I love the Inkernets. Just the other day I helped Richard with something, and now he goes and posts this. I suspect it may have been Carolyn who put the category RSS bug in both our ears. Freakishly coincidental is the fact that not 3 hours ago I was poking at Feedburner to see if I could get it to do this exact same thing! (it can’t).
Link: Science Library Pad: using Blogdigger to create custom category RSS feeds.
So here you go Carolyn, and anyone else who’s interested in subscribing only to some of my categories. Maybe you, Greg, who doesn’t think of himself as one who’d be interested in distance education 🙂
This is a great discovery Richard, thanks!
Update: The RSS feeds for each category now appear in the sidebar to the right. No way I can see to just get a feed button next to the categories at the top of the page, but if you scroll down you’ll see the whole list repeated under the heading of Category Feeds. I ran the Blogdigger feeds through Feedburner so I can see how many folks actually choose to subscribe to a category feed. Let’s see, I could subscribe to those feeds in Bloglines, then run a PubSub search alert feed on them, tag them in del.icio.us… What else could I run them through 😉
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Not that I think you shouldn’t offer them, but it seems to me that your writings are all tied to the central topic and too interrelated to be easily dissected along category lines. It works better in the case of a blog like Caveat Lector, where Dorothea Salo writes about all sorts of non-LIS stuff, like her participation in role playing games, in which I really have no interest. It’s nice to be able to separate out the professional from the personal, in the case of people with whom you have no personal relationship.
Good point, and I agree, but it was a reader request, and if it weren’t for my readers… 🙂 Plus it was easy to do once Richard showed the way. They’re there if someone wants them, and the main feed is there for the folks who think as you and I do. (let me know if you want me to start posting pictures of my kids here too)
It was me. I want category feeds. Thank you. I did put the bug in Richard’s ear. I still don’t see how Richard did it, but after I read further down Richard’s post and saw that the link to this post, I was very happy to find that I just hadn’t looked far enough down your list of links on the side to see that you did have category feeds. Thank you ever so much.
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