David Goldfarb writes: >From: Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com> >>Hmm. Reminds me -- I should probably see if Making Light is being >>syndicated to LJ, or can be. >I just looked, and there *is* a <http://www.livejournal.com/users/makinglight/> Cool! >...but all it has is the first couple of lines of text for each entry, >accompanied by a hyperlink to the entry itself on nielsenhayden.com. Even cooler! >You would get to read everything only on very short entries, and also >you would miss out on the comment threads, which are often marvelous. >I'm not sure why anyone would actually bother. Because it lets you know when the site is updated, of course. If they were longer, you might be tempted to read the entire article on LJ, and then you -would- miss the comment threads; this way, you've got a notification (with a bit of topic) when she updates, and can then click and see the article at your leisure. This is also how I set up my unauthorized Megatokyo (a popular, and good webcomic) rss feed -- it just pulls the name of the strip and a link to the page where the strip is located, thus giving notification of when the site is updated without either messing with the creator's theoreticla rights or encouraging people to miss the ads and rants on the site itself. -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme at io.com) "I've been teaching |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\I'm sorry if I kept him out too late"--Vlad Taltos '---''(_/--' (_/-'