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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

RSS Feeding

I think it is time for me to turn my RSS feed back on. I turned it off because of a problem I was having with old entries. I am adding tags (Blogger calls them labels) to old entries and those old entries are showing up a new in my RSS feed. I turned off my RSS feed thinking I could pound out the old entries in a few weeks. With over 2400 entries, it was a larger job than I thought. I have not idea how many entries I have tagged, but it is less than half. The people who use my RSS feed will just have to put up with the Greatest Hits aspect of my blog for now. I will never everyone know when it is over, but it will be a while.

Labels: blog, blogger, rss, rssfeed, sadsalvation

- Rich, 11:44 AM |

Friday, April 27, 2007

Image Search and blogging

March 31: Flower Tattoo
Originally uploaded by earthdog.

I have been looking the Sad Salvation referral logs. When I first started to blog I looked at them all the time. I even did posts about crazy ways people found my blog. There used to be a lot of crazy searches that pulled up Sad Salvation.

Now looking at my referral logs, 80% of the searches that find my blog are Image searches. Most of the images they find are old images, before I used flickr for my blog. It seems that some images are more popular than others. That is why I picked the flower tattoo for this post.

I know that many people do not link to my blog. Many of my readers have gone away since I turned off my RSS feed. It just wonder what it means that images are the most found thing about my blog. I have the feeling this is saying something about how people use the web is changing.

Labels: blog, google, image search, rss, sadsalvation, search

- Rich, 7:52 PM |

Friday, March 16, 2007

The feed is off

I am turning off my RSS feed for a little while. I want to use the blogger label function to add tags to a lot of my old entries. The only way I can think to do this is to turn off my RSS feed. You will have visit Sad Salvation to get all of my blog goodness.

Labels: blog, rss, rssfeed, sadsalvation

- Rich, 7:44 PM |

Monday, January 08, 2007

Note to RSS Feed Readers

This is a quick note to the RSS feed readers of Sad Salvation. (Like those of you who read my Live Journal Feed) Blogger has added a new tagging feature. (They call it labels for some dumb reason) I have been using this feature and even tagging some of my old entries. The problem is that when I publish my old entries with tags, they have been showing up in my RSS feed. It used to not work this way. The RSS feed would only update if I updated an entry on my front page. I am not sure why blogger made these changes.

If you see old entries come up on my RSS feed, you know why it is. You might want to see it as a best of Sad Salvation as I add the tags.

Labels: blogger, blogging, livejournal, rss, rssfeed, sadsalvation

- Rich, 5:38 PM |

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Blogger Meetup

Smile
Originally uploaded by earthdog.

We had our first South Bay/Silicon Valley Blogger meetup of the year on Tuesday. What sticks out in my mind the most is that Elke announced that she turned off her RSS feed. I admire her for that. Some people gave her a hard time because they only read the blogs that show up in their RSS Reader. She wants people to come to her website. If the medium is the message, the message changes when it goes thought an RSS reader.

Labels: blog, blogger meetup, Elkit, rss

- Rich, 11:14 PM |

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