Bradbury Software's RSS Feeds

I recently added a feeds page to my site which lists all of Bradbury Software's feeds. If you're using FeedDemon or another aggregator which supports the feed protocol, just click a FEED button to subscribe:

Blog Feeds

  FeedDemon Tips
  TopStyle Tips
  Nick Bradbury's Blog
  Nick Bradbury's "Dexter" Comic Strip
  Comments feed for Nick's blog

Product FAQs

  FeedDemon FAQ
  TopStyle FAQ

Official Support Forums

  Announcements
  FeedDemon Feature Requests
  FeedDemon Support
  TopStyle Feature Requests
  TopStyle Support

User-supported Forums

  Web Authoring Forum
  Open Discussion

Comments

[kayode okeyode]

I am getting "feed://" isn't a registered protocol on Mozilla

However, I managed to subscribe to dexter with bloglines by omitting "feed://"

[Anne]

Why this feed protocol? It doesn't make sense to tell something about the file in the URI scheme/protocol. We have MIME types for such things.

Reiventing the wheel has been done too much lately, imho.

[Nick Bradbury]

Anne, reinventing the wheel is sometimes necessary when it keeps going flat. MIME types aren't a viable solution for feed subscriptions (see http://pirate.typepad.com/blog/2003/09/problems_with_m.html ). The feed protocol was invented to provide something that could actually work. If you're aware of another solution that works in practice rather than just in theory, then there are many aggregator developers who would like to know about it.

[Lenny Domnitser]

If application/x-bittorrent works great, why not application/atom+xml or application/rss+xml?

[Erki Esken]

Nick, where's the OPML file? ;)

[Nick Bradbury]

Erki, the OPML for my feeds is built into FeedDemon as the "Bradbury Software" channel group, and you can also get it from http://www.bradsoft.com/feeds/opml/Bradbury%20Software.opml

The OPML links for my forums feeds are displayed within the forum, but I should expose these on my feeds page, too.

[Anne]

Nick, using 'feed:' creates other problems, like not being able to access the file from browsers. MIME can be completely trusted. That Dave didn't add it to the specification is a mistake of RSS. Trying to fix it with this proposal isn't going to help a bit. Instead of advocating 'feed:', advocating people to use the correct MIME types for their feeds would probably help more.

Besides, ever heard of the LINK element? I believe that is probably the most useful way for pointing to feeds and is quite widely adopted and easy to implement.