Posted by Victoire on Mar 30, 2007 in
Feeds RSS feeds are a great way of staying in touch with conversations on one’s favourite blogs. I have been subscribing to many different feeds in Feedreader lately simply because I don’t have time to browse immediately, but often read a post or two whenever I get the chance. There is just one (slight) problem I have encountered… There seem to be an increasing number of sites with RSS url’s that look something like this:
This is a problem because Firefox does not recognise the url as a feed url at all (neither does Feedreader) and gives me an error message, as can be seen below, instead of automatically inserting the feed into my Feedreader.
The work around is to simply edit the url, deleting the “feed://” part, and inserting a semi-colon between the http’s p and the first forward slash (/) like so:
http:/
and then copy the new url into Feedreader. Note: You can also do the editing within Feedreader.
My question is however, why are some feeds represented like this in the first place?
At the WebPR+ conference Sally Falkow expounded on a variety of means one can draw on to make it easier for blog visitors to syndicate and access one’s content. This is certainly not one of them.
Case in point: even though I am comfortably net-savvy, when faced with this error the first few times I actually thought the feed was broken and immediately browsed away without the syndicated content. What will a first-time RSS user do?
I hope that there is a really simple solution and explanation for this phenomenon! Until then, some of the RSS feeds I want to subscribe to will continue to go *bump* in the night…
This is a repost of a post I originally published on chilibean, a blog I co-author on.
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Posted by Victoire on Mar 14, 2007 in
Fun,
General Hooray! Today is the one month anniversary of our “big announcement” - chilibean media’s launch! What a month it has been.
To start off, we launched with a video, which gave you - our readers - an insight into who we - the chilibeaners - are. Paul talks alot, I laugh alot. Hopefully you feel like you could wander over to either of us and have a chat, now that you could recognise us from a mile away.
The video was also an introduction into this medium for us, one we found rather fun to dabble in (however time consuming the post production may be). I am sure that you will see more of chilibean on video sometime in the future, but for now we’re keeping our “made for podcasting” faces just there… on the chilipods!
The launch video, subsequent feedback from the general blogging community, and a rather official chilibean meeting lead to us formulating the chilibean manifesto, which Paul introduced on Episode 2 of chilipod, and which I will be putting up on the site this week. We were given an opportunity to tone down on the jargon and to express what we have in our hearts regarding chilibean’s offering… in plain English even we can understand.
Talking of podcasting, chilibean got to podcast the Quirk eMarketing WebPR+ conference in this month too. We met Sally Falkow and a whole wack of Quirk people, including Rob Stokes and the Sarah’s. We learnt tons about Marketing and PR, and got a great insight into where New Media can be implemented in this industry… right now!
I’ve also been rather busy in another venture - the SA Blog Awards 2007 - where chilibean has been nominated as a finalist in two categories!
I was invited to be a part of the judging panel. This has been an awesome chance to get to know the bloggers behind the blogs we read, as well as an opportunity to scrutinise the SA blogs themselves… There is a wealth of talent out there, if only there were more hours in the day to just explore the SA blogosphere! With the enormous responsibility of having a hand in choosing the best of the best comes much learning - The judging process is a complex one, and the Cherryflava team really put much effort into making it better every year. Having been a part of that process this year, I can see that there is a gap for the local blogging community to add real value by stepping in and giving their constructive feedback. As a passionately SA blogger I will definitely be helping out wherever I can.
And in between all of this we’ve continued to deliver quality blogging content to your screens! Here’s to another month of chilibean fun and excitement…
This is a repost of a post I originally published on chilibean, a blog I co-author on.
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Posted by Victoire on Mar 6, 2007 in
General News just in: The SA Blog Awards 2007 finalists have been announced!
chilibean has done very well this year, coming in as a finalist in 2 categories!
So head on over to the SA Blog awards page and vote chilibean:
- Best SA Blog about Technology / Computers / Web Development
- Best SA Business Blog
With the announcement of the finalists comes another surprise, the unveiling of the judges! Although we’ve been keeping mum over this side, chilibean’s Victoire is a judge on the 2007 panel! We’ll keep you posted on the awards developments…
This is a repost of a post I originally published on chilibean, a blog I co-author on.
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