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For some reaason my feed has not updated my last two posts. I have not changed any settings and cannot figure out what is wrong. I have an RSS set up through Feedburner and Atom set up through Blogger. Any ideas?

Steve, we are trying to follow-up with you via email. Can you email your blog url or feedburner username to feedback at feedburner dot com? We don't seem to be experiencing any issues that we're aware of, but we will certainly investigate the moment we have your information.

Folks, FeedBurner supports the XML-RPC ping mechanism so you can update your FeedBurner feed instantly. We wrote about this here a little while ago ( //www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/000478.html ), and we'll update the FAQ, so that this information is more easily accessible.

Hi!
It looks that your service is failing to produce correct (XML-RPC valid) DateTime fields. Dates like "Tue, 21 Oct 2003 24:56:21 -0500" aren't correct, it should be something like "2004-07-31T23:57:45+03:00". Perhaps it is an issue specific to SmartFeeds.
Regards.

I have a question or two about using your service with blogger.com.

I understand that you recommend supporting auto-discovery by using multiple elements, one for each format, all pointing to the SmartFeed URL.

Should those go inside or outside the BlogSiteFeed element? I can't figure out from the Blogger.com documentation what the BlogSiteFeed tag actually *does*. Is it just for forcing evaluation of the $BlogSiteFeedURL$ variable? Can I just ignore the existence of when I point people to my FeedBurner feed?

Also, is Amphetadesk 0.93.1 on your supported list? It tells me it can't determine the type of http://feeds.feedburner.com/thesecuritymentor.

Thanks,

Fred

Luci,

In the syndication world, there are a couple of different ways of specifying dates. In the RSS 2.0 family of feeds, pubDate is formatted using the RFC 822 format as specified here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#ltpubdategtSubelementOfLtitemgt . RSS 1.0 and Atom use the ISO 8601 format you mention.

This is one of the nice things about SmartFeed -- we'll make sure we convert the dates to the appropriate format for whatever feed format.

Thanks for the note!

Fred,

First, for the $BlogSiteFeedURL$ variable: I think you can safely ignore that and just use your FeedBurner URL in there instead.

Second, I can't believe AmphetaDesk support slipped through the cracks for us! We've added an entry to our database of readers indicating that AmphetaDesk does not support Atom, so SmartFeed should start to work properly with that reader.

Thanks for your comments!

Eric,

Thanks for the informative and quick reply!

Fred

Am I wrong to assume that, even if feedburner may be a (real) good alternative to Blogger's Atom feed, by taking out the original Blogger's feed I'm cutting myself off from *all* current subscribers? That is, they will have to re-subscribe to my blog through feedsburner's feed- if they even care to do so, which may become quite a downside...

Thanks

When I click on the feedburner link on my blog, I get this.

HTTP Status 404 - The feed uri is not found
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type Status report

message The feed uri is not found

description The requested resource (The feed uri is not found) is not available.
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Apache Tomcat/5.0

What have I done wrong?

Thanks

I just surfed in this great place. But it’s really a pleasure being here. Go on
with this good work.

I just signed up for SmartFeed using blogger.com.

I have SmartFeed looking at my atom.xml and used the link provided in the publicize section to add the feed to MyYahoo... however, when I try, Yahoo says that it can't find a valid RSS file.

I thought SmartFeed would convert atom.xml to RSS.

Am I missing something?
Thanks!
Brett

Really good work. I found a lot of profound information which can help me to go on. Thanks for all this input.

Is it possible to go back and make changes to the choices I made when setting-up my Feedburner feed (e.g. number of words to use in summary)?

I ask because my blog hosts RSS resends the feed everytime a comment is made. So, if a post gets 15 comments people reading via (e.g.) Bloglines see the post 15 times.

I was hoping I could solve this with Feedburner, but it does it too (because, I guess, my other feed tells it to). Is there any way round this? Do I/can I go back and change something?

Thanks for a *great* service, btw!

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