Maybe Google’s Blogger shouldn’t have come out of beta just yet…
I’ve noticed over the last week or so that some of the Blogger-hosted blogs that I subscribe to via Bloglines have disappeared. I did a test post over on my Blogger account that I never use. Chris also mentioned something about this today.
Blogger’s been encouraging people to switch over and use their Google accounts as a login and switch to the new and improved Blogger. That’s all well and good, but it seems that something’s not quite right with the RSS feeds.
First off, it sucks that RSS feeds can’t be automatically redirected. I’m pretty sure that there are ways to do this, but Blogger doesn’t seem too worried about helping with it.
Up until recently, I’ve subscribed to the RSS feeds of Blogger-hosted blogs at http://blogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?bsuser=blogname. In fact, Bloglines even gives you a shortcut in their add subscription interface under the Communities section that allows you just to enter the Blogger username of the blog and they do the rest. The problem is that this shortcut still points to the old feeds. The new format seems to be http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. Hitting that URL directly returns the RSS XML. If you try to subscribe to that URL in Bloglines, it lets you add the subscription, but you don’t get any new updates. Adding the new RSS URLs in Google Reader works just fine, not surprising, since Google obviously owns the reader and they own Blogger.
I sent an e-mail to Bloglines asking about the problem. I’m not sure that there’s anything to be done from Blogger’s end, but we’ll see. I’ll update if I hear something. I can’t be the only one having this problem.
If they don’t get it fixed soon, it could shove me into Google Reader’s waiting arms. I tried them a few months ago and decided to stay with Bloglines. It might be time for another look. Coincidentally, Lifehacker has an article touting Google Reader today.
[tags]blogger, bloglines, rss, feeds, googlereader, google[/tags]
I didn’t have too much invested in this year’s game. I rarely do. I was pushing for the Bears since they were underdogs, had two recent UT alums (Vasher and Benson), and I think Peyton Manning is way overexposed. Apparently, neither team plays well in the rain. I’m no football aficionado, but Rex threw up some serious lame duck passes, even I might’ve been able to intercept a few of them.
The highlight was definitely the halftime show. Prince was great. The silhouetted image of the Purple One with his symbol guitar or as Defamer put it “a twenty foot demon schlong” certainly trumps Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction of a few years ago; the only time I wished that I was Justin Timberlake. The sound during Prince’s performance was terrible. His guitar was alternatingly too loud and too quiet. The Boy was impressed with the sound he got from the Stratocaster. He assumed it was the guitar itself that accounted for the genius sound coming out of it, a mistake of many a rock novice. He’ll learn. Time to break out some Prince and Hendrix to continue his education. I was pleasantly surprised that he chose to weave the Foo Fighter’s “Best of You” into the medley although I’m curious what made him choose it. I still regret missing the chance to see Prince in high school. I think I was supposed to go with Joe C. and he got sick. I can’t remember why I just didn’t go myself.
Update (2007.02.07): Duh. I thought of this right after I posted, but didn’t get a chance to update until now. Foo Fighters covered “Darling Nikki” on the tour before the last one. I think I have an mp3 somewhere and I know 101X has played it before. I’d still like to know if Dave Grohl or another member of the band actually talked to Prince about it though. That’d be cool.
[tags]superbowl, prince, foofighters[/tags]
With SXSW keeping this year’s band list close to their chest, Austinist has cobbled together a pretty good list of the bands that are likely to appear this year.
I saw a post yesterday from Pitchfork mentioning Mastodon and Thurston Moore among others. Those two make my list of possibilities. Brooklyn Vegan and Done Waiting are also good sources for your SXSW music needs.
<shameless plug>My band is playing the Get Hip showcase on 3/16 at Habana Calle 6 with local pals, Ugly Beats, and Cynics among others.</shameless plug>
The new William Gibson book comes out soon.
*does happy dance*
[tags]williamgibson, spookcountry[/tags]
Central Market now has Stone IPA in 6 packs as well as the 22oz bottles. With this new development, I’m optimistic that we’ll one day get Stone Pale Ale. Is it sad that this really excites me? Probably.