Comments on: Webfeed Grab Bag http://www.contentious.com/2005/01/24/webfeed-grab-bag/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:21:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Marketing Loop Blog http://www.contentious.com/2005/01/24/webfeed-grab-bag/#comment-9903 Marketing Loop Blog Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:46:17 +0000 #comment-9903 <trackback /><strong>Recent RSS and Blog News</strong> Amy Gahran, editor of Contentious Blog has a list of interesting RSS and blog related news and articles. On the top of the list is a link to Alex Barnett, an Online Customer Experience Manager blog. There is a matrix that compares the use of e-mail ... Recent RSS and Blog News
Amy Gahran, editor of Contentious Blog has a list of interesting RSS and blog related news and articles.

On the top of the list is a link to Alex Barnett, an Online Customer Experience Manager blog. There is a matrix that compares the use of e-mail …

]]> By: Antone Roundy http://www.contentious.com/2005/01/24/webfeed-grab-bag/#comment-9870 Antone Roundy Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:57:58 +0000 #comment-9870 As the developer and maintainer of a webfeed directory, I am NOT impressed by IceRocket. I've had a large number of feeds submitted from there, and have the following complaints: 1) The items in the feed are all linked to the same URL--not to individual post pages or specific anchors within the page. (This may not be true of all of the feeds, but it is true of all the feeds I've checked). 2) The feeds have all been submitted to the same category, and it's virtually always the wrong category. I'm assuming that IceRocket has a form for submitting feeds to many directories at once, and that they're not asking their users to set things specific to particular directories. Makes sense for their users, but it's a nuisance for me. 3) Many of the feeds look like advertisements in RSS format, not real feeds (ie, they don't look like they're going to be periodically updated--they're just static documents). Obviously, this is the fault of the people making the feeds, not the service, but it turns me off to the service. 4) Somebody using their service keeps submitting feeds that appear almost identical to feeds they've already submitted. For now, when I see the rss.icerocket.com URL, I'm immediately prejudiced against approving the feed. As the developer and maintainer of a webfeed directory, I am NOT impressed by IceRocket. I’ve had a large number of feeds submitted from there, and have the following complaints:

1) The items in the feed are all linked to the same URL–not to individual post pages or specific anchors within the page. (This may not be true of all of the feeds, but it is true of all the feeds I’ve checked).

2) The feeds have all been submitted to the same category, and it’s virtually always the wrong category. I’m assuming that IceRocket has a form for submitting feeds to many directories at once, and that they’re not asking their users to set things specific to particular directories. Makes sense for their users, but it’s a nuisance for me.

3) Many of the feeds look like advertisements in RSS format, not real feeds (ie, they don’t look like they’re going to be periodically updated–they’re just static documents). Obviously, this is the fault of the people making the feeds, not the service, but it turns me off to the service.

4) Somebody using their service keeps submitting feeds that appear almost identical to feeds they’ve already submitted.

For now, when I see the rss.icerocket.com URL, I’m immediately prejudiced against approving the feed.

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