blogging on blogging
It only took, like, 4 posts and I'm back to THE FORBIDDEN TOPIC. I'll sum it up in one entry so we don't have to "go there" again.
Line Breaks:
I'm using moveable type, but the RSS feed it generates skips all line breaks. I've even added in
tags, but this just generates a space. Yes, it's set to "convert line breaks" which apparently just solves the problem for the html. Any clues on how to fix this for the RSS?
OPML to HTML:
Lots of people have build converters in XSLT, but they didn't work for me, plain vanilla mt config, which is not all that unusual. Should I build it myself?
NewsGator:
Got this working, all feeds imported, but the feed name thing is baffling. What gives if you're subscribed to 2 feeds, both with the same name? It merges them together. This is wrong, it should generate some sort of dup filename convention (such as _domain)
Title:
Amazing that so many feeds do not have full posts. And how hard it is to get it to that state! I'm not sure whether to bounce the folks that sindycate partial posts, or read them in html and use newsgator as an update indicator only. Then, for all the lovely stuff in MT (description, title, site name, etc) it's only the title that comes down into newsgator. So I hand paste in my (increasingly relevant, I'm sure) description name to come down in the title. No wonder the techie bloggers are aswamp in format flame wars!