December 2, 2005 at 9:29 am · Filed under Miscellaneous
I haven’t been posting to my linkblog recently because of the title/description duplication problem with the recent-links plug-in through FeedBurner. Eric Lunt, the FeedBurner CTO, pointed out the duplication is caused by the content:encoded element. Thanks, Eric.
If you have this same problem, edit your wp-recent-links-rss2.php file and look for the following code (towards the end of the file):
echo '< ![CDATA['.$new_link.' - '.$raw_caption.']]>'."\n";
The use of $raw_caption here is the problem. Replace this line with:
echo '< ![CDATA['.$new_link.' - '.$desc_rss.']]>'."\n";
December 1, 2005 at 7:39 am · Filed under .NET, Web 2.0
In his post, Off to go to Dublin, Disconnects between Blogosphere and Real World, Robert Scoble asks if there are disconnects between blogs and the real world.
He cites as an example the outpouring of enthusiasm for the Visual Studio / SQL Server / Biztalk launches and the lack of blogging about these products. I know I did it (VS drink menu, anyone?).
But Robert, there are easily hundreds of bloggers that have hyped up these launch events and blog about these products every single day.
Maybe these don’t appear on the general blogger “radar” because the vast majority of these Microsoft-focused bloggers are not tagging nor are they really interacting with the Web 2.0 blogosphere.
If I am right, Robert could do a great service to Microsoft and its Web 2.0 push by helping to better integrate the vast Microsoft blogging community with the rest of the blogosphere. For example, there are several siloed Microsoft-enthusiast blogger communities. Wouldn’t it be cool if those sites made it easy (or automatic) for their users to tag their blogs with Technorati tags? Couldn’t this increase the awareness of the general blogosphere about Microsoft and all their cool development tools?
Robert, what you think?
Tags: .NET, blog, Microsoft, Web2.0
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