Amitai's Breadcrumb Trail http://blog.case.edu/ays/ A salient pointer to Amitai's real blog en-us Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:37:16 EST Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:37:16 EST amitai.schlair@case.edu amitai.schlair@case.edu http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Movable Type v3.121 MT thwarts my attempted cleverness http://blog.case.edu/ays/2005/10/10/mt_thwarts_my_attempted_cleverness On a pointer from J$, I edited my blog.case.edu "index" template to pull RSS from my real blog and generate... http://blog.case.edu/ays/2005/10/10/mt_thwarts_my_attempted_cleverness Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:37:16 EST On a pointer from J$, I edited my blog.case.edu "index" template to pull RSS from my real blog and generate links to my most recent posts. But when I write new posts, the links on this index page don't update. I guess the RSS pulling happens once -- at template regeneration time -- and not, as I'd hoped, at page load time (or a server-load-friendly approximation thereof).

All the more reason to read my real blog directly in the feed reader of your choice.

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Incidentally, my feed reader of choice is rss2email. RSS news items have authors, titles, dates, and bodies (assuming they're nice full feeds and not the sucky kind that gives you a sentence or two). All of which maps nicely to email, which happens to be a type of information we're all quite experienced at processing in large volumes. Why go hunting for a separate RSS reader I like -- and learn a new set of information-processing habits -- when I can apply my email client of choice to the problem? It's so easy to delete threads I don't care about, which is generally most of them, that I'm able to follow a couple hundred feeds. (Really!)

rss2email also makes a handy gateway from RSS feeds (which savvy users grok) to mailing lists (which everyone's parents already understand). I use it in this capacity, too, for my blog and photos.

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]]> Feeding MT with external RSS? http://blog.case.edu/ays/2005/07/27/feeding_mt_with_external_rss As mentioned in my previous post, I have an externally hosted blog I'm very happy with. It produces an RSS/Atom... http://blog.case.edu/ays/2005/07/27/feeding_mt_with_external_rss Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:03:24 EST As mentioned in my previous post, I have an externally hosted blog I'm very happy with. It produces an RSS/Atom feed (like any self-respecting blog software). How can I make this blog a live or frequently-updated consumer of that feed, so that it's essentially a "mirror" for Case readers?

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