I am starting a blog and notice that there are quite a few "feed"
places like Yahoo, Odeo, feedburner etc. Is there a way to
automatically update each time a new blog or video is put up?
I remember someone saying that you have to re-write the XML each time
there is an update.
Is that true? Is there an automated way of doing it?
I know these are a lot of newbie questions, so I hope you don't mind.

Thanks

Victory wrote:

> I am starting a blog and notice that there are quite a few "feed"
> places like Yahoo, Odeo, feedburner etc. Is there a way to
> automatically update each time a new blog or video is put up?
> I remember someone saying that you have to re-write the XML each time
> there is an update.
> Is that true? Is there an automated way of doing it?

If you're using Wordpress or Joomla, no problem, the updating will be done
automatically whenever you add an article. It's likely that there are other
content managements that do this as well.

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Victory <bionicbuddha@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am starting a blog and notice that there are quite a few "feed"
> places like Yahoo, Odeo, feedburner etc. Is there a way to
> automatically update each time a new blog or video is put up?
> I remember someone saying that you have to re-write the XML each time
> there is an update.
> Is that true? Is there an automated way of doing it?

Yes, and most blogging software (if not all) do this for you, often via
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/. Look for "blog pinging" in the documentation
of the software you're using (or use Google).

If the software you're using doesn't ping, check out:
<http://johnbokma.com/perl/ping-blog-via-xml-rpc.html>

--
John Bokma http://johnbokma.com/

How about video bloggin? Will it update the videos as well?


On Dec 28, 1:58 pm, John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> wrote:
> Victory <bionicbud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am starting a blog and notice that there are quite a few "feed"
> > places like Yahoo, Odeo, feedburner etc. Is there a way to
> > automatically update each time a new blog or video is put up?
> > I remember someone saying that you have to re-write the XML each time
> > there is an update.
> > Is that true? Is there an automated way of doing it?
>
> Yes, and most blogging software (if not all) do this for you, often viahttp://rpc.pingomatic.com/. Look for "blog pinging" in the documentation
> of the software you're using (or use Google).
>
> If the software you're using doesn't ping, check out:
> <http://johnbokma.com/perl/ping-blog-via-xml-rpc.html>
>
> --
> John Bokma http://johnbokma.com/