Comment Feeds
December 29, 2005
Steven Cohen pleads with library bloggers to offer feeds for the comments made on their posts. Sadly, LiB does not offer a comment feed. I can’t find a way to "turn it on" in Typepad, and haven’t had any luck finding anything through Googling for hacks. Apparently there’s some way to parse the Atom feed and grab comments, but I’m not techie enough to figure that one out. Does anyone know how to add a comment feed to a Typepad blog?
December 31st, 2005 at 1:16 pm
Being an idiot without coffee today… I posted this comment on Steven’s site when I should have posted it here:
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No hack required. That is if you have access to create a new index template. If you have a pro account with Typepad you can do it easily.
Just create a new index template, name it Comments Feed (or something), give it an Output File name of comments.xml and put in the code.
I can email it to you if you like. I tried putting it in the comment, but the code just gets eaten up for the most part.
January 1st, 2006 at 9:31 am
Here’s how you do it. Now, with Code!
January 2nd, 2006 at 12:38 pm
These are great instructions. I almost got them to work, but now quite. See my comment on Matthew Oliphant’s blog about this. If anyone can help me troubleshoot, I’d really appreciate it.
Earlier today I posted on my new blog about conversational media, The Right Conversation, some observations on the difficulties with following blog-comment conversations. It seems to me that if you offer a comment feed and then plug that feed in to all the major feed-aggregation services like Technorati and Feedster, then the content of your blog’s comments becomes as findable as your posts.
Which would only enhance the conversation, I think. After all, it’s hard to join a conversation if you can’t easily discover that it’s happening, right?
- Amy Gahran
RightConversation.com
Contentious.com
January 4th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Sometime this week I’ll try Matthew’s solution (along with additional suggestions from a few other people who e-mailed me privately). Thanks to everyone, and the fruit of your efforts may be comment feeds on LiB. Wish me luck.