Hi Elaine, That might be a basic question, but it's still a valid one! The blog itself (as an HTML page or collection of such pages) can't be syndicated directly, but Blogger.com creates an XML feed to match the blog, and that XML feed is ready for syndication. (Well... there is a caveat, I will get to that in a moment.) For a typical Blogger blog, the XML feed will be Atom rather than RSS, and it is found at /atom.xml. For example, the feed for my blog:
http://mycharslives.blogspot.com/ can be found at: http://mycharslives.blogspot.com/atom.xml Now for that caveat... The last I checked, the Atom feeds generated by Blogger were still using Atom 0.3, which is now obsolete. If you try to validate that XML feed through FeedValidator.org, it fails: "This feed uses an obsolete namespace" This is a significant problem for feeds in the Syndic8 database because they're not supposed to be approved unless they pass validation. One way to work around this hopefully-temporary problem would be to use FeedBurner.com, which provides format conversions. However, this is treating the symptom rather than the disease, so to speak. Also, I generally see that site as a good tool for consumers rather than publishers, given the nature of making a third party service part of information delivery. If that third party fails, then the information isn't being delivered. This seems to be a timely concern since this morning I've had nothing but "service unavailable" errors from the FeedBurner site! (Admittedly, since I'm not a regular user, this was only after a couple attempts to access it, and maybe there was a reason for the outage published in advance...) Hope this helps, -- Stuart Whitmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.just-stuart.com/ On 6/9/06, sustaingaia88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi ... i'm brand new to ... well, everything. i just really started blogging > in march, learned > about pinging a couple of weeks ago and now i'm trying to figure out what all > this rss and > feed stuff is about; so PLEASE if my questions are simple, please be patient. > while i'm > pretty smart and pick up things very quickly, i promise i will watch and read > and learn then > ask questions if i need a "missing link" of basic information to connect my > dots. thank > you, i hope i can contribute as much as i learn. > > my first question may be the most basic, i use blogger.com and is it true > that the blogs > cannot be syndicated or added to the rss/feeds because they do not use xml? > > thanks again. > > peace & harmony, > elaine > 'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!' > http://businessvoodoo.blogspot.com > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Everything you need is one click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/AHchtC/4FxNAA/yQLSAA/IRislB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
