Sipsey Street Irregulars: I don't even know what an RSS feed is.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

I don't even know what an RSS feed is.

A reader sends in email:

I generally (try to) read your site through the RSS feed, so I can carry the essays with me and peruse them at my leisure. However, recently, many your feed entries have been just the "Doctrine of the Three Percent", with no text. The last actual post I got was the 14th of June entry on the Peggy Noonan article. All the article titles show up in the feed just fine, and the preview of the article is there, but opening the article just shows the Doctrine. Feeds from other sites seem to be coming in fine, so I'm suspecting something is getting chewed up by whatever software creates your RSS feed updates.

Anybody have any ideas on how to fix this problem?

17 comments:

Brett said...: I read this blog via an RSS feed in my Outlook and all is good.; June 19, 2013 at 11:59 AM
Darren said...: Which RSS reader are you using?

I use Newblur and Feedly and his posts show up just fine.; June 19, 2013 at 12:08 PM
markofafreeman said...: The problem is yours, Mike, it's the readers. I had been using Google's Reader to subscribe to the RSS feed of your blog (it's automatic for any blogspot blog...you didn't need to do anything for it to work). Since Google is killing Reader next month, I've switched to Feedly. No problems with either Google Reader nor Feedly. Your reader with the problem will need to be more specific. The problem is not with your blog, but with whatever RSS reader software he is using, or with the subscription link he gave it. The correct link (or at least the one that works with Google Reader and Feedly) is /sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Hope that helps.; June 19, 2013 at 12:10 PM
flacmonkey said...: Your blog has two Atom feeds and an RSS feed. It sounds like he some how has gotten subscribed to one of the Atom feeds, which is only the comments on articles.

The reader should try subscribing to one of the other feeds on your blog and see if that fixes the problem.; June 19, 2013 at 12:14 PM
Paul X said...: I don't know what an RSS feed is either, but I'm guessing an email to the blogspot.com (blogger.com?) support folks is in order...; June 19, 2013 at 12:19 PM
Sammy said...: RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication", and is what many people use to read news / blog sites.

Since you're using Blogger, they put out your RSS feed automatically for you.

However, I don't think that you are having RSS issues, since I've used Google Reader's and am now using Netvibes' RSS reader and have experienced no problems.; June 19, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Anonymous said...: RSS feed is like a pod cast

Rich Site Summary

includes full or summarized text

RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based. The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed's URI or by clicking a feed icon in a web browser that initiates the subscription process.; June 19, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Skeezix Roscoe said...: FYI, your RSS feed has worked for me over the time in question. The problem is on his end. Suggest that he delete the RSS feed bookmark and re-subscribe.; June 19, 2013 at 12:59 PM
Anonymous said...: I don't think anything is wrong with your RSS feeds.

I use this one, and it works:

/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

~ jcard21; June 19, 2013 at 12:59 PM
Skeezix Roscoe said...: FYI, your RSS feed has worked for me over the time in question. The problem is on his end. Suggest that he delete the RSS feed bookmark and re-subscribe.; June 19, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Anonymous said...: My feed is working fine; June 19, 2013 at 1:43 PM
Anonymous said...: I don't know what an RSS feed is either but I have noticed that your site does not load correctly on my tablet. Yours is the only site I have trouble with. Pictures come through just fine but not the text.

b; June 19, 2013 at 1:50 PM
Anonymous said...: Could be the RSS aggregator that the individual is using.

I switched from google reader to Feedly and see every blog entry in its entirety. I also checked NetVibes and NewsBlur and they seem to feed correctly.; June 19, 2013 at 1:57 PM
Anonymous said...: Join the No More Names Rally on Saturday in Raleigh
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Mayors Against Illegal Guns

To
No More Names

No --

This Saturday at 10:00 AM, the No More Names bus tour will be stopping in Raleigh to read out the names of those killed by gun violence and to demand action from our leaders.

Will you join us?
Yes -- I can make it to the rally!

I can't make it to the rally, but I'll support the No More Names Tour by pitching in $33 or more.
Here are the details:

What: No More Names Rally

When: Saturday, June 22nd, 10:00 AM

Where: Moore Square Park
200 South Blount Street
Raleigh, NC 27601

The bus departed from Newtown, CT six months after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, commemorating those killed with guns -- and determined to turn the tide on six months of inaction from Congress.

In each state where the tour stops, it's up to supporters like you to speak up for laws that protect our communities from future tragedies. So please join us at the rally on Saturday.

Thanks for all you do,

Mayors Against Illegal Guns

P.S. -- We are planning to read the names of those killed by gun violence in 25 states across the country. But the bus will only keep running with your support. Please pitch in $33 or more today:

https://donate.demandaction.org/donate/NMNDonation1/; June 19, 2013 at 3:45 PM
Anonymous said...: A feed is an archive of blog posts or news posts.

For example, here are the feed pages for Sipsey Street Irregulars and PoliceMag.com, respectively:

/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

http://www.policemag.com/rss/all.aspx

A feed reader does three extremely productive things for you:

1) It will archive as many feeds as you want in one place, and

2) It will let you know which feeds have new posts since you last checked

3) You can search your feeds for keywords (names, phrases, etc.)

It's difficult to believe you are as productive as you are not having been using a feed reader.

It will be interesting to see what you make of it.

Here is some more information about feed readers:

How RSS Works
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/rss.htm/printable

Note:

1) Some feed readers limit the amount of posts it will archive for any one feed, so depending on which one you use, you may have to archive your feeds, manually.

2) The feed reader will begin archiving posts for you the moment you subscribe to a feed. This means that your archive history will only go back to the moment you subscribed.

Thank you for your work. Have fun.; June 19, 2013 at 4:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Probably another way for BIG BROTHER to see what you are looking at online. Don't worry since O'Bummer has reassured us that he is only looking for those EVIL TERRORISTS and not at those nice and peaceful folks who read the CONSTITUTION and believe in the BILL OF RIGHTS.; June 19, 2013 at 11:52 PM
Sixgun Strategic said...: Ok, so I'm the reader who sent him the email. I'm using RSSDemon on an Android tablet, and the feed URL I am using (which was automatically picked up when I clicked the RSS icon), is

sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

just as many others are using. I added the ?alt=rss and I'll see if that makes the difference.

Why it would do anything other than grab whatever the RSS system is outputting seems strange to me. I'll have to dig into the app to see why it might grab something else. At least now more folks are learning about how stuff like this works.

And oddly enough, of all the posts that downloaded for me, this was the only one that actually came through correctly.; June 20, 2013 at 12:26 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

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"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

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And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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I don't even know what an RSS feed is.

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