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    Tuesday, January 31, 2006
     RSS Is a Leisure Class Activity
    Warning: Meta Blogging To Follow

    Immediately after posting this blog address to the recently liberated (in my mind anyway) rhizome, I received two emails telling me I needed an RSS feed. Because I am a fan of the ease-of-use culture, I am going to state very simply that I chose atom instead of RSS simply because atom is turned on by changing a blogger setting to "on" and RSS is set up to take me through a labyrinthine series of site analyzers, code checkers and other ridiculous things I don't have time for. And yes, I highly doubt any of them are actually neccesary, but that's a sorting task I don't have much time for these days.

    So, RSS people, does atom do the same thing? And why is setting up an RSS feed so ridiculously tedious? Seriously, I'm doing my first round of visual basic and found that to be cake compared to getting my site up to a standard that feedburner would treat with a shred of dignity.

    If you want an RSS feed, end user, then you are going to have to use the comments to explain it to me like I'm a 12 year old. Hearts will come through the computer monitor to the person who shows me the way to a functional RSS feed. But otherwise, there's an allegedly functional atom feed for you at the top of my links list, ripe for your appropriation.

    Posted by Eryk @ 3:20 PM

    Comments:
    This site makes it look simple. The feed check should only have to be once, then it should be good to go.

    Personally, I'm a traditionalist with my blog and music review reading. I like to read a web page and not have to use programming or options to read them. That is for my day job.
     
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