Awake

Awake's Friendly News Feed

Now that I've got a Tiger-ed Safari which has integrated inconspicuously into the browser's Bookmarks a place to store and view news feeds (aka RSS feeds) from other sites. This means that you could painlessly skim the latest news from the BBC or quickly see if your friend has finally updated his or her blog. To make sure Awake's feed was Safari-friendly, I went over to Feedburner and got my presently formatted RDF+XML feed converted to a browser-friendly format. Pretty cool!

So here's Awake's Feed.

Now go get your news feed fixed up all perty! All you need is the Web address of the "Syndicate this site" link. So click on that link in your blog, copy it, then paste it into Feeburner's form. So easy!

Update: For Movable Type users like Shawn and myself in which the default template already has news feeds (RSS and RDF) integrated into the templates, there's one more change to make once you get a RSS feed from Feedburner.

Near the top of your Index Template, replace...

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://www.sleepyheadcity.com/awake/blog/index.rdf" />
<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://www.sleepyheadcity.com/awake/blog/rsd.xml" />

...with your Feeburner URL. Awake's looks like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Awake" />

When you look at your blog in Safari, there will be a RSS icon in the address bar (where the URL is) that will point to your new Feedburner feed (and therefore work properly).

Hope that helps.