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Sun, 2008-09-07 19:16 — Jeni

I haven’t been posting here very much of late because my XML-related posts (which tends to be most of them) have been going on xml.com. When I joined xml.com, the promise was more exposure with a wider audience. Then they changed the blogging system, and changed it again, and by now I’m not sure if there’s any audience at all!

However O’Reilly have, finally, provided author-based Atom feeds. So if you want to subscribe to my future xml.com posts, the crucial URL is feed://broadcast.oreilly.com/jeni-tennison/atom.xml. If you want to see my previous posts, they can be found under the “blog” tab on my author page.

Comments

Thu, 2008-11-20 01:44 — Rob Koberg (not verified)

Re: xml.com Atom feed

[Wow! serious spam protection!]

Anyway, on the oreilly blog(s): It is really strange. I have subscribed and found certain posts. THen they don’t appear. Then I subscribe to a ‘general’ oreilly blog that appeared to be about XML and I get what appear to be pontificators on anything (kind of like xml-dev, so I thought it was status quo). Anyway, thanks to David Carlisle I think I have subscribed to your postings. Hopefully you double post here in addition to the oreilly puzzle of blog posts.

(ufff. and the preview makes you retest for spam!..)

(second time through being proved human…)

Thu, 2008-11-13 16:44 — Uche Ogbuji (not verified)

Re: xml.com Atom feed

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.

Mon, 2008-09-08 13:06 — Bob DuCharme (not verified)

Re: xml.com Atom feed

Hi Jeni,

Bloglines doesn’t like the “feed:” URI scheme there, but when I substituted “http:” it worked. Also, note that the title of the feed is “O’Reilly Broadcast”; the authors should lobby O’Reilly to use the author’s name as the title of the author-based feed.

Bob

Mon, 2008-09-08 13:00 — David Carlisle

Re: xml.com Atom feed

I thought xml.com had been a bit quiet….

Despite the fact that your recent posts appear to be tagged with xml, you don’t show up here:-)

http://oreilly.com/authors/search/?tag=xml

David

Mon, 2008-09-08 03:33 — dret (not verified)

Re: xml.com Atom feed

interesting, but how did you find your o’reilly feed? i am trying to find mine, but maybe i don’t even have one? is there something authors need to do to get an author feed? but your feed also cannot be found from your author page http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3407 (which still has this wonderful non-bookmarkable tag thing going on), which kind of defeats the purpose of a feed as a publicly available (and findable) resource…

Mon, 2008-09-08 07:44 — Jeni

Re: xml.com Atom feed

Don’t I know it. The only reason I “found” my author feed is because O’Reilly sent me a mail telling me where it was. But I think they’re all in the same form (feed://broadcast.oreilly.com/{hyphenated-author-name}/atom.xml) so I guess yours will be the same. I don’t think it exists until you post something (on “broadcast”), though.

The other thing that’s missing is a usable xml.com feed…