Mokka mit Schlag » Blogging

Apparently it’s now all about Robert. When someone links to the New York Times instead of him, it’s a direct personal assault, not that we happen to read the New York Times more than Scoble so we never even noticed his original piece, or that we prefer a well-written text piece to a long streaming video.

P.S. Scoble was more interesting when he was blogging from inside Microsoft. That at least gave him a perspective most people did not have. Now he’s just one of dozens of independent bloggers.

I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0.7 to close various security holes (though I very much doubt this release closes the last of them. WordPress is still breaking one of the most fundamental rules of HTTP: Thou shalt not use GET for unsafe operations.) Holler if you notice anything funky.

I’ve managed to get the full text feeds going again. However the paragraph breaks and some other markup is getting lost. More work is needed. I’ve also managed to put one Google ad back on the site without obviously breaking Safari like the old ads did. Still, for the time being most longer articles can be more easily read in a browser on the site than in your feed reader.

Update: The full text feeds should now be fully functional with all markup intact. Holler if you notice any problems. I still need to check the category specific feeds and the comment feeds.

John Cowan suggested I should be using Atom 1.0 on this site, and Adam Constabaris told me I could do it with a plug-in, even if WordPress is severely lagging on Atom 1.0 support. I’ve now installed the plug-in which is going to change all my feeds to Atom 1.0. There are no more RSS or Atom 0.3 feeds. The old URLs all still work–cool URLs don’t change, of course–but they now serve Atom 1.0 insead of 0.3 or RSS.
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I’ve implemented a significantly revised theme here on Mokka mit Schlag. The main change was switching to a Holy Grail style of positioning. This works much better on Safari, and somewhat better on Firefox. However the big change was removing the Google adds from the sidebar. They likely will return at some point. However, the revelation that finally enabled me to fix the Safari problems was that it was precisely the AdSense iframe that was getting in my way.
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I was fiddling around with my Amazon blog today when I noticed a new link to an RSS feed. This URL now allows you to subscribe to my Amazon feed in your feed reader of choice:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/id/AYXOSXMBUAT1Y/rss.xml

At first glance, this appears to be a full-text feed. There are also Atom 0.3 feeds, though those feeds don’t seem to have anything the RSS feeds don’t. Amazon’s a little behind the curve here. In 2006, I’d suggest going straight to Atom 1.0 and skipping the whole RSS mess.

Here are the feeds for some other authors who blog on Amazon:
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