Jeni's Musings

Hi Jeni,

I just now embarked on the sojourn of figuring out the mess. I ended up having to sniff on planet.xmlhack.com to find the $@#%! feed for my posts predating broadcast.oreilly.com. I’m with dret. The ORA suthor pages exhibit poor Web design. For one thing, where is the bog-simple feed discovery?

Anyway, mine is at: http://www.oreillynet.com/feeds/author/?x-au=1054 . Unfortunately when I substitute your author number, I get a blank HTML page. I suspect they preserved mine specifically to avoid breaking my feed to planet xmlhack, but they didn’t extend that consideration to all authors. I’m tempted to write a scraper that converts the HTML listing on ORA blog author pages to atom. With Amara should be a piece of cake :)

Hope all is well, and hope to see you again, soon.