Adding your feed

Posted January 21st, 2008 by Rudolf
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As you may have noticed, this site runs an aggregator that pulls in a number of feeds and displays the most recent items from those feeds in reverse chronological order. Course participants are asked to add their blog feed to that aggregator. To do so, please make sure you’re logged in to the site, then visit this administration page and fill in your blog’s Title and URL in the two form fields provided. The Title should consist of human-readable language (e.g. "The Daily Hullabaloo", sans quotes) and the URL should be complete (including the "http://" bit), point to the location of your feed rather than the location of your blog’s front page.

To illustrate using a randomly selected Wordpress blog: the correct URL to enter is not http://doublequotes.wordpress.com/ but http://doublequotes.wordpress.com/feed/.

The aggregator updates at the top of the hour, so do not expect your entries to appear immediately after you’ve added your link.

If you would like to add all the SMiELT subscriptions into your personal feedreader once all the feeds have been added, you can do this using the OPML file we provide: just copy the code, paste it into a text editor such as Notepad (which you will find under Accessories on your Windows machine), save it as smielt.opml to your hard drive, then import it from your feedreader and you should be subscribed to all of those feeds in one go.

Update: there’s a Helpdesk topic on the issue.

On January 23rd, 2008 aliciarey said:

And, just for a bit of fun, please look how friendships can be spoilt when RSS/feeds are neglected ;-)

Interaction 2.0 -Times have changed……

On January 23rd, 2008 bdieu said:

Excellent and most appropriate, Alicia :-)

Thanks for sharing.

 

On January 25th, 2008 Rudolf said:

Another thing: as mentioned in the original post, the SMiELT aggregator regularly updates at the top of the hour. Once you’ve added your feed and don’t want to wait for the scheduled update to find out if it really works, you can go to this list page (logged-in users only), find your feed in the list and click on "update items" — this will fetch the most recent items (if any) from your blog. If, for whatever reason, you’d like to edit your feed, please use the same list page as well and tweak your original submission rather than re-submitting the feed. Submitting a feed URL that is already subscribed will trigger an error.

Also: the SMiELT aggregator offers a feed of feeds that rolls all the course participants’ blog posts into one single data stream, updated hourly. If you prefer to keep up on everyone’s writing in your own feed reader rather than through this site, feel free to subscribe to that feed.