Fun with Blogging/Atom
Well, nothing is fun unless you take it way, way too far. So... after my brief blog test last night I decided to try just about every feature blogger.com offers tonight. It was a lot of fun, and mostly everything worked like a charm. Last night I set up the blog to publish to my site via ftp, and tonight I played with the various features. Everything should be linked in the homepage sidebar if I did it right: my avatar/mini profile/profile link, band links, new froogle wishlist, amazon wishlist, audioscrobbler page, atom and rss feeds, custom footer and so on. Pretty cool I think. Well, if you're me it's pretty cool.
The first problem I had was with the Atom feed. This turned out to be a classic case of overthinking the problem, which I seem to do a lot with new technologies I know nothing about. My initial conclusion was that the various atom validators/converters don't like subdomain urls. I still don't know why, but it turned out the subdomain I was using was only resolving for my machine but nowhere else. A quick ping from outside my network did indeed fail, just like the Atom validators were telling me, but I wasn't listening very well. So I moved everything to another subdomain which was working: http://blog.ry4n.com/. That's a better link anyway, I was again trying to be too clever.
The second problem I had was trying to convert Atom to RSS. What's with Atom anyway? Being a Semantic Web guy I am an RSS fan, and now this Atom thing popped up and seems to be taking over. Too bad I think, but what do I know. I'm just whining cuz I already know RSS. Blogger.com only generates atom feeds, but I have a few online RSS tools I wanted to link to. So to use RSS tools I needed to use a free online converter. This worked fine, but the url gets a bit ugly which some RDF tools don't enjoy. Eventually I'll write a script and just wget from the translator url to a file whenever I publish a blog entry. Eventually.
The various lists and feeds are on in the homepage sidebar, so there's really no need for me to link them here.
People seem to be into Feed Validators, so I picked one of those and put their very official looking icons next to my feed links. I linked up my current fav RSS tools and linked all the permutations I felt like bothering with at the time. And now here we are.
These are the various online tools I'm using here so far:
Atom 0.3 to RSS 1.0: http://cavedoni.com/2004/02/rss1
FEED Validator for Atom and RSS: http://feedvalidator.org/
Ocelot (OWL visualization): http://ocelot.semwebcentral.org/
ObjectViewer (OWL visualization): http://objectviewer.semwebcentral.org/
RSS Reader: http://www.skyzyx.com/rss/
Well, we all have stories.
The first problem I had was with the Atom feed. This turned out to be a classic case of overthinking the problem, which I seem to do a lot with new technologies I know nothing about. My initial conclusion was that the various atom validators/converters don't like subdomain urls. I still don't know why, but it turned out the subdomain I was using was only resolving for my machine but nowhere else. A quick ping from outside my network did indeed fail, just like the Atom validators were telling me, but I wasn't listening very well. So I moved everything to another subdomain which was working: http://blog.ry4n.com/. That's a better link anyway, I was again trying to be too clever.
The second problem I had was trying to convert Atom to RSS. What's with Atom anyway? Being a Semantic Web guy I am an RSS fan, and now this Atom thing popped up and seems to be taking over. Too bad I think, but what do I know. I'm just whining cuz I already know RSS. Blogger.com only generates atom feeds, but I have a few online RSS tools I wanted to link to. So to use RSS tools I needed to use a free online converter. This worked fine, but the url gets a bit ugly which some RDF tools don't enjoy. Eventually I'll write a script and just wget from the translator url to a file whenever I publish a blog entry. Eventually.
The various lists and feeds are on in the homepage sidebar, so there's really no need for me to link them here.
People seem to be into Feed Validators, so I picked one of those and put their very official looking icons next to my feed links. I linked up my current fav RSS tools and linked all the permutations I felt like bothering with at the time. And now here we are.
These are the various online tools I'm using here so far:
Atom 0.3 to RSS 1.0: http://cavedoni.com/2004/02/rss1
FEED Validator for Atom and RSS: http://feedvalidator.org/
Ocelot (OWL visualization): http://ocelot.semwebcentral.org/
ObjectViewer (OWL visualization): http://objectviewer.semwebcentral.org/
RSS Reader: http://www.skyzyx.com/rss/
Well, we all have stories.
posted by ry4n at 5:16 AM
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![[Valid RSS]](http://blog.ry4n.com/valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed"){kind=small}
![[Valid Atom]](http://blog.ry4n.com/valid-atom.png "Validate my Atom feed"){kind=small}
