MSDN gets blogs
Sara Williams, MSDN’s general manager, announced today that MSDN will host blogs for Microsoft bloggers at blogs.msdn.com. All the blogs from GotDotNet will migrate to this new URL, and the blogs will dual-home to addresses at weblogs.asp.net.
Sara also says that blog entries hosted on MSDN’s dev centers get more clickthroughs than editorially programmed headlines. Interesting...
Hello to my 10 subscribers
Dave has been steadily rolling out new features in his OPML aggregation site, feeds.scripting.com, including:
- Customizable coffee mug icons to allow you to do a one-click subscribe to feeds in the aggregator of your choice. (I used the template
feed://[[xmlUrl]]to allow one click subscriptions for NetNewsWire.) - Other people’s feeds: Who are the blogerati reading? (Note to Scoble: d00d, 626 feeds and no love for me?) For disclosure, here’s my list, though it’s about a week old. Which reminds me...
- ...I need to start publishing my OPML file on my site, so that feeds. can get the updates as I make them. This comes from a new feature: if you upload your OPML as a URL rather than a file, feeds polls the file periodically for changes.
- Who subscribes to my feed: This is probably the killer app for the site. Though inclusion is voluntary and incomplete, you get a picture of the readers who see everything you write through RSS. In my case, that would be the ten readers I alluded to in the title. (Hi, folks.)
If you’re not already participating in this community, and you use an aggregator, go, go, join. It’s getting cooler every day.
Last updated Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 3:30:51 PM.
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