Planet Geospatial and Blogger
September 19, 2006 9 Comments
I’ve noticed that whatever Google is doing, they are screwing up the Planet GS feeds. Even using FeedBurner, the issues still rear their ugly head and the new beta Blogger doesn’t seem to matter at all. Even non Blogger feeds such as The Earth is Square and Ed Parson’s blog are being screwed up by them. I’ve tried everything in my power to get it working, but I’m at a loss. I know it is blogger because of the ASCII errors I’m getting and the simple fact that if I remove every Blogger feed, the darn thing works like a charm.
So if you notice your blog missing from the hourly Planet Geospatial build, thank Blogger. There is not much I can do at this point at least until I find some time to debug some more.
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I only subscribe to Planet Geo and not individual feeds anymore so I really appreciate your work. Who is involved with this project?
I’m the only one involved with PGS, though Sean Gillies has been helpful.
Actually the only thing I’ve noticed wrong is that there seems to be quite a bit of political posts in Planet Geospatial these days. Totally out of scope IMO to GIS.
I’ve been less attentive over the last week or so (sorry!) but I have not noticed anything political. That being said, PlanetGS is pretty much at the mercy of the bloggers to keep things “on topic”. You can always try to filter things on your own with Sean’s Greasemonkey stuff – http://zcologia.com/news/114
I’ve noticed it as well and I’ll agree with David that it’s really off-topic for PlanetGS. Of course, it is up to individual bloggers to keep things on topic (or provide alternate RSS feeds that just aggregate their GIS posts)
Maybe a nudge with the 2×4 of knowledge we can just get the Blogger users to use feedburner and maybe resolve the issue.
Unfortunately, as soon as you widen your blogging lens beyond vectors and pixels, politics enters the picture. It’s our duty as bloggers to tell it like it is. That said, cheerleading for a particular political party ought to be done in a separate feed if only because it’s boring and predictable.
Hi James,
I managed to repair the AnyGeo blogger RSS feed – looks like all the new Blogger Beta feeds got mangled! Recall the old feed would simply point to an xml file… ie blogname/rss.xml etc… well, that file went away with the “upgrade” to beta. My fix was to go through Feedblitz and re-generate the blog’s Ping via their service. The result is a valid feed that works! See http://feeds.feedburner.com/Anygeo-AnythingGeospatial
oh.. While doing it I also added a new RSS feed for the free gis data blog that i added a couple of weeks back – see http://gisdata.blogspot.com/ – feed is located at http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeGisDataImageryGeoblog