No good deed goes unpunished, it seems, and my additional feeds were met with more complaints (“but I really wanted a full feed with no comments”; “why are you duplicating content in your excerpts?”, etc). In response, I’ve added a few more feeds, including a full (no comments) Atom 0.3 feed for Joi, and a separate comments feed for people who like their comments on the side.
Before you fuss at me about specifics, however, let me add that I am not writing these templates myself. I don’t have the time or the inclination to learn enough about the syntax to do that. I’m relying on templates posted by others—Mark Pilgrim, Jennifer, and those on the MT site. Want a different feed than what you see here? Point me to an MT template I can use and I’ll consider it.
Not long after I started teaching at RIT, I had my first overachieving student. These are the students that really make me love my job—and keep me on my toes. Ross, a freshman, was already hard at work writing his own XML parser, and had better web coding skills than most of the upperclass students I’d met.
Unfortunately, Ross didn’t stay long at RIT. (And in retrospect, Ross, I feel like I should have worked harder to keep you there.) Once he’d left, I didn’t hear much from him…until I started blogging. Earlier this year, he turned up in the comments of my blog, and I’ve been able to keep track of him a bit on his own blog, Ross Notes.
In his comment on my last entry, he mentioned LocalFeeds in a way that made me think it might be his site. A quick whois lookup confirmed it. Nice job, Ross. I’m glad to see you’re still building cool things in your spare time. :)
And if you haven’t seen LocalFeeds (and added yourself to it), you should. It’s a great way to find weblogs in your geographic area, and let them find you. Tools like this, that begin to blend virtual and geographic communities, are wonderful additions to the social software world.
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