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Making the most of blog comments: Part 4 - Do people read comments via RSS?
I'm doing a series of posts about the way that people implement comments on blog sites. I started by looking at the methods that can be used to promote comments prominently to users, and then undertook a survey of 100 blogs to get a feel for which ways were popular. I found, thanks in part to the growth of Wordpress as a platform, that distributing RSS feeds of comments was being increasingly used, either on a 'per blog' or...

Read the full post - Published February 26, 2008 in Blogging, Bloglines, Google, RSS

Extra URLs for the Guardian Gamesblog in Bloglines
Whilst I was doing my recent survey of the Web 2.0 features on British newspapers, I spotted one or two quirks which I wanted to highlight. This one is actually more of a quirk in user behaviour and Bloglines than in the publishing paper. Bloglines shows all the different feed URLs it has stored for a particular page's RSS feeds. Usually it is just the variations between Atom or RSS 2.0 available from the publisher. Occasionally you'll see some errant...

Read the full post - Published June 14, 2007 in Bloglines, Games, Media, Newspapers, RSS, The Guardian

Newspapers 2.0: OPML file for British newspaper RSS feeds
Over the last couple of weeks I've been looking at some of the subscriber numbers in Bloglines to the RSS feeds published by British newspapers. Some of the feeds have been easier to find than others - as the quality of signposting on the various sites differs. I ended up subscribed to a whopping 2,316 feeds - of which, admittedly, 1,968 were individual author feeds belonging to The Guardian's Comment Is Free. In the course of subscribing to the feeds,...

Read the full post - Published June 7, 2007 in Bloglines, Media, Newspapers, RSS, Web

Bloglines subscriptions numbers and OPML file for The Guardian's Comment Is Free site
I've mentioned a couple of times in the last few weeks the debate about whether The Guardian is entitled to call their "Comment Is Free" site a 'group blog', or whether it is just a random assortment of opinion columns from the paper held together by a handful of regular contributors. What can't be doubted is that the site presents itself in a very richly featured blog format, which includes the provision of RSS feeds on a per author basis....

Read the full post - Published June 1, 2007 in Bloglines, Media, Newspapers, RSS, The Guardian, Web

Roaming web-based RSS aggregation from Bloglines
I think I may have found my solution to RSS aggregation. I have tried a couple of software solutions, but none have done the trick for me. This is not least because I work across a variety of physical machines and networks. I have a PC at home. I have had, until the other week, a PC at work. And I have a laptop which I use at work connected to the LAN. Or at home connected to the...

Read the full post - Published August 25, 2003 in Bloglines, RSS