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I am a syndicated writer. No kiddin'.
[ Posted by Dan on January 30, 2003 | 6 Comments ]

I've started telling my friends that I'm a syndicated writer, and they laugh at me for being a dork and saying something stupid like that, but it's true! Heh. I'm not seeing the sort of traffic that Mark or Cory get, but it's enough to change the way I write (for more people than just me).

Still though, the fact reamins that I am indeed a syndicated writer. There has been a recent jump in requests for my XML feed (up to 700 a day from 400 a month ago) and this site has appeared in another site (sort of). The American Press Institute (which sounds important, but I had never heard of them until last week) ran a story about RSS and NetNewsWire. In a screenshot for the app, In My Experience appears as a subscribed feed. That's ego surfing at its best, and I find it funny to see me in the same list as C|Net.

Also, beginning this week, Syndirella (a Windows equiv to NetNewsWire) has been showing up as a referrer. Welcome Syndirella users, I hope the feed is working out well for you.

Syndirella is a really nice little app. Dan, the feed works well, but there's an image that isn't showing up inside the feed. It's source is about:blank/images/comment_button.gif.

-Posted by Joshua Kaufman on January 30, 2003 11:06 AM

Very interesting. I have an img with src set to /images/comment_button.gif and an anchor around that image which sends the uesr to the comment for for the entry. Syndirella seems to be mucking around a bit on img src's (?).

-Posted by Dan on January 30, 2003 11:14 AM

Its probably because the image has a relative path, if you put the full url it would probably work fine. Considering that RSS is designed for distribution, its probably a good idea anyways since you have no idea what base url a reader would use (I don't believe this behavior is specified).

-Posted by Eric on January 30, 2003 11:27 AM

Good call, change made.

-Posted by Dan on January 30, 2003 11:42 AM

Doesn't RSS support some sort of base path attribute?

-Posted by JC on January 30, 2003 01:17 PM

While we're talking about comments, you might want to also start using the comments tag in RSS 2.0. I believe Syndirella supports it. Does NetNewsWire?
http://backend.userland.com/weblogComments

-Posted by Joshua Kaufman on January 30, 2003 03:32 PM

Comment posting has been turned off because I don't have enough time and will to deal with the constant comment spamming. I'm very sorry and will fix this sometime soon (soon = before 2004 ends).