Comments on: The Airing of Grievances: Bloggin’

By: Kate O'

Kate O' — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:42:52 +0000

I recently learned that NetNewsWire has a statistics viewer (Bandwidth Stats) that can show you various metrics for each feed you subscribe to, including “200s,” which indicate how many times in the current session it has downloaded the whole feed rather than “304s” which are incremental downloads. (Other feed readers may have this option, too.) I’ve found that, for some of the feeds that were generating a lot of extra downloads, subscribing to an alternate version of the site’s feed seemed to make some difference. I’m in no way an RSS expert, though, so I can’t elaborate much more than that.

By: Sean Braisted

Sean Braisted — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:26:05 +0000

I may have to switch to another setup…ever since I went to Blogger Beta, my feed has been messed up.

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:59:28 +0000

But I guess that�s a flaw of the newsreader as much as of the blogger.

Yea, my dream feed aggravator would do this, it would cache the text of the feed, it would scrape the page itself for photos, it would flag when a post was updated (It’s always fun to show/blog about the MSM when they change a story without issuing a correction) caching both copies. It would even scrape the comments too. Then it would allow you to transfer the cache to an ebook reader for casual offline reading.

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:51:55 +0000

Somehow, your feeds update every hour or so. And all it shows me is the same post over and over. Either your blogging software automatically re-sends your feed every hour, or you�re updating spelling/grammar throughout the day. Well, stop. I only want to read a post once unless it�s updated.

Even though 2.0+ WordPress has a great preview feature, I sometimes can’t see the glaring spelling or grammar mistakes unless it’s published. Sometimes It helps to set a future publishing date and then preview it using administrative privileges, but I’m guilty as charged.

I hate when people do that shit too. WordPress really needs a �minor correction, do not refresh the feed� feature.

Until then, I’ll only do minor edits within the first 30 minutes of publishing, or after it’s aged a few weeks.

When others do this spellcheck-throughout-the-day thingy it annoys the crap outta me too.

By: Busy Mom

Busy Mom — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:43:28 +0000

My cat cares about you.

By: jonathan hickman

jonathan hickman — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:05:53 +0000

And on that note, I just realized that this always happens when you don't come up with creative titles. The TN Politics blog, eg, does a "daily dose." And every day when he calls it "daily dose," my reader has to rename the other daily doses, thereby rendering them new. But I guess that's a flaw of the newsreader as much as of the blogger.

By: jonathan hickman

jonathan hickman — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:59:30 +0000

If you ever figure out why some blogs do the “feeds updating every hour” or “all feeds updating when there’s a new post” thing, let us know. That drives me nuts, too. I sometimes stop reading blogs when I get tired of dealing with the 20 new posts mess.