Comments on: What should be in my blog feed?

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:57:41 +0000

OK, here is my latest feed tweak. I took out the del.icio.us feeds. I restricted the Flickr feeds just to a certain tag. And I will look into a lifestream RSS feed, but I can’t imagine WHO would want to follow it. My family doesn’t even read my blog! LOL

But I’ll check out Ziki and Tumblr, Jack. And thanks, everyone, for the feedback. You speak up, I try to respond!

By: Jack Vinson

Jack Vinson — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:02:24 +0000

I’d lose the Links and the Flickr pictures. If people are really interested in your del.icio.us links, then provide the RSS feed for them. The same for Flickr.

Or set up a lifestream RSS feed that grabs everything you publish and re-publishes as RSS in one place. Ziki and Tumblr both do this.

By: Bev Trayner

Bev Trayner — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:13:28 +0000

I like getting just your blogposts. It throws me to get the flickr pics because I also get them in my flickr feed.

I have kept my old Feedburner feed from Phronesis. But I notice that:

a) the feed is still called Phronesis (which is an invisible thing for most people and important for some);

b) the new site feed doesn’t include the del.icio.us links and a couple of other things that appear in Phronesis. That does give me time to think if I really need to include them in posts for new subscribers.

By: Karoli

Karoli — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:06:26 +0000

Hi Nancy,

I lost your feed for awhile when you switched. Had you not twittered a blog post it might have even been longer before I found it again. I like the delicious links and the posts, of course, The photos, not so much, because I also have a Flickr feed that comes into my RSS reader with new photos from my Flickr contacts, so it duplicates.

These days, possibly because of a renewed focus on politics, I’m feeling overwhelmed and over-read, so anything that drops those feeds down to something manageable but still sends me the awesome-ness that your posts bring is a wonderful thing.

By: Sarah Stewart

Sarah Stewart — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:06:26 +0000

I think this question will put you in the ‘not going to please all the people all the time’ category. I would prefer not to have the Flickr posts in my reader. The other thing I don’t like is del.icio.us links. But thats just me. I just delete these posts automatically so don’t change anything because of what I say.

By: Sue Wolff

Sue Wolff — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:14:54 +0000

Nancy, I have been following your blog for over a year and was one of those who lost your feed for awhile. I’m glad to have it back now with all the changes. I like the variety of things you post, including the photos. For instance when I landed on the jowl bacon, it reinforced what I’m learning about your sense of humor and take on culture. I hope you will keep it all coming.