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RSS Feeds for Comments/Trackbacks Per Blog Post

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I cannot remember why I started down this MT template path, but it was a fun journey. Somehow I stumbled into Phil Ringnalda’s explanation on how to create RSS feeds for individual entries and comments.

This seemed interesting- often when you write a comment to someone else’s blog, there is no way to follow a discussion unless you remember to return to the comment (some blogs have email notifiers). Comments end up being tossed like darts with no followup.

I began addressing this on CDB by including a link to the RSS feed for all comments from this blog. Not good enough.

With a bit of wrangling and quite a bit of modifications from Phil’s original template, I got it going. Every individual entry on this blog has its own RSS feed that includes as items:

  • The entry “excerpt” (a short summary. Phil’s script stuck the entire entry in there, but with a link it seemed to be overkill.
  • Next are items for all comments posted to that entry. Links for these point to named anchors already in the individual entries.
  • Finally are items for all trackback pings recorded for the entry.

For example, this recent entry is nice because it has 2 comments and 2 Trackback pings:
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/08/17/rip_mix_feed.php

it has its own individual RSS feed with just the comments and pings from the entry:
http://cogdogblog.com/alan/archives/2004/08/17/rip_mix_feed.xml

Unfortunately, I am now tired and perhaps unable to explain the magic…

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Blogdigger- Wow

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Within three hours of writing yesterday about Blogdigger (an RSS feed combiner that returns a group of feeds as a single feed), I got a nice comment from Greg at Bloggdigger who let me know that the filtering tools were still being tinkered. It’s rewarding to get direct responses like that from the folks directly […]

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EDUCAUSE Seminar: Objects, Trackback, RSS… maybe even the kitchen sink

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FYI and for self (and colleague Brian Lamb) promotion… if you are attending EDUCAUSE 2004 (October in Denver), sign up now for our pre-conference seminar Decentralization of Learning Resources: Syndicating Learning Objects Using RSS, TrackBack, and Related Technologies: Customized collections of learning objects from multiple repositories are achieved with simple, existing RSS protocols, creating access […]

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Rip. Mix. Feed. How?

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Apple had the perhaps now ill-fated “Rip, Mix, Burn” concept for music– I am looking for something similar (less lawyer intensive) for RSS feeds. It is taking feeds breaking them apart, and rebuilding them into something new. We can rebuild ’em. Stronger. Faster. The Six Million Dollar Feed…. So it goes: Rip a few RSS […]

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Zillman Blog Endless Link Loop: Where’s the White Paper?

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Sifting through the EDU_RSS feeds this evening, I found this reference: Bots, blogs and news aggregators The brilliant Marcus P. Zillman has compiled a free 20-page whitepaper on Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators (PDF). Good stuff. I’m working on a similar effort for a new Social Media blog I’m about to announce. Sounded tempting. I’ve […]

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Web-Unwieldly And Bowl Driving Ear

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(I am reaching for an all-time obscure title for this entry). Out of curiosity, I followed a link from a TrackBack notification to this entry on Rino’s Blog (in dutch): Weblogs voor studenten OK, we zijn het er na de posts van Alan Levine , Scott Leslie, Sybilla, Pierre, en ondergetekende en de bijbehorende kommentaren […]

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Is Someone Calling Us?

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flickr foto Is Someone Calling Us?available on my flickr Cadu and Mickey hear the sound of a bag of potato chips being opened… 3 miles away! It’s hard enough to get people to pay attention to your blog, but when the dogs have wandering attention, what is one to do? That’s okay as Mickey (right) […]

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To San Fran and Back: One Day for Horizon Project

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I was a commuter today- a one day trip fro Phoenix to San Francisco for the NMC Horizon Project meeting… I am rather humbled and honored to be a part of a group of heavy hitters in the instructional technology realm- Phil Long from MIT (we first crossed paths at the TLTGroup‘s mid 1990s summer conferences in sultry Phoenix), Diana Oblinger from EDUCAUSE (long friend of Maricopa and guest speaker here, she is brilliant), Lev Golnick of Case Western (we go back to some email exchanges like 10 years ago when he did a sabbatical at ASU), Ruth Sabean from UCLA (we worked on some eportfolios efforts recently), Cyprien Lomas (NLII fellow and another from the great crew at UBC, Cyprian pops in via iChat and says “Hi from Vienna!”), Peter Samis (“Dr.Pachyderm” and another guest of Maricopa), and more were there…. and little ole me from a community college.

This was an awesomely dynamic group gathered to do the initial brainstorming of a pile of 40+ technologies that will be whittled down to a smaller number, researched, and highlighted in the 2005 Horizon Report.

Anyhow, for no other reason beyond frivolity, I decided on the flight home to jot down a chronology of the day- from the desert to “the City” and back in a flash…