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:58:33 -0700

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